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 Professor of Engineering at the University of Sydney. Previously, he served as the Head of School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a 2018 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and an adjunct professor of engineering at UNSW, in Sydney. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh was also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics at UNSW.Kalantar-zadeh has coauthored over 500 highly cited research articles and reviews. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards or advisory boards of Applied Materials Today, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale (journal), Applied Surface Science and ACS Nano. Kalantar-zadeh is an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Nano Materials.
He was 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:- 2026 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- 2025 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
- 2025 Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2025 Fellow of the Engineers Australia
- 2023 Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 2021 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales
- 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, 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 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award
- 2018 Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list
- 2018 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow
- 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award