Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering – Monash University
A/Prof Jess Frith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute. She completed her PhD at the University of York (UK) in 2009 before joining the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology to broaden her skillset across biomaterials and tissue-engineering. In 2013 she was awarded an ARC DECRA and in 2015 moved to Monash to establish her research group. Jess has been recognised as a Young Tall Poppy by the Australian Institute for Policy and Science (2017) and currently sits on the leadership committee for the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue-Engineering. Jess leads an interdisciplinary team of cell biologists and bioengineers, using engineering and biomaterials-based approaches to understand how stem cells respond to the physical world around them and then apply this to regenerate damaged body tissues. Collaborating within both academia and industry, her work spans fundamental stem cell mechanobiology as well as applications in tissue-engineering and regenerative medicine. She has expertise in mesenchymal stem cell biology, mechanotransduction and tissue engineering.