Rate My Professor Andrew Clulow

Andrew Clulow is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics at Monash University's Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He joined MIPS in June 2016 as an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow to lead the digestion team within the Boyd group, investigating the influence of lipid digestion on the fate of orally administered drug delivery vehicles. Previously, he served as a Departmental Visitor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University from February 2016 to February 2017 and as a MIPS Teaching Fellow. Currently, Clulow is the Senior Beamline Scientist on the BioSAXS beamline at the ANSTO Australian Synchrotron, part of the BRIGHT suite for structural analysis using small-angle X-ray scattering. His career has involved materials characterization across diverse systems, including explosives sensors, plastic solar cells, OLED displays, bioelectronic semiconductors, intestinal colloids, and digesting lipids, unified by structuring at molecular, aggregate, or thin-film levels probed via neutron, X-ray, and light scattering techniques.

Clulow's research specializes in milk lipids, lipid digestion, milk-based formulations for infant nutrition and medication, colloids and interfaces, and scattering methods. His DECRA fellowship focused on structuring in digesting milk fats, complex natural mixtures delivering lipophilic compounds like sterols and fat-soluble vitamins. He has authored 73 articles, 3 reviews, 1 book chapter, and 1 conference paper. Key publications include 'Lipidic drug delivery systems are responsive to the human microbiome' (Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025), 'Recent advances in studying crystallisation of mono- and di-glycerides at oil-water interfaces' (Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2024), 'A closer look at the behaviour of milk lipids during digestion' (Chemistry and Physics of Lipids, 2017), 'The impact of digestion is essential to the understanding of milk as a drug delivery system for poorly water soluble drugs' (Journal of Controlled Release, 2018), and 'Unambiguous detection of nitrated explosive vapours by fluorescence quenching of dendrimer films' (Nature Communications, 2015). Awards include the AOCS Health and Nutrition Division's 2020 New Investigator Research Award, Award for Research Impact (Economic and Social) in 2018, Brisbane Biological and Organic Chemistry Symposium Student Speaker Award in 2011, and Uniquest Trailblazer Award in 2009. He serves as Secretary of the Australian Neutron Beam User Group (ANBUG) since 2019 and Co-chair of the Australian Synchrotron Users Advisory Committee since 2018. His work supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy).