Reece Oosterbeek is an Associate Professor based in the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. He leads the Oosterbeek Lab, where his research spans a broad range of challenges across metamaterials and additive manufacturing for medical and sustainability applications. He is also a Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College, where he teaches a range of topics across mechanics and materials.
Prior to joining Oxford Reece was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, working on additively manufactured metallic lattice materials for orthopaedic implants. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, and Trinity College) thanks to a Woolf Fisher Scholarship (NZ), focusing on bioresorbable polymer-glass composites for cardiac stents. Originally from New Zealand, Reece obtained BE(Hons) and ME degrees in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland.
