Leslie Yeo's Biography

Leslie Yeo, Professor, RMIT University

Leslie Yeo is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Co-Director of the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at RMIT University, Australia. He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2002, for which he was awarded the Dudley Newitt prize for a computational/theoretical thesis of outstanding merit. Prior to joining RMIT University, he was a Mathematical Modeller at Det Norske Veritas UK and a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA, after which he held a faculty position at Monash University. Dr Yeo was the recipient of the 2007 Young Tall Poppy Science Award from the Australian Institute for Policy & Science ‘in recognition of the achievements of outstanding young researchers in the sciences including physical, biomedical, applied sciences, engineering and technology’, and both the Dean and Vice-Chancellor’s awards for excellence in early career research at Monash University. His work on microfluidics has been featured widely in the media, for example, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s science television program Catalyst, 3RRR radio broadcast, and in various articles in The Economist, New Scientist and The Washington Times, in addition to being highlighted in Nature and Science. Dr Yeo is co-author of the book Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidics & Nanofluidics (Cambridge University Press), and the author of over 150 research publications and 20 patent applications. He is also the Editor of the American Institute of Physics journal Biomicrofluidics, editorial board member of Interfacial Phenomena & Heat Transfer and Scientific Reports, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physiology at Monash University.