Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh  (born in November 1971) 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 the Head of School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) 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 (CASLEO) 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 (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 and liquid metals. A selected few are listed as follows:


 * 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 (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