Kourosh Kalantar-zadehFRSN (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.[1]
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.[2] He is a 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow[3] and an adjunct professor of engineering at UNSW, in Sydney.[4] Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne.[5] Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh was also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO) at UNSW.[6]
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:
^Kalantar-Zadeh, Kourosh; Berean, Kyle J.; Ha, Nam; Chrimes, Adam F.; Xu, Kai; Grando, Danilla; Ou, Jian Zhen; Pillai, Naresh; Campbell, Jos L.; Brkljača, Robert; Taylor, Kirstin M.; Burgell, Rebecca E.; Yao, Chu K.; Ward, Stephanie A.; McSweeney, Chris S.; Muir, Jane G.; Gibson, Peter R. (8 January 2018). "A human pilot trial of ingestible electronic capsules capable of sensing different gases in the gut". Nature Electronics. 1: 79–87. doi:10.1038/s41928-017-0004-x. ISSN2520-1131. S2CID103121729.
