STAFF PROFILE
Professor Madhu Bhaskaran
Position:
Associate Dean HDR
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electronic and Telecommunications Eng
Phone:
99250441
Email:
madhu.bhaskaran@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Fellowships, scholarships and awards
A representative list of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from a total of 24 is shown below:
- 2018 - APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education ("ASPIRE")
- 2018 - Batterham Medal by Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
- 2018 - Johnson & Johnson Quickfire Challenge Winner
- 2017 – Australian Museum Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
- 2017 – Australia's Most Innovative Engineers 2017 by Engineers Australia
- 2016 – RMIT Research Excellence – Team Award
- 2016-2018 – Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
- 2016 – MIT Technology Review TR35 and EmTech Asia Innovators Under 35 – One of 10 Honourees
- 2015 – Victoria Fellowship
- 2014 – Phillip Law Post-Doctoral Award for Physical Sciences from the Royal Society of Victoria
- 2011 – RMIT Research Media Star Award
- 2010-2014 – Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
Intellectual property
- T. Ahmed, S. Walia, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "Sensor and method for discriminating between wavelength regions using the sensor" Australian Patent Application 2018902291 (Filed: June 26, 2018).
- M. Taha, S. Walia, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "Vanadium oxide films and methods of fabricating the same," Australian Patent Application 2017210601; US Patent Application 15/668,823 (Filed: August 04, 2017).
- T. Ahmed, S. Walia, M. Bhaskaran, and S. Sriram, "Multifunctional and multi-bit resistive storage memories," Australian Provisional Patent 2016902654 (Filed: July 06, 2016).
- P. Gutruf, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "A flexible or stretchable sensor for use in detecting a substance and/or electromagnetic radiation and a method for detection thereof," Australian Patent Application 2016203718 (Filed: June 03, 2016); US Patent Application 15/173,272 (Granted)
- H. Nili, S. Walia, M. Bhaskaran, and S. Sriram, "A memristor device and a method of fabrication thereof," Australian Provisional Patent 2015904857 (Filed: November 25, 2015; PCT Filed: November 25, 2016).
Professional involvement
Membership of professional societies:
- Membership of professional societies:
- Materials Research Society (MRS)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN, formerly ARCNN)
- Australian Ceramic Society
Editorial roles:
- Associate Editor for Sensors and Actuators: A Physical
- Book Editor, CRC Press
- Guest Editor, Sensor Letters (Special Issue for IMCS-13)
Reviewer for competitive research funding:
- Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Projects , Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Future Fellowships, Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grants
- National Council for Scientific Research (Romania) – Exploratory Research Projects, Joint Applied Research Projects
- New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment – Investment rounds
Reviewer for international scientific journals
Reviewer for over 40 international journals. Examples include:
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Advanced Functional Materials
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Crystal Growth and Design
- CrystEngComm
- Nanoscale Research Letters
Conference organisation
- Scientific Advisory Committee, Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD) 2018
- Scientific Committee, Emerging Sensing Technologies Summit (ESTS) 2018
- Scientific Committee, Emerging Polymer Technologies Summit (EPTS) 2017
- Co-Convenor, Women in STEMM National Symposium, 2016
- Local Committee, International Symposium on Graphene Devices 2016
- Technical Committee, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics 2014
- Session Chair (Nano), International Conference on Small Science 2012
- Co-Chair and Organiser, Australian Nanotechnology Network Early-Career Symposium 2012
- Session Chair, CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference 2012
- Technical Committee, CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference 2012-2014
- Session Chair, 13th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS-13) 2010
- Organising Committee, SPIE International Symposium 2008
- Co-Leader, Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group
- Board of Directors, Women in STEMM Australia
- 2009 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Electronic Materials Engineering), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 – Master of Engineering (M.Eng., Microelectronics Engineering), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2004 – Bachelor of Engineering (B.E., Electronic and Communication Engineering), P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
- Kuriakose, S.,Ahmed, T.,Taylor, P.,Zhu, Y.,Spencer, M.,Balendhran, S.,Lu, Y.,Bansal, V.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S. (2019). Generating strong room-temperature photoluminescence in black phosphorus using organic molecules In: 2D Materials, 6, 1 - 10
- Arash, A.,Ahmed, T.,Rajan, A.,Walia, S.,rahman, F.,Mazumder, A.,Ramanathan, R.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Mayes, E.,Strano, M.,Balendhran, S. (2019). Large-area synthesis of two-dimensional MoO3-x for enhanced optoelectronic applications In: 2D Materials, , 1 - 20
- Arash, A.,Ahmed, T.,Rajan, A.,Walia, S.,rahman, F.,Mazumder, A.,Ramanathan, R.,Bhaskaran, M.,Mayes, E.,Strano, M.,Balendhran, S. (2019). Large-area synthesis of 2D MoO3-x for enhanced optoelectronic applications In: 2D Materials, 6, 1 - 9
- rahman, F.,Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,Mayes, E.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Balendhran, S. (2018). Reversible resistive switching behaviour in CVD grown, large area MoOx In: Nanoscale, 10, 19711 - 19719
- Rahman, M.,Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2018). Oxygen-deficient strontium titanate based stretchable resistive memories In: Applied Materials Today, 13, 126 - 134
- Mohammadtaheri, M.,Ramanathan, R.,Walia, S.,Ahmed, T.,Weerathunge, W.,Anderson, S.,Field, M.,Dekiwadia, C.,O'Mullane, A.,Della Gaspera, E.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Bansal, V. (2018). Broadband light active MTCNQ-based metal�organic semiconducting hybrids for enhanced redox catalysis In: Applied Materials Today, 13, 107 - 115
- Sun, M.,Taha, M.,Walia, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Shieh, W.,Unnithan, R. (2018). A Photonic Switch Based on a Hybrid Combination of Metallic Nanoholes and Phase-change Vanadium Dioxide In: Scientific Reports, 8, 1 - 9
- Nirantar, S.,Ahmed, T.,Ren, G.,Gutruf, P.,Xu, C.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S. (2018). Metal-Air Transistors: Semiconductor-Free Field-Emission Air-Channel Nanoelectronics In: Nano Letters, 18, 7478 - 7484
- Zou, W.,Gonzalez, A.,Deshetti, J.,Ramanathan, R.,Taha, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Dominguez-Vera, J.,Bansal, V. (2018). Skin color-specific and spectrally-selective naked-eye dosimetry of UVA, B and C radiations In: Nature Communications, 9, 1 - 1
- Mandal, B.,Biswas, A.,, A.,Sharma, D.,Bhardwaj, R.,Das, M.,Rahman, M.,Kuriakose, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S., et al, . (2018). p-Conjugated Amine-ZnO Nanohybrids for the Selective Detection of CO2 Gas at Room Temperature In: ACS Appl. Nano Mater, 1, 6912 - 6921
- Advanced Multifunctional Photoelectron Spectroscopy Platform. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2019)
- UV Sensing Electronic Skin. Funded by: Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - Competitive from (2018 to 2019)
- Vector network analyser suite for advanced terahertz materials and devices (administered by University of Adelaide). Funded by: ARC LIEF Grant via other uni 2018 from (2018 to 2018)
- Digital Health CRC Core Participants Agreement - Umbrella Agreement. Funded by: Digital Health CRC from (2018 to 2025)
- Dynamic phased array antennas for terahertz detection and ranging - led by University of Adelaide. Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions10 PhD Current Supervisions
Thin films: synthesis and characterisation; Microfabrication: electronic devices, flexible devices, stretchable electronics; Two-dimensional materials: elemental semiconductors (excluding graphene), oxides