Associate Professor Peter Lee Vee Sin
biographic details
Peter Lee obtained his BEng in Mechanical Engineering (1st Class Hons. 1991) and PhD (1996) in Bioengineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and continued his post-doc in the same university from 1996–1998. He was a Research Fellow with the Biomaterials Group at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore from 1998–2001. In 2001, he joined the Defence Medical and Environmental Research Institute, DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, as the Head of the Bioengineering Laboratory. He was appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor from 2002–2008 at the National University of Singapore, Division of Bioengineering. He joined University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in 2008, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011.
research interests
- Biomechanics - ability to predict and better understand the mechanism of injury, leading to effective prevention strategies. Research spans all three levels, the human, organs and cells. These investigations use human volunteers and computational models to advance our understanding of clinical symptoms, pathological evidence and injury. Computational studies include models to the human brain, head-neck, spine, knee and foot.
- Rehabilitation Engineering - Biomechanics for lower limb prostheses and orthoses; CAD/CAM and rapid prototyping methods for prosthetic socket manufacturing to improve artificial limb function and amputee acceptance; development of new materials and methods for low cost prostheses.
selected publications
- Yeow CH, Cheong CH, Ng KS, Lee PV, Goh JC. Anterior Cruciate Ligament Failure and Cartilage Damage During Knee Joint Compression. A Preliminary Study Based on the Porcine Model. Am J Sports Med. May: 36(5):934-42. 2008.
- Thambyah A, Shim VP, Chong LM, Lee VS. Impact-induced osteochondral fracture in the tibial plateau. Journal of Biomechanics. 41(6):1236-42. 2008.
- Shen F, Tay TE, Li JZ, Lee PVS, Chan HK, Modified Bilston nonlinear viscoelastic model for finite element head injury studies. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering – Transaction of the ASME, 128(5): 797-801, 2006
- VPW Shim, LM Yang, JF Liu, VS Lee. Characterisation of dynamic compressive mechanical properties of cancellous bone from the human cervical spine. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 32, 525-540. 2005.
- JCH Goh, PVS Lee, SL Toh, CK Ooi, Development of an integrated CAD–FEA process for below-knee prosthetic sockets. Clinical Biomechanics. Vol 20/6: 623-629. 2005.
- Ng HW, Teo EC, Lee VS. Statistical factorial analysis on the material property sensitivity of the mechanical responses of the C4-C6 under compression, anterior and posterior shear. Journal of Biomechanics, May: 37(5):771-7. 2004.
- JCH Goh, PVS Lee, SY Chong. Stump/socket Pressure Profile of the Pressure Cast (PCast) Prosthetic Socket. Clinical Biomechanics. 18(3): 237-243. 2003.
- T.S. Douglas, VSP Lee, WD Spence and S.E. Solomonidis. Automatic segmentation of MR images of the trans-femoral residual limb. Medical Enginering and Physics, 20, 756-763. 1998.
- VSP Lee, WD Spence and SE Solomonidis. Stump/socket interface pressure as an aid to socket design in prostheses for trans-femoral amputees - A preliminary study. Engineering in Medicine. Vol. 211, 167 - 180. 1997.