ProfessorKourosh Kalantar Zadeh

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a Professor and Academic Lead at the University of Sydney who has the responsibility of Advising on High Impact Initiatives at the Faculty of Engineering. He is also one of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellows of 2018.

Prof Kalantar-Zadeh is an Adjunct Prof at the University of Newcastle and an Honorary Prof at RMIT.

Formerly Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh was a professor of Chemical Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia and prior to that was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of chemical engineering, materials sciences, electronics, and medical devices. He has co-authored >500 scientific papers and books and is also a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale and ACS Nano. He is also an Associate Editor for ACS Applied Nano Materials journal.

Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh has received many international awards including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement, 2018 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards and 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK. His name has also appeared in the Clarivate Analytics most highly cited list since 2018.