Peter Lee

Professor Peter Lee is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne, where he also serves as Deputy Head of the department. He earned his BEng in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours in 1991 and his PhD in Bioengineering in 1996 from the University of Strathclyde in the UK, followed by postdoctoral research there. Before joining the University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in 2008, Professor Lee held several senior roles in Singapore: Research Fellow in the Biomaterials Group at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering from 1998 to 2001, Head of the Bioengineering Laboratory at the Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories from 2001, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Bioengineering at the National University of Singapore from 2002 to 2008. Currently, he directs the Australian Research Council Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies and is Chief Investigator in the ARC Training Centre for Personalised Therapeutic Technologies. His research specializations encompass biomechanics of the human body, organs, tissues, and cells; biomaterials; medical devices; and rehabilitation engineering. He utilizes computational models to study structures such as the brain, head-neck, spine, knee, pelvis, and foot, and investigates injury prevention mechanisms using human volunteers and models.

Professor Lee has authored over 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and books. He developed the titanium 3D-printed Melbourne Temporal Mandibular Joint prosthesis, which was commercialized in 2015 by Maxoniq (formerly OMX Solutions Pty Ltd) and implanted in more than 300 patients. Additionally, he created the Pressure Cast (PCAST) system, a portable method for producing low-cost prosthetic sockets requiring minimal technical skill. He leads Australia's largest industry-university-hospital partnership focused on orthopaedic and maxillofacial implants, training interdisciplinary engineers. Professor Lee contributes to the academic community as Associate Editor for Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Frontiers in Pharmacology's Translational Pharmacology section (Frontiers), and Deputy Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research (Springer Nature). He regularly serves as a reviewer for journals and funding bodies.

Professional Email: pvlee@unimelb.edu.au