Dr. Steven Neale

Position

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow

Address

Bioelectronics Research Centre
Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering
Rankine Building
Oakfield Avenue
The University of Glasgow  
G12 8LT

Telephone : 0141 330 5979
Office : 205, 80 Oakfield Avenue
Email : s.neale@elec.gla.ac.uk

Biography

Dr. Neale's research interests are in the use of electrical engineering techniques to create new tools for use in the life sciences.  More specifically research using micromanipulation techniques to place forces on biological samples in order to study their responses.  Using tools such as optical tweezers (OT), dielectrophoresis (DEP) and the recently developed Optoelectronic Tweezers (OET), which allows the DEP force to be light patterned, forces are placed on samples including blood borne parasites, red blood cells, cells from in vitro cell lines such as HeLa cells and structured inorganic micro and nanoparticles.

Dr. Neale took an M.Sci. in Physics at the University of St. Andrews.  He remained at St. Andrews to undertake a Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Thomas F. Krauss in collaboration with Professor Kishan Dholakia.  After completing his Ph.D. he spent a further year as a post doc in Professor Krauss's group before moving to UC Berkeley where he spent two years as a post doc with Professor Ming C Wu in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  In 2009 Dr. Neale was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship which he is currently undertaking with Professor Jon Cooper's Bioelectronics Research Group at The University of Glasgow.