Our people

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Staff members

Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow Kourosh Kalantar Zadeh
Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow
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Professor Michael Ferry
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Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow Kourosh Kalantar Zadeh
Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow
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Associate Professor Kristopher Alan Kilian, headshot
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Professor Tom Wu
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Scientia Lecturer Dorna Esrafilzadeh
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Dr Mohammad Bagher Ghasemian, headshot
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Dr Md Arifur Rahim, headshot
Adjunct Associate Lecturer
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PhD students

PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2014

BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, 2007

Research Fields:

Nano-materials synthesis and Characterization, Batteries, Electrochemistry, X-ray diffraction

Supervisors:

Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

E: r.abbasi@unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

B.E. in Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia (2019)

Research Fields:

Liquid Metals, Polymer, Nanomaterials

Supervisors: 

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Maricruz Saborio Gonzalez

E: Shengxiang.cai@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

B.Eng. (Electrical and Electronic), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Australia, 2018

Research Fields:

Embedded systems for wearable and ingestible sensor systems

Biography:

Michael Christoe is a first year Ph.D. student in the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW, Australia. He previously received his B.Eng. (Electrical and Electronic) from RMIT University, Australia in 2018. His research interests include implementation of embedded systems for small, low power, wireless sensor applications, as well as using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) for embedded applications requiring highly efficient computation.

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Jiong Yang

E: m.christoe@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

RMIT, Australia, BE. Electrical and Electronics (1st Honours) (2018)

Research Fields:

Exploring the surface and core properties of liquid metal

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Jianbo Tang

E: Jialuo.han@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) (Honours), RMIT University, Australia (2018)

Research Fields

Liquid Metals, Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Jianbo Tang

E: s.idrussaidi@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

Master’s degree in chemical and Petrochemical Engineering, Lebanese University-Faculty of Engineering (Branch I)

Research Fields:

Liquid metals and synthesis of environmentally-friendly materials

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. François Allioux

E: s.merhebi@unsw.edu.au

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Phd Student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

P.hD. candidate in Chemical Engineering (2020 – Present), University of New South Wales, Sydney (UNSW), Australia

M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Engineering (2015 – 2018), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

BSc in Chemical Engineering (2010 – 2015), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Research Fields:

Liquid Metals, Nano and 2D Materials, Electrochemistry, Topological insulator

Biography:

Maedehsadat Mousavi is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh at the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO), School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW. As part of her PhD studies, she is involved in investigating liquid metal-assisted synthesis and exploring the applications of topological insulators.

E: m.mousavi@unsw.edu.au

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PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

M.S. in Chemistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
B.S. in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, National University of Trujillo, Peru

Research Fields:

Liquid Metals, Polymer, Nanomaterials, Drug delivery

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

E: f.centurionrodriguez@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

B.E. in pharmaceutical engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China
M.E in applied chemistry, School of chemical and molecular engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, China

Research Fields:

Liquid Metals, Catalyst, Fluorescent probe

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Dorna Esrafilzadeh

E: Junma.tang@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Research Fields:

liquid metals, 2D-materials, perovskite solar cells, viologen

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
Dr. Jiong Yang

E: yifang.wang1@student.unsw.edu.a

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PhD student, Chemical Engineering

Education Profile:

M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2017)
B.S. in Pharmacy, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, China (2014)

Research Fields:

Liquid Metals, Polymer, Nanomaterials, Drug delivery

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh|
Dr. Jianbo Tang

E: chengchen.zhang@student.unsw.edu.au

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PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Education:

Ph.D student of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales.
MSc. in Analytical Chemistry, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, 2017.
BSc. in Applied Chemistry, Khaje Nasir University of Technology, Iran, 2015.

Research Fields:

Biosensors, sensors, microfluidics, material synthesis and characterization, electrochemistry, separation, and chromatography.

Supervisors:

Prof. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
A/Prof. Guozhen Liu
Prof. Ewa Magdalena Goldys

E: m.baharfar@unsw.edu.au

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Steering Committee

  • Chair: Prof. Stephen Foster, Acting Dean, UNSW Engineering
  • Co-chair (possible): Prof. Robert Burford, Former head of School of Chemical Eng at UNSW, Retired
  • Member: Prof. Xiaolin Wang, Director of the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), University of Wollongong
  • Member: Prof. Guangzhao Mao, Current head of the School of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, UNSW
  • Member: Prof. Paul Munro, Deputy Dean - Research, Faculty of Science, UNSW
  • Member: Prof. Francecsca Iacopi, School of Electrial and Computer Engineering, Former ARC Future Fellow, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) University Technology Sydney
  • Member: Prof. Cordelia Selomulya, Research & Commercialisation Director of the Future Food Systems CRC, also Prof of Chemical Eng. Former ARC Future Fellow, UNSW

External Expert Advisory Committee

  • Chair: Prof. Julie Cairney, The University of Sydney
  • Deputy Chair: Prof. Nick Birbilis, Australian National University
  • Member (Australian): Prof. Zaiping Guo, University of Wollongong, ARC Future Fellow
  • Member (Australian - Junior academic representative): Dr. Torben Daeneke, School of Chemical Engineering, RMIT
  • Member (Australian): Prof. Anthony O'Mullane, Queensland University of Technology, ARC Future Fellow
  • Member (overseas): Prof. Richard Kaner, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
  • Member (overseas): Prof. Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA

Management/Administrative Team

  • Education engagement officer: Dr. Jianbo Tang
  • Public and media engagement officer: Dr. Mohammad Ghasemian
  • Administrator: to be advertised

Commercialisation (consist of non-UNSW employees)

  • Chair: Dr. Shane Meaney, Commercial and Industry Engagement Advisory Committee; Knowledge Exchange, UNSW – Dr Meaney will organise the monthly meeting and help in attracting more commercial partners to officially join the centre of excellence bid in the next two years
  • Member: Ms Susmita Thomson, Chevron, Australia
  • Member: Mr. Paul Butler, UniSeed