Leonie van’t Hag

Dr Leonie van‘t Hag obtained her MSc degree in Physical Chemistry from Wageningen University & Research (NL) and PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Melbourne (AU) in 2017.

Leonie was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ETH Zurich (CH) for three years before starting as a Lecturer at Monash University in late 2019. The Hybrid Assembly Group focuses on the sustainable production and processing of soft materials. We do this by investigating the structure – property relationships for food, biological and biomedical applications using advanced scattering and microscopy techniques.

Dr van ‘t Hag is now a tenured Senior Lecturer (equivalent to early Associate Professor) and her work is placed at the interface of fundamental science and industrial applications that contribute to achieving sustainable development goals. This has led to participation as a CI in two ARC Research Hubs in 2022 – 2023 (RECARB & Value-Added Processing of Carbon Waste, 10M$ each) and one ARC Discovery Project on mRNA – lipid nanoparticle interactions in 2023.