Dr David Wibowo is currently a Bioprocess Scientist in Pharma Services Group at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Australia).

Dr Wibowo was previously working as a Research Fellow at Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University (Australia). He is leading one of the new research avenues in the Centre for Cell Factories and Biopolymers within the Institute, focusing on the development of bio-based polyester particles as effective cancer delivery systems for drugs and vaccines. He also establishes collaborative research development in this area nationally and internationally.

Prior to Griffith, David was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland (Australia). In this role, David led efforts aimed at the large-scale production of silica nanocapsules that he co-invented and their utilities in an agricultural sector. He also actively contributed to broaden the applications of the nanocapsules as an emerging nanocarrier of chemotherapeutic drugs, and benchmarked their performances to other systems like liposomes and PLGA nanoparticles.

David received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Queensland in 2015. During his PhD, David co-authored a patent, which now covers Australia (granted), Europe, US, and Canada, that describes a sustainable dual-templating platform technology based on mineralizing biosurfactants for making core-shell silica nanoparticles (also called as nanocapsules).