Distinguished Professor Leslie Yeo

Accomplishments and achievements

• 2019: RMIT University Distinguished Professorship – Awarded in recognition of sustained, outstanding research performance
• 2018: RMIT University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence – Awarded in recognition of an individual researcher who has achieved the highest level of excellence in their research activity for the preceding five years
• 2016: Johnson & Johnson World Without Disease Quickfire Challenge Award – Awarded for game-changing, early-stage innovation in the therapeutics, consumer, health technologies and medical device sectors
• 2015: RMIT University Innovation Excellence Award – Awarded in recognition of demonstrated excellence by academics in bringing innovation to their research activity in the preceding five years
• 2013-2017: Future Fellowship Level 3 – Awarded by the Australian Research Council to outstanding Australian and international mid-career researchers to promote research in areas of critical national importance.
• 2010: Eureka Prize for Early Career Research Finalist – Awarded by the Australian Museum for outstanding achievements in Australian research & innovation, science leadership, school science and science journalism & communication
• 2009-2013: Australian Research Fellowship (ARF) – Awarded by the Australian Research Council to postdoctoral researchers of exceptional promise to undertake research in Australia of national and international significance
• 2009: Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher – Awarded in recognition of research excellence by an early career researcher within ten years of the start of their research careers
• 2009: Monash University Faculty of Engineering Early Career Researcher Award – Awarded in recognition of research excellence by an early career researcher within ten years of the start of their research careers
• 2008: Eureka Prize People’s Choice Award Finalist – Awarded by the Australian Museum for outstanding achievements in Australian science and science promotion/communication
• 2007: Young Tall Poppy Science Award – Awarded by the Australian Institute of Policy & Science in recognition of the achievements of outstanding young researchers in science
• 2007: Fresh Science Finalist – For new and interesting research being done by early-career scientists in Australia
• 2002: Dudley Newitt Prize - Awarded by Imperial College London for theoretical/computational PhD thesis of outstanding merit
• 1999-2001: University of London Knight Studentship in Science & Engineering – Awarded by the University of London for support of doctoral studies
• 1998-2001: Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) – Awarded by the UK Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals for support of doctoral studies
• 2000: Society of Chemical Industry Messel Fund Bursary – Travel subsidy to the International Symposium on Multi-Phase Flow and Transport Phenomena in Antalya, Turkey
• 1999: Imperial College London Beit Fellowship (declined in lieu of Knight Studentship) – Awarded by Imperial College London in support of doctoral studies
• 1998: Henry Sawistowski Travel Fellowship – Awarded by Imperial College London in recognition of best undergraduate industrial link and research project

Selected Media Releases

•  Hybrid Sound Wave a ‘Game-Changer’ for Vaccines and Nebulisers. The Australian, 7 January 2016.
•  A Sound Idea for Treating Lung Disease. Chemistry World, 8 December 2015 (Royal Society of Chemistry).
•  Micro-motor Developed to Treat Strokes. ABC News, 24 July 2012 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
• Delivering Medicines, ABC Catalyst (Special Edition: Little Wonders – Medical Nanotechnology), Broadcast date: 25 August 2011 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
• Microfluidics Streamlines Laboratory Operations, SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Newsroom, 7 December 2010.
• Sound-Blasting Chips for On-the-Spot Forensics, New Scientist, 24 May 2010.
• Jet Stream, Nature Research Highlights 23 July 2009, Nature 460, 439 (2009).
• Squirting Water Without a Gun, Physical Review Focus, 13 July 2009 (American Physical Society).
• Physics of Pizza Tossing for Micro-Motors, Europhysics News, Vol 40, No 4, July-August 2009 (European Physical Society).
• Earthquake on a Wafer Could Boost Asthma Relief, New Scientist, 28 May 2009.
• Drug Delivery’s a Blast, Chemical Technology, 15 May 2009 (Royal Society of Chemistry).
• If Research is Your Cup of Tea, this Eureka Moment will Stir the Blood, The Age, 16 August 2008.
• Eureka Prize People’s Choice Award, ABC Catalyst, Broadcast date: 14 August 2008 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

More information 

• Personal website: http://www.leslieyeo.net

Leslie’s current research interests are in acoustically and electrokinetically driven microfluidics for engineering and biological applications such as drug delivery and nanomedicine, point-of-care diagnostics, tissue engineering and biosensor technology. 

• 2002: PhD (Chemical Engineering), DIC – Imperial College London
• 1998: MEng (Chemical Engineering), ACGI – Imperial College London

Professional activities

• Editor-in-Chief, Biomicrofluidics (American Institute of Physics)
• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
• Editorial Board Member, Interfacial Phenomena & Heat Transfer (Begell House)
• Chair - Journal Editor Search Committee for APL Bioengineering (American Institute of Physics)
  
• Research Evaluation Committee Member – Australian Research Council Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) 2015
• Assistant Chair – National Health & Medical Research Council Grant Review Panel (2014)
• Technical Review Panel Member – Science & Engineering Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Singapore (A*STAR) (2014)
• Grant Review Panel Member - National Health & Medical Research Council Development Grants (2016-2017)