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Dr. Yee Lian Chew is a senior lecturer at Flinders University who studies nematode worms to identify brain pathways that can be targeted for the treatment of neurological conditions such as chronic pain. An early career academic, Chew earned her BSc (2010) and PhD (2015) from the University of Sydney. In 2015, she moved to Cambridge, UK, to study worms in colder weather at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She returned to Australia in 2019 as a teaching-research academic at the University of Wollongong and is currently a Mary Overton Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University.

Outside the joy of experiments, Chew is a budding science communicator. She has given public lectures at National Science Week, contributed to a children’s outreach program at the Cambridge Science Festival, recorded a podcast and filmed an Elevator Pitch for ABC Science. She was part of the 2021-2022 cohort of Superstars of STEM, a program run by Science & Technology Australia to promote the profile of women STEM professionals.