STAFF PROFILE
Professor Madhu Bhaskaran
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399250441
Email:
madhu.bhaskaran@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
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
Professional organisation roles
- Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering (2019-current)
- Expert Working Group for Women in STEM Decadal Plan (2018-2019)
Editorial roles:
- Associate Editor for Sensors and Actuators: A Physical
- Editorial Advisory Board for Small
- International Advisory Board for Advanced Intelligent Systems
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
- Program Committee, 35th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) 2020
- Symposium Co-Chair, International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) 2020
- Co-chair, Thinking BIG with Nano 2018
- 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
- Co-Chair and Organiser, Australian Nanotechnology Network Early-Career Symposium 2012
- Technical Committee, CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference 2012-2014
- Organising Committee, SPIE International Symposium 2008
- Co-Leader, Functional Materials and Microsystems
- Node Director and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS)
- 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
- Jain, S.,Low, M.,Taylor, P.,Abbas, S.,Spencer, M.,Kuriakose, S.,Arash, A.,Xu, C.,Sriram, S.,Gupta, G.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S. (2021). 2D/3D Hybrid of MoS2/GaN for a High-Performance Broadband Photodetector In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 3, 2407 - 2414
- Ahmad Kayani, A.,Kuriakose, S.,Monshipouri, M.,Khalid, F.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2021). (In Press) UV Photochromism in Transition Metal Oxides and Hybrid Materials In: Small, , 1 - 31
- Jain, S.,Kumar, R.,Aggarwal, N.,Vashishtha, P.,Goswami, L.,Kuriakose, S.,Pandey, A.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S. (2020). Current Transport and Band Alignment Study of MoS2/GaN and MoS2/AlGaN Heterointerfaces for Broadband Photodetection Application In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 710 - 718
- Arash, A.,Abbas, S.,Spencer, M.,Jain, S.,Arash, S.,Mazumder, A.,Mayes, E.,rahman, F.,Singh, M.,Bansal, V.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Balendhran, S. (2020). Electrically Activated UV-A Filters Based on Electrochromic MoO3–x In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 16997 - 17003
- You, X.,Upadhyay, A.,Cheng, Y.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Fumeaux, C.,Withayachumnankul, W. (2020). Ultra-wideband far-infrared absorber based on anisotropically etched doped silicon In: Optics Letters, 45, 1196 - 1199
- Ebrahimi, A.,Ako, R.,Lee, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Withayachumnankul, W. (2020). High-Q Terahertz Absorber with Stable Angular Response In: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, 10, 204 - 211
- Li, H.,Low, M.,Ako, R.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Withayachumnankul, W.,Kuhlmey, B.,Atakaramians, S. (2020). Broadband Single-Mode Hybrid Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Terahertz Integration on a Chip In: Advanced Materials Technologies, 5, 1 - 11
- Kabir, S.,Nirantar, S.,Zhu, L.,Ton-That, C.,Jain, S.,Kayani, A.,Murdoch, B.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2020). Phase change vanadium dioxide light sensors In: Applied Materials Today, 21, 1 - 13
- Kuriakose, S.,Jain, S.,Abbas, S.,Spencer, M.,Murdoch, B.,Singh, M.,Rahman, F.,Mayes, E.,Taha, M.,Ako, R.,Bansal, V.,Ahmed, T.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Balendhran, S.,Walia, S. (2020). Monocrystalline Antimonene Nanosheets via Physical Vapor Deposition In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7, 1 - 8
- You, X.,Ako, R.,Lee, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Fumeaux, C.,Withayachumnakul, W. (2020). Broadband terahertz transmissive quarter-wave metasurface In: APL Photonics, 5, 1 - 9
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions15 PhD Completions
Thin films: synthesis and characterisation; Microfabrication: electronic devices, flexible devices, stretchable electronics; Two-dimensional materials: elemental semiconductors (excluding graphene), oxides
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems TMOS (Administered by The Australian National University). Funded by: ARC Centre of Excellence Grant - Via Other University from (2021 to 2027)
- DNA nano biosensor for cancer diagnostics (Administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI) 2018 onwards from (2021 to 2022)
- R2R printing for cost effective manufacturing of a Smart Patch for health monitoring (NTM Project) (Nutromics). Funded by: Innovative Manufacturing CRC from (2020 to 2022)
- Miniature Wireless Biosensors for Respiratory Disease Detection. Funded by: Soterius - Contract from (2020 to 2021)
- Preventing Heart Attacks with Nanotechnology-enabled Biomarker Sensors (ESN Project). Funded by: Innovative Manufacturing CRC from (2019 to 2021)