Graeme Whyte

Dr Graeme Whyte joined Heriot-Watt University in 2014 as an Associate Professor. After obtaining his BSc in Physics from Glasgow University, he continued at Glasgow in the group of Miles Padgett and was awarded a PhD in 2007. In 2006, he moved to Cambridge University to work in the microdroplets group under Wilhelm Huck and Clemens Kaminski, developing novel microfluidic tools for the generation, manipulation and detection of microdroplets. After several years, he returned to physics, and in 2009 moved to the Physics of Medicine initiative within the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University under the supervision of Jochen Guck, where he used microfluidics and optics to investigate the mechanical properties of living cells. In 2012 he was awarded a Rising Star Junior Professorship at the Fredrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg where he led his own team developing new tools and techniques for probing deeper into living cells.