The Lim Lab at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in Singapore designs transformational low-cost, high-accessibility medical diagnostics. We are a new research group opening in Semester 1 of 2026 (August/September 2026)!

Join us!

We are looking for founding adventurers at all levels (e.g., final year project undergraduates, Master’s students, PhD candidates, research staff). Success not guaranteed; scientific excitement inevitable. Sounds like you? See openings and contact information here.

Candidates that seek admission for the August 2026 start date should submit an application at the link here before 1 Dec 2025, and ideally as soon as possible.

Personal background

Daniel is an interdisciplinary applied physicist with a unique background in both life and physical sciences. He has research experience in mouse model studies of neurodegeneration, micro-optical device fabrication by harnessing surface tension, particle-laden computational fluid dynamics, neural network algorithmic tools for optimal design, nanoscale devices to control every degree of freedom in wavefronts, radiofrequency/ultrasound image reconstruction, and bioengineering for drug, protein, and gene delivery to cells.

Daniel’s undergraduate Physics degree is from the California Institute of Technology, with research mentorship from Prof. Sandra Troian in interfacial fluid dynamics and microfabrication. His doctoral work was with Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard University on structured darkness, metasurfaces, and photonic inverse design. His postdoctoral work is with Prof. Steven Chu at the Stanford University Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, supported by the Schmidt Science Fellowship. Daniel is grateful to be supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, having received the National Science Scholarship for both B.S. and Ph.D. studies.