Weiping Lu

Weiping Lu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics within the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. His research focuses on atomic/molecular optics and biophysics, particularly applying nonlinear optics to cold atom/molecule systems and developing advanced image processing algorithms for biological microscopy. He has held positions since 1988, including a Royal Society China Research Fellowship, and received the Makdougall-Brisbane Prize (1998) for contributions to nonlinear dynamics.

Education: PhD in Nonlinear Dynamics (Heriot-Watt, 1991), followed by postdoctoral work in optical systems. Research spans interdisciplinary areas including medical imaging innovations like super-resolution ultrasound techniques for cancer diagnostics and ischemia flow analysis.

• Key Projects: Prostate cancer microvascular mapping, in silico ultrasound modeling
• Collaborations: With biomedical engineers and biologists for image processing solutions

Recent work emphasizes translating optical physics principles into medical imaging breakthroughs, with 120+ publications and active grants in bioengineering applications.