Rate My Professor David Inglis

Dr. David Inglis is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, affiliated with the Macquarie University BioFocus Research Centre and MQ Photonics Research Centre. He is a founding member of the Biomedical Microdevices Group. Inglis earned a BSc in Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta in 2001 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. He held an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Physics Department at Macquarie University from 2008 to 2011 before advancing to his current position. His career includes contributions to 41 research projects, with 10 active, such as "Liquid biopsy analysis towards advanced cancer diagnosis and management," "Complete blood fractionation using a low-cost microfluidic system," and "Miniaturized Flow Sensor for Intravenous Therapy Application." These projects underscore his role in advancing biomedical technologies through microfabrication.

Inglis's research centers on microfabrication for medicine and biology, including deterministic lateral displacement separations, particle separation techniques, electro-hydrodynamics, photonics, microfluidics for high-throughput bioparticle sorting (blood cells, stem cells, plasma, microbes, fungi, and rare cells in complex mixtures), nanofluidics for protein concentration and separation, and fluorescence profiling in biology. He has produced 64 articles, 12 conference proceedings, 8 reviews, and 3 abstracts, amassing over 3,600 citations. Key publications include "Deterministic Lateral Displacement - Challenges and Perspectives" (ACS Nano, 2020), "A Review of Capillary Pressure Control Valves in Microfluidics" (Biosensors, 2021), "The fluidic resistance of an array of obstacles and a method for improving boundaries in Deterministic Lateral Displacement arrays" (Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2020), "Hydrodynamic particle focusing enhanced by femtosecond laser deep grooving at low Reynolds numbers" (Scientific Reports, 2021), "Shape-based separation of drug-treated Escherichia coli using viscoelastic microfluidics" (Lab on a Chip, 2022), "Directed evolution of biofilm production using double emulsion droplets" (Biomicrofluidics, 2026), and "Sorting nanoparticles by their optical absorption" (Applied Physics Letters, 2026). His work has significantly impacted microfluidic separations and biomedical device development.