First person – Christoph Bruns

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Christoph Bruns is first author on ‘ Cuticular microstructure of the locust femur-tibia joint’, published in BiO. Christoph is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Jan-Henning Dirks at Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany, investigating the mechanical properties and functional morphology of insect cuticle, with a particular focus on fatigue-induced microdamage and fracture behavior.