Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a multidisciplinary engineer and entrepreneur known for transformative contributions with real-world impact, including ingestible sensors, liquid metals, and atomically thin materials.
His groundbreaking innovations span several industries, including transparent conductive glass used in mobile phones with his colleagues, smart electronic windows for aircraft, and globally deployed hazardous gas sensors. He co-founded several companies, led his team to the development of the world’s first ingestible chemical sensors for medical diagnostics, and is also developing liquid metal-based greenhouse gas capture technologies.
Kalantar-Zadeh’s work extends beyond the lab with outreach, public engagement and mentorship. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His achievements earned him the prestigious Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science in 2020 and a place in the 2019 LinkedIn Spotlight for Science and Engineering in Australia.
Biography at time of election