Jasmine Castro
Email: jasmine.castro@unimelb.edu.au
Jasmine is an engineering postdoctoral fellow in the Downie Laboratory: Anterior Eye, Clinical Trials and Research Translation Unit at the University of Melbourne. She is a chemical engineer with experience in applied research and prototype development of microfluidic technologies. Jasmine completed her PhD studies in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Leslie Yeo, in the Micro-Nano Research Laboratory, at RMIT University, where her research focused on the development and optimisation of novel acoustically driven platforms. This work led to her being a co-inventor on patents for fertility assessment and droplet generation technologies.
Jasmine is passionate about research translation and the development of technologies with real-world impact. Her expertise spans the full prototype development cycle, from ideation and CAD design through precision microfabrication to prototype testing and validation. In recognition of her translational research focus, she was awarded the RMIT Research Translation Fellowship in 2025.
Currently, Jasmine is member of the ADMiER (Acoustically-Driven Microfluidic Extensional Rheometry) dry eye diagnostic team, a project that aims to develop a new technology to advance the clinical diagnosis and subtyping of dry eye disease.