Monash University (Australia)

Faculty Member, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Australian Research Fellow & Associate Professor

Faculty of Engineering

About

Dr Leslie Yeo is an Australian Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Monash University, Australia. Together with Professor James Friend, he established the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory  shortly after joining the department as a Lecturer in 2005. This follows a postdoctoral stint at the Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics, University of Notre Dame in 2003/4 and industrial experience as a Mathematical Modeller at Det Norske Veritas in 2002/3. Leslie had previously completed his MEng and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London  in 1998 and 2002, respectively. His PhD thesis involved the theoretical investigation of Marangoni (surface tension gradient) driven drop coalescence dynamics and how it relates to phase inversion of liquid-liquid dispersions. For his work, Leslie was awarded the Dudley Newitt prize for a theoretical/computational thesis of outstanding merit. His PhD studies were supported through two awards, namely the Overseas Research Scholarship and the University of London  Knight Studentship in Science & Engineering. Leslie is the recipient of the 2007 Young Tall Poppy Science Award and both the 2009 Dean’s and Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Early Career Research. Leslie is co-author of the book Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidics and Nanofluidics published by Cambridge University Press and currently serves as the Editor of the American Institute of Physics journal Biomicrofluidics. His current research interests are in acoustically and electrokinetically driven microfluidics for engineering and biological applications.

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