Group members

We pride ourselves on providing good mentorship for young scientists, doing world-class science, and enjoying what we do! Interested in joining the group? Get in touch with us!

You can also learn more about Sydney and the university here.

Group leader
Assoc. Prof. Yu Heng Lau | link to University profile here

Postdoctoral researchers
Dr Lisa Alcock
Dr Taylor Szyszka

Research associates
Rezwan Siddiquee

PhD students
Eva Gao
Felicia Lie
Alex Loustau
Joshua Mills
Jiayi Shen
Sumyee Wu

Honours students
Glenn Stewart (co-supervised with Dr Cassandra Fleming)

Alumni
Tiancheng Huang (PhD 2025, Honours 2020) | Next post: Research Scientist @ Insamo South
Haritha Krishna Sudhakar (PhD 2025)
Eric Jenner (PhD 2025, Honours 2019)
Leandra Impelmann (DAAD visiting student 2024)
Lovisa Blix (visiting Masters student 2024)
Lior Yoffe (Denison summer scholar 2024)
Dr Lachlan Adamson (PhD 2023, Honours 2018) | Next post: Postdoc with Dr Matthew Doyle, USyd
Jackie Yau (Honours 2023) | Next post: Research scientist @ NSW Government
Dr Reginald Young (PhD 2023, Honours 2018) | Next post: Research scientist @ CSIRO Canberra
Marina Schreidl (DAAD visiting student 2023)
Michael Lin (Denison summer scholar 2023)
James Luong (Honours 2022) | Next post: Defence Science and Technology Group
Sophia You (Summer scholar 2020; Honours 2022) | Next post: Patient Serices Officer, GenesisCare
Mai Nielsen (Dalyell student 2022)
Chan Li (Undergraduate volunteer 2022) | Next post: Undergraduate @ Imperial College, UK
Nuren Tasneem (MPhil 2022, Summer scholar/TSP student 2019) | Next post: Synthetic Biology Scientist @ Nourish Ingredients
Anthea Ford (Denison summer scholar 2022) | Next post: Honours with Dr Shelley Wickham, USyd
Erekle Kobakhidze (Dalyell student 2021) | Next post: Honours with Prof. Joel Mackay, USyd
Luke Schulz (Dalyell student 2021) | Next post: Honours with Dr Xuyu Liu, USyd
Quynh Ngoc Vu (Graduate researcher 2019-2021) | Next post: Scientist @ Ryvu Therapeutics, Poland
Oliver Liang (Summer scholar 2020) | Next post: PhD with Prof. John Rasko, Centenary Institute
Rishik Bhandary (Honours 2019) | Next post: Masters in Data Science, USyd
Annmaree Kenny (DL student 2019) | Next post: Project Scientist @ National Measurement Institute
Suleka Hersi (Summer scholar 2019)
Joanna Huang (Summer scholar 2019)
Paris Jeffcoat (Honours 2018) | Next post: PhD with Prof. Liz New, USyd
Erin Humphries (TSP student 2018) | Next post: Researcher @ ProCan, Children's Medical Research Institute
Lucy Jimenez (TSP student 2018)
Chuyang Zhang (Nanjing visiting student 2018)
Oliver Rathje (Summer scholar/volunteer 2018) | Next post: PhD with Prof. Rich Payne, USyd
Michael Liu (Summer scholar/TSP student 2018) | Next post: Medical student, USyd