TEAM AND COLLABORATORS

Danne Ojeda is an Associate Professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Danne has long-standing experience in academia. She has published, lectured on and curated exhibitions related to contemporary art and design.
In 2003, she founded d-file studio in Amsterdam—a platform for concept and project development in the areas of visual art, design and theory—from which she has mainly worked for and collaborated with cultural institutions that include the Singapore Art Museum (SAM), the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico, among others.
Her design works have been internationally recognized with the Chicago Athenaeum—Good Design Awards (US), the German Design Award, German Design Council (DE), Red Dot Design Award: Communication Design (DE), iF International Forum Design Award (DE), the ‘Lorenzo Il Magnifico’ International Award— Florence Art/Design Biennale (IT), A’ (A-PRIME) Design Award (IT), the International Design Award, IDA (US), Art Books Wanted International Award (CZ, FR), among others. Her complete publication and exhibition design oeuvre commissioned by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) was awarded Asia’s Top Designers Award, Singapore Design Award 2014.
Danne Ojeda is the Principal Investigator and founder of the research and pedagogical platform D-Sign-Lab.

Tan Meng How is an Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Deputy Director (Undergraduate) and REP Fellow, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB).
Dr. Meng How Tan received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and B.A. degree in economics from University of California - Berkeley, his M.S. degree in aeronautics from California Institute of Technology, his M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from NTU, and his Ph.D. in developmental biology from Stanford University. He then performed postdoctoral research at Stanford University with Jin Billy Li, Mylene Yao, and Wing Hung Wong. Subsequently, he joined NTU as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and was promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. He was previously Associate Chair (Students & Continuing Education) in the School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CCEB) and is currently Deputy Director (Undergraduate) of the Renaissance Engineering Programme (REP), one of the Premier Scholars Programmes in NTU. His laboratory works actively in the field of nucleic acid editing. To date, he has published multiple papers in top academic journals, such as Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Chemical Biology, and Nature Communications. He received the Outstanding Young Principal Investigator Award from The American Institute of Chemical Engineers – Singapore Local Section (AIChE-SLS) in 2019 and was named an EMBO Global Investigator in 2020.

Luo Dahai is an Associate Professor, Infection and Immunity, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
Dr. Luo Dahai obtained his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 2006 and completed his Ph.D. in 2010, both from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research from 2010 to 2013 at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Yale University, USA. He returned to NTU as a Nanyang Assistant Professor at LKCMedicine, where he served from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, he was promoted to Associate Professor, a position he currently holds at LKCMedicine, NTU, Singapore.

Tan Howe Siang is an Associate Professor in the Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research group focuses first on Ultrafast Energy Transfer Pathways in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes. The ultimate energy source of plant and animal kingdoms, and the world’s carbon economy is based on the photosynthetic processes in higher plant. In plant photosynthesis, light from the sun is collected by light-harvesting arrays in plant cells and channelled to reaction centres where solar energy is converted to chemical energy to be stored and transported. Light harvesting array complexes are made up of numerous coupled chlorophyll molecules. These chlorophyll molecules get photoexcited and the excitation energy is then transferred onwards to the reaction centre. This ‘funnelling’ process is highly complex, efficient and ultrafast. For example the LHCII complex, ubiquitous in higher plants, consist of 14 chlorophyll a and b molecules and the energy transfer process happens between these molecules in a matter of femto- to picoseconds.
Secondly, Tan Howe Siang’s research group focuses on the Coherent Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy: Technique Development. Multidimensional optical spectroscopy is the optical analogue of multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy such as COSY and NOESY. The femtosecond time resolution of ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows experimentalists to look at structural fluctuations of molecular systems and other processes at a much higher time resolution than NMR spectroscopy.
Howe Siang is a collaborator since 2019.

Poh Chueh Loo is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, NUS, as part of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Poh collaborated with D-Sign-Lab from 2013 to 2016 in the context of the Ministry of Education supported research and pedagogical project ‘D-SIGN-LAB. Research Experiments on Art, Design and Science with a focus on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Analysis’.
Poh Chueh Loo’s Engineering Biology research group at NUS focuses on Synthetic Biology to address challenges in different areas including healthcare and the environment. He applies engineering principles to design and build microbes with useful capabilities for medical and industrial applications and develops foundational platform tools to accelerate the design and engineering of the microbes. This includes synthetic gene circuits design and automation, modelling of biological systems, and computer-aided design tools for SynBio. His research group has been ‘reprogramming’ microbes to tackle metabolic diseases, to fight infectious causing pathogens and to control biofilm formation. Their motivation is to make the engineering of biology more efficient and predictive so that we can scale complexity in order to create novel solutions to tackle global challenges.