Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh (born in November 1971) is an Australian scientist involved in research in the fields of materials sciences,

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

, and

transducer A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another. Transducers are often employed at the boundaries of automation, measurement, and contr ...

s. He is best known for his works on

two-dimensional semiconductor A two-dimensional semiconductor (also known as 2D semiconductor) is a type of natural semiconductor with thicknesses on the atomic scale. Geim and Novoselov et al. initiated the field in 2004 when they reported a new semiconducting material graphene ...

s, ingestible sensors and

liquid metal A liquid metal is a metal or a metal alloy which is liquid at or near room temperature. The only stable liquid elemental metal at room temperature is Mercury (element), mercury (Hg), which is molten above −38.8 °C (234.3 K, −37.9&nbs ...

s. He led his group to the invention of an ingestible chemical sensor: human gas sensing capsule.

Career

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is a 2018

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) Laureate Fellow and a professor of engineering at

UNSW The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

, in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at

RMIT RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, scienc ...

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO) at UNSW. Kalantar-zadeh has coauthored over 450 highly cited research articles and reviews. In addition, he is a member of the

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s or

advisory board An advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation, organization, or foundation. The informal nature of an advisory board gives greater flexibility in structure and management compared to th ...

s of Applied Materials Today, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies,

Nanoscale (journal) ''Nanoscale'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering experimental and theoretical research in all areas of nanotechnology and nanoscience. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', ...

, Applied Surface Science and

ACS Nano ''ACS Nano'' is a monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal, first published in August 2007 by the American Chemical Society. The current editor in chief is Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University). The journal publishes original research ...

. Kalantar-zadeh is an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Nano Materials. He is also a Chief Investigator within the

ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies ARC may refer to: Business * Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s * Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services * ...

(FLEET) developing nanofabrication methods and 2D/novel materials for future electronics.

Awards and recognitions

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh has received many national and international awards for the recognition of his work on

sensors A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends ...

and

s. A selected few are listed as follows: * 2021 Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

* 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list * 2020 Fellow of the

Royal Society of New South Wales The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society. The Society was established as the Philosophical Society of Australasia on 27 June ...

*2020

Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, formerly called Boyle Medal, is a prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry for Analytical Chemistry. Not to be confused with the Irish Times Boyle Medal, also awarded in chemistry, or Boyle Higgins Gold ...

, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK * 2020 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list * 2019 Walter Burfitt Prize from the Royal Society of New South Wales * 2019 LinkedIn Spotlight for Australia * 2019 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list * 2018 American Chemical Society (ACS) Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award (Asia-Pacific region) * 2018 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list * 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow * 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award

References

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