Professor Kourosh Kalantar Zadeh
Adjunct Professor
Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
- Kourosh Kalantar-Zadehis the Head of School of Chemicaland Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia.
- He is also an adjunctProfessor of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (°IJʹ), Australia, and an Honorary Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT, Australia. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO), °IJʹ
- Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is one of the 2018 Australian Research Centre (ARC) Laureate Fellows
- He is an Associate Editor forACS Applied Nano Materials
Phone
+61 2 938 54126
E-mail
Location
Science and Engineering Building (SEB), Room 534
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Re-discovering liquid metals from core to surface, K Kalantar-zadeh,ARC Laureate Fellowship, Fellow and leader,FL180100053, 2019, 5 years
- Ingestible capsules for sensing gut metabolites, K Kalantar-zadeh, P Gibson, J Muir, C McSweeney, Leader, NHMRC Development Grant, APP1154969,2 years
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies,M Fuhrer, A Hamilton , E Ostrovskaya, K Helmerson, X Wang, K Kalantar-zadeh, Q Bao, D Culcer, J Davis, M Davis, O Klochan, N Medhekar, M Parish, J Seidel, A Schiffrin, O Sushkov, N Valanoor, C Vale, L Wang, J. Cole,ARC Centre of Excellence, CE170100038,Chief Investigator, 2017,7 years
- Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS),2021
- Clarivate Analytics - Highly Cited Researchers, 2021
- Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 2020
- Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK,2020
- Clarivate Analytics - Highly Cited Researchers, 2020
- Royal Society of New South Wales, Walter Burfitt Prize, 2019
- Clarivate Analytics - Highly Cited Researchers, 2019
- The 12 most viewed LinkedIn profiles in Australia, LinkedIn Spotlight for Australia, 2019
- Clarivate Analytics - Highly Cited Researchers, 2018
- American Chemical Society (ACS), Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Awards (Asia/Pacific), 2018
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the area of Sensors (advanced career),2017
- Academic Sharp Brain, Chemeca 2017, Alan Finkel award (first award), 2017
- Finalist of the International AMA Sensorik und Messtechnik - AMA Innovation Award, 2016
- Media Star of the year, RMIT University, 2015
- Runner up of the Australian Academy of Sciences, Honorific Award in Engineering, 2014
- RMIT University Award for Research Excellence,2014
- RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision Excellence,2014
- International Media Star, RMIT University, 2012
- Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT), Australia, Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning,2011
- RMIT Foundation International Research Exchange Fellowship,2010
- Endeavour Australia Award (fellowship award for a six-month sabbatical), 2005
- Prof Kalantar-Zadeh hasbeen the co-author of >500highly cited reviewed scientific papers and books.He is internationally recognised for his work on sensors, two dimensional semiconductors and liquid metals.
- He is a member of the editorial boards of many prestigious journals including:Applied Materials Today, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Applied Surface Science, Nanoscaleand ACS Nano.
Media engagement:
My work has been constantly featured in Australian and international media (>350 in the past 5 years). Some of the most significant media releases and opinion pieces are as follows:
- Daily Mail, Researchers unveil radical 'fart sensor' pill that can monitor the gas inside your body in real-time, 23 January, 2019
- South China Morning Post, Smart paints to colour our world – capture energy and stay connected, 3 December 2018
- The Engineer, Australian nanofilter promises rapid access to clean water, 23 November, 2018
- BBC, Gas detecting pill could diagnose poor gut health, 23 January, 2018
- Newsweek, Scientists Invent Incredibly Thin Metal that can be Made in Your Kitchen, 20 October, 2017
- NBC, This Paint May Pick Up Where Solar Panels Leave Off, 28 June, 2017
- Herald Sun, Colonoscopies are a pain in the backside and could be replaced by a smart pill, 29 April, 2017
- The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Gut feeling: the swallowable gut sensor that could replace a colonoscopy, January, 2107
- Live Science, Can Eating Cinnamon Cool Off the Stomach? 5 October 2016
- Australian Science, Digestible Gas Sensors Diagnose Irritable Bowel, September, 2016
- IEEE Spectrum, Human Life is a Gas, 16 January 2016
- Christian Science Monitor, Smartphones could detect pollution, thanks to a sensor breakthrough, 27 October 2015
- The Companies and Markets, Global smart pills market researchers have begun developing a pill that measures intestinal gas, 30 April 2015
- Time Magazine, Gas-Sensing Pills May Detect Underlying Stomach Problems, 13 March 2015
- The Age, Aussie scientists' breakthrough could mean thinner, faster and lighter gadgets, 5 January 2013
- ABC Science, Boost in low-cost solar cell efficiency, 31 May 2012
- Australian Manufacturing Technology Magazine, One on one with Dr Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh, May 2012
- Scientific American, Unexpected discovery of new power sources, 13 February 2012
My Research Supervision
10 PhD students