Harvard Med Sch/Mass General Hospital -Postdoctoral (Biomedicine)

Uni of St Andrews- PhD (Optics, Biophysics)

Nanyang Technological University - B.Eng w Hons (Electronics)

• Biological Physics
• Cell adhesion, migration, aggregation
• Fluid dynamics
• Optics
• Imaging

CV

Steve Lee is a tenured group leader at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University. He received his PhD in optics and biophysics from the University of St Andrews in 2010. In 2010-2012, he crossed discipline from physics to biomedicine at Harvard Medical School. Since 2013, he has been at the Australian National University, leading the establishment of research and teaching of biomedical imaging and optical biophysics at the ANU. His honours included Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award, Australian Eureka Prize (ANSTO Innovative Use of Technology), The Royal Society (UK) International Incoming Fellowship etc.

He heads the Optical BIofluidic Group (O-BIG) at JCSMR. His research seeks to unravel the complex dynamics of cell communities as they respond to extracellular cues (fluid forces, surface adhesion factors and 3D topology) using optical and fluidic technologies. His focus is to merge biophysical approaches to accelerate the production of biological tissue substitutes at scale. He concurrently serves as a Associate Editor at AIP Advances at American Institute of Physics (AIP), Scientific Director and co-Founder at Ability Optics Pty Ltd and Scientific Steering Committee (ACRF INCite).

• Deep technological expertise, international leadership in cross-disciplinary tool building (Optics, Biofluidic, Computing) that has resulted several industry-ready platform technologies that are being commercialised by Ability Optics Pty Ltd.
• Developing integrated imaging bioreactors that can monitor and
  produce micro-Avatar of Tissue (MAT) at scale.
• Other interests include developing optical tweezers for single-molecule force spectroscopy and pioneering new methods in volumetric imaging from molecular to whole animals scales