Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh


Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian scientist involved in research in the fields of materials sciences, electronics, and transducers. He is best known for his works on two-dimensional semiconductors, ingestible sensors and liquid metals. 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 Laureate Fellow and a Professor of Engineering at UNSW, in Sydney. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics at UNSW.
Kalantar-zadeh has coauthored over 425 research articles and reviews, which have been cited >30,000 times, giving him an h-index of >80. In addition, Kalantar-zadeh is a member of the editorial boards of Applied Materials Today, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nano-Micro Letters, and ACS Nano.
He is also a Chief Investigator within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies 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 and liquid metals. A selected few are listed as follows: