About
Apostolos (Lee) gained his first degree in ChemEng (MSc) with a Diploma in Biotechnology at the National Technical University of Athens (Ethnicon Metsoveion Polytechneion) for which he was awarded the Thomaidion prize.
He then moved to Scotland and the University of Strathclyde to carry out his doctoral studies on a BASF PhD studentship funded through the Centre of Excellence in Biocatalysis (University of Manchester), and supervised by Peter Halling (Strathclyde) and Sabine Flitsch (Manchester).
Following his PhD award, he undertook mandatory Greek national service and was stationed at the Army Chemical Laboratories (ELOT, ISO standardisation).
Lee then moved to Australia to work with Chris Easton at the Australian National University (RSC) on Industrial & Environmental Biocatalysis projects. These were funded primarily through the CSIRO Biofuels Cluster (Energy Transformed Flasgship) and the Grains Research & Development Corporation.
Since then he has expanded his research into the field of diagnostics for Health and Biosecurity and is currently CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellow at ANU.