Rate My Professor Toby Bell

Bell earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2002 in the Ghiggino group, where he studied energy and electron transfer in porphyrin-based donor-acceptor compounds. Subsequently, he completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Germany, followed by a two-year postdoctoral position at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium with the De Schryver–Van der Auweraer Hofkens group, examining photophysical phenomena in single molecules. In 2006, he returned to the University of Melbourne as a Centenary Research Fellow, and in 2009, he was appointed to the Faculty of Science at Monash University. Bell has received Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards in 2017 from both the Faculty of Science and the university. Key publications include “Pediatric glioma histone H3.3 K27M/G34R mutations drive abnormalities in PML nuclear bodies” (Genome Biology, 2023), “Structural insights into the multifunctionality of rabies virus P3 protein” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023), “Fluorescence modulation of pyridinium betaines: a mechanofluorochromic investigation” (Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2024), “Design of polarity-dependent immunosensors based on the structural analysis of engineered antibodies” (ACS Chemical Biology, 2023), and “Live-Cell SOFI Correlation with SMLM and AFM Imaging” (ACS Bio & Med Chem Au, 2023).