Rate My Professor Chen Lim

Dr. Su Chen Lim is a microbiologist currently serving as Postdoctoral Research Associate and Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Western Australia. She completed her PhD in Microbiology at UWA in 2019, with a thesis titled 'Sources and potential transmission of Clostridium difficile in the community of Western Australia.' Her earlier qualifications include a Master of Infectious Diseases and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science, both obtained from UWA. Additionally, she holds an Adjunct Lecturer position in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University.

Su Chen Lim's research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, with particular emphasis on the One Health aspects of Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile), investigating transmission between animals, humans, and the environment. She has authored 14 refereed journal articles, achieving an h-index of 9 and over 420 citations. Key publications include her PhD thesis (2019), 'Antimicrobial Resistance of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in Cambodia' (Antibiotics, 2025), 'Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in children and adolescents in the community in Cambodia' (Anaerobe, 2025), 'Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile in hospitalised children in Cambodia' (Anaerobe, 2025), 'Clostridioides difficile in Australian dairy farms' (Anaerobe, 2025), and 'High prevalence of Clostridioides difficile in retail garden products from two Australian states' (Anaerobe, 2025). Her findings have supported major grants, including the WA Department of Health Research Translation Grant (approximately $270,000 in 2018) and an NHMRC Ideas Grant ($1.3 million in 2021). Lim has received notable awards such as the Best Poster Award at the 47th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Society for Microbiology (2019), the Australian Society for Microbiology Branch Travel Award (2017), and travel awards for the 15th Biennial Congress of the Anaerobe Society of the Americas (2020) and the 30th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2020). She contributes significantly to professional communities as Treasurer of the Australian Society of Microbiology WA Branch (2023–present) and West Coast Microbiome Network, Committee Member of UWA Women in Science Community of Practice (since 2023) and Safety and Health at UWA School of Biomedical Sciences (2024–present), and former Co-chair and Founder of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society WA Branch (2018–2020). Currently, she works on an NHMRC-funded cross-disciplinary project developing system dynamics models to identify interventions for reducing C. difficile incidence and evaluating their economic impact.