Distinguished Professor Leslie Yeo
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Micro Nano Research Laboratory
Email: leslie.yeo@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 2596
Campus: Melbourne City
Micro Nano Research Laboratory
Email: leslie.yeo@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 2596
Campus: Melbourne City
Leslie 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, 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 commenced a faculty position at Monash University. In addition, he has also held the Australian Research Fellowship and Australian Research Council Future Fellowship from 2009 to 2017.
Leslie 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’, both the Dean’s and Vice-Chancellor’s awards for excellence in early career research at Monash University, and the Vice-Chancellor’s award for research excellence as well as the university’s award for research innovation at RMIT. His work on microfluidics has been featured widely in the media, for example, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s science television program Catalyst, 3RRR and SBS radio broadcasts, and in various articles in The Economist, New Scientist and The Washington Times, in addition to being highlighted in Nature and Science.
Leslie is co-author of the book Electrokinetically Driven Microfluidics & Nanofluidics (Cambridge University Press), and the author of over 250 research publications and 25 patent applications. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the American Institute of Physics journal Biomicrofluidics and an editorial board member of Interfacial Phenomena & Heat Transfer, Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology, Biosensors and Micro.
Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling (Det Norske Veritas UK)
Besides uncovering and clarifying new fundamental physicochemical microscale and nanoscale phenomena, Leslie’s current research interests are centered around the development of acoustomicrofluidic technologies for diverse applications. These applications span nanomedicine and drug delivery, biosensing and point-of-care diagnostics, biomaterials and tissue engineering, and the synthesis and electronic manipulation of novel nanomaterials.
Microfluidics, Acoustics, Nanomaterials, Drug and gene delivery, Sonochemistry, Mechanobiology
Publications
Funding
Awards
Nature Communications 10, 2282
H Ahmed, AR Rezk, JJ Richardson, LK Macreadie, R Babarao, ELH Mayes, L Lee, LY Yeo. (2019).
Advanced Materials 28, 1970–1975.
AR Rezk, JK Tan, LY Yeo. (2016).
Nature Communications 3, 1167
AR Rezk, O Manor, JR Friend, LY Yeo. (2012).
LY Yeo, RV Craster, OK Matar (2003). Marangoni Instability of a Thin Liquid Film Resting on a Locally Heated Horizontal Wall. Physical Review E 67, 056315.
Award date: 2018
Recipients: Leslie Yeo
Award date: 2016
Recipients: Leslie Yeo
Award date: 2007
Recipients: Leslie Yeo
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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