WEI-LUN HSU

I am a chemical engineer with expertise in simulating electrokineitc phenomana in Lab-on-a-Chip devices. I received my BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University where I worked on diffusiophoretic behaviour of biomolecular particles in electrolyte solutions in 2007 and 2009, respectively. My MS thesis was the winner of the dissertation award from Chinese Chemical Society, Taiwan in 2009. I started my PhD at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne in 2011 after finishing my one year compulsory military service in Taiwan. My PhD research focus was on electrokinetics of the silica and electrolyte interface with application to protein focusing and separation in a nanofluidic channel. In 2013, I visited the University of Tokyo to investigate the viscoelectric effect due to water polarisation in electric double layers via molecular dynamics. I am now completing my PhD, and expected to obtain my degree in March 2015.