Professor Cameron Brown
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Biography
Professor Cameron BrownChair, Biomedical Engineering
Director, Medical Engineering Research Facility
Head, Photonics and Mechanics of Biomedical Materials
Queensland University of Technology
Associate Honorary Professor
University of Oxford
Cameron Brown's research interest and expertise is in the structure-property-function relationships in biomedical materials and systems. As Director of QUT’s Medical Engineering Research Facility, he is actively involved the development and translation of frontier technologies to medicine.
Professor Brown studied at QUT in Brisbane, Australia, and was awarded the University’s Outstanding Thesis prize for his PhD in 2008. He then joined the Italy-Québéc Joint Laboratory in Nanostructured Materials for Energy, Catalysis and Biomedical Applications, working in Rome and Montreal. As a FRSQ Fellow, he led an investigation into spider silk nanomechanics, particularly toughening mechanisms related to protein-water interactions, protein distribution and fibril interactions. In addition to its outstanding mechanical properties, the green chemistry and scalability of spider silk synthesis provide an excellent biomimetic target for the development of biomaterials and other high performance fibre-based materials.
From 2010 to 2017 he worked at the Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford most recently as Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Materials. Supported by an ARUK Career Development Fellowship and a NIHR-BRC Senior Fellowship he set up and led the Photonics, Mechanics and Modelling of Biomedical Materials Group. In this time he was also the Oxford lead for the Marie Curie skelGEN Project, the image analysis lead for the 7-Tesla MSK Imaging Programme, and the engineering lead for the ARUK Experimental Osteoarthritis Treatment Centre.
Recently returned to Australia, Professor Brown is currently setting up a new programme of basic research in the physics and engineering of biomedical materials, and working to build an institute for future medicine at QUT and the Prince Charles Hospital.
Personal details
Positions
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Director, MERF
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering
Research field
Biomedical Engineering, Other Physical Sciences
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Medical) (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Cameron, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).