Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
ARC Laureate Fellows and Professor, University of New South Wales
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW and one of the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows of 2018. He is also the director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid-based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO), at UNSW and a chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence of Future Low- Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET). Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of electronics, materials sciences and sensors, and has co-authored of >450 scientific papers and books. He is also a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Applied Nano Materials (associate editor), ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale, Applied Materials Today, Applied Surface Science and ACS Nano. Kalantar-Zadeh 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 (now called Atmo capsule). He has received many international awards including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement, the 2018 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards and the 2020 Robert Boyle Prize of RSC. He also appeared in Clarivate Analytics most highly cited list since 2018.