Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
Congratulations to FLEET’s Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh — named an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow today.
Kourosh’s significant influences in engineering include two-dimensional (2D) transition metal compounds, liquid metals, microfluidics, sensors, electronic devices and medical systems.
He is an expert in chemical and biochemical sensors, nanotechnology, microsystems, materials science, electronics, gastroenterology, medical devices and microfluidics, and has made internationally-recognised contributions to the development of ingestible sensors and gas pollutant detectors, 2D semiconductors and liquid-metal based systems.
Kourosh’s ARC laureate fellowship will make new discoveries on the unique properties of liquid metals, whose extraordinary physical and chemical properties create great untapped potential. The project will support development of future applications in electronics, optics, catalysts, thermal devices and bio systems.
Distinguished Professor Kourash Kalantar-Zadeh is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW and Professor of Engineering at RMIT University.
He is a Chief Investigator at FLEET, where he develops novel 2D semiconducting materials, through theory, synthesis, and characterisation. His team also develops the fabrication techniques necessary for advanced devices, using electron and ion beam lithography and other tools for FLEET’s Enabling Technology Theme B.
FLEET (the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies) is a collaboration of over 100 researchers working to develop a new generation of ultra-low energy electronics, in order to meet the challenge of energy use in computation.
Professor Kalantar-zadeh was the inaugural recipient of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s Alan Finkel award (2017), and recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award (2017) and the American Chemical Society’s Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards (2018).
Contact Prof Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh k.kalantar-zadeh@unsw.edu.au
