Justin Cooper-White

Professor Justin Cooper-White is a global leader in using engineering to solve problems in biology. In addition to holding the position of Head of School and Professor of Bioengineering in the School of Chemical Engineering, he is Affiliate Professor in the AIBN, Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility-Queensland Node, Research Director of the Herston Biofabrication Institute (a partnership between UQ and MNHHS) and co-Director of the Australian Organoid Facility at UQ. Professor Cooper-White is a past President of both the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering and the Australian Society of Rheology and held the position of CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive (OCE) Science Leader. He has previously held a Visiting Professor Fellowships at ETH Zurich (2007) and Politecnico di Milano (2012-2013). Professor Cooper-White is the Australian representative and Past President of the Asian Biomaterials Federation; an elected Fellow of and Australian representative on the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBE), and an elected Fellow and past vice President of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Cooper-White has many past and currently active international collaborations with world leading research groups at MIT (US); Stanford (USA); ETH (Switzerland); EPFL (Switzerland); SNU (Korea); University Of Grenoble (France); Politecnico di Milano (Italy); UCL (UK); and the Max Planck Institute (Germany). He has performed contract research and consultancy work for many multinational companies, including Unilever in the UK; Nestle International, Switzerland; Rhodia, US; Inion, Finland, Syngenta, UK; and NuFarm, AU since 2001. He is the Editor-in-Chief of APL Bioengineering (American Institute of Physics Publishing); serves or has served on the editorial boards of Rheological Acta, Soft Materials, Biomicrofluidics and the Open Biomedical Engineering Journal; and is a reviewer of major international journals, including Nature Materials, Nature Methods, Advanced Materials, Lab on a Chip, Stem Cells, Stem Cells and Development, Biomacromolecules, Tissue Engineering, Langmuir, Biomaterials and Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. Biomedical engineering, Engineering, Macromolecular and materials chemistry

[2026] Mechanical behaviour of an optimised novel Ti6Al4V lattice structure fabricated via LPBF: “An experimental and FEA investigation”. Singh, Kirandeep, Liang, Guofang, Tetsworth, Kevin, Cooper-White, Justin, Erbulut, Deniz U. and Zhang, Mingxing (2026). Mechanical behaviour of an optimised novel Ti6Al4V lattice structure fabricated via LPBF: “An experimental and FEA investigation”. European Journal of Mechanics A - Solids, 117 106017, 106017. doi: 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2026.106017 [2025] Protocol for tendon stem/progenitor cell isolation from human tendon tissue. Michelena-Tupiza, Stephanie, Parulekar, Asawari, Shemshad, Sepideh, Bolle, Eleonore, Shuker, Tristan, Cutbush, Kenneth, Grøndahl, Lisbeth and Cooper-White, Justin (2025). Protocol for tendon stem/progenitor cell isolation from