Dr Mathias Foo
Background
"I am currently an Associate Professor in Control and Engineering Biology, in the School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK. I obtained my PhD degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia in 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Erik Weyer, where I worked on modelling and control design of river systems. Prior joining University of Warwick, I was an Assistant Professor in Control Engineering at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Coventry University, UK from 2018-2021, I was a Research Fellow in Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre (WISB), School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK, in the research group of Prof. Declan Bates. from 2015-2018. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP) in Pohang, South Korea from 2012-2015, in the research group of Dr. Pan-Jun Kim. I was a tutor/lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University, Malaysia from 2002-2007."
Research Interests
My primary research interests are dynamical systems modelling and control of biological system. I have mostly studied on plant gene regulatory network and my research mainly focuses on application of engineering design principles for synthetic biology application to improve crop productivity.