Shengrong Du, Ph.D.

• Oversee daily laboratory operations to ensure efficiency and compliance with safety standards. • Develop, implement, and enforce laboratory policies, procedures, and protocols. • Maintain and manage laboratory equipment, ensuring calibration, maintenance, and troubleshooting as needed. • Prepare and update risk assessments (RAs), standard operating procedures (SOPs), and safe work instructions (SWIs). • Ensure all experiments and processes comply with industry standards and regulations. • Commission and validate new instruments and laboratory workflows. • Interpret experimental data and generate comprehensive technical reports as required. • Supervise and mentor laboratory staff, fostering a culture of safety and continuous improvement. • Train staff on laboratory techniques, equipment usage, and safety protocols. • Assign tasks and manage workload distribution to optimise productivity. • Coordinate cross-functional collaboration between different departments. • Liaise with external suppliers, vendors, and service providers for equipment procurement and maintenance. • Communicate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment on laboratory testing goals and deliverables. • Develop and implement quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) protocols.

• Improved laboratory efficiency by streamlining sample collection, processing procedures, and reporting systems. • Ensured successful research outcomes through precise data analysis and interpretation, providing valuable insights to internal stakeholders. • Conducted routine quality control checks to ensure the accuracy of test results and uphold laboratory standards. • Investigated and tested new products from external clients, delivering detailed results and professional recommendations. • Troubleshot equipment malfunctions, minimising downtime, and maintaining optimal functionality. • Assisted in commissioning new equipment into the laboratory. • Developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for both existing and new equipment in compliance with ASTM and ISO standards. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including production, engineering, marketing, and management, to address quality issues, implement process improvements, and support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance overall laboratory and production performance. • Maintained a safe and organised laboratory environment, strictly adhering to safety protocols.

• Led more than 20 engineers to launch and execute R&D projects to develop new 3D printing technologies. • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives. • Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution. • Allocated tasks to different engineers, such as software engineers, electrical engineers, material engineers, etc. • Monitored project performance and analysed project performance data to identify areas of improvement. • Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in case of delays. • Coordinated cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks. • Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables. • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating contractors. • Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines. • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules, and conflicts. • Reported regularly to managers on project budgets, progress, and technical issues.

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members to accomplish animal study research goals using highly porous 3D-printed polymer scaffolds developed from PhD studies and mouse cranial critical size defect surgery models from collaborators. • Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design, and execution to address defined problems. • Maintained accurate records of research findings and provided statistical analysis of data. • Attended research seminars and meetings to discover and discuss new technologies and research. • Liaised with supervisor to develop potential publications. • Enforced laboratory safety protocols and enabled a safe work environment.

Worked as a demonstrator to assist Prof. Neil Cameron and Dr. Yunlong Tang with a unit (MTE5887 - additive manufacturing of polymeric and functional materials) and helped with assignment marking.

Worked as a demonstrator to assist A/Prof. Noel Rutter with a unit (MTE2541 - crystal structures, thermodynamics, and phase equilibria), and helped students with practical experiments on metallic sample preparation and optical microscopy observation.

• Managed and completed three projects which were designed to optimise different biomaterials for different 3D printing technologies. • Mastered a broad range of characterisation methods related to 3D-printed polymer scaffolds and associated morphological, mechanical, chemical, and biological aspects, including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), mercury porosimetry, mechanical testing, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), in vitro evaluation in mammalian cell culture, etc. • Collaborated with Dr. Dr. Oliver Bissinger in Germany to conduct the animal study for 3D-printed PCL scaffolds using a mouse mandible critical size defect model.

Learned knowledge of different materials, including metals, polymers, ceramics, nanomaterials, etc. Final year project: Gold Nanowire-Incorporated Porous Materials for Wearable Technology Applications Supervisors: Prof. Neil Cameron and Prof. Wenlong Cheng

Learned fundamental knowledge of science in the first two years of undergraduate study, including Advanced Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Inorganic/Organic/Analytic/Physical Chemistry, Mechanical Design, etc.