[9] He is also the founder of the Research Centre for Psychology at Queen Mary University of London,[1] where he is a Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology.
[1][2][5] He developed perceptual models of animal colour vision, allowing the derivation of optimal receiver systems as well as a quantification of the evolutionary pressures shaping flower signals.
[12] Two music videos were published; “I stung Gwyneth Paltrow” [13] referred to the pseudoscientific method of bee stings as a treatment for minor skin conditions, as advocated by the actress.
[14] The video for “The Beekeeper’s Dream” used footage from David Blair's 1991 surrealist film "Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees".
[16][17][18][19] Chittka and Walker explained that they used “this unconventional approach in the hope to raise awareness for between-species differences in visual perception, and to provoke thinking about the implications of biology in human aesthetics and the relationship between object representation and its biological connotations.”[16] Data collected by Chittka's team on the life-long radar-tracking of individual bumblebees' flights[20] formed the basis for artwork by Lucy Pullen which was on display at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics from 2018-2020.