STAFF PROFILE
Professor Sharath Sriram
Position:
Scientific Coord MNRF and Assoc Prof
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electronic and Telecommunications Eng
Phone:
+61 3 9925 0440
Email:
sharath.sriram@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Professor Sharath Sriram jointly leads a team in 'Functional Materials and Microsystems' that translates discoveries at extremely small size scales into technology for electronics, communication, and biomedicine. He is the Scientific Coordinator and Founding Deputy Director of RMIT University's Micro Nano Research Facility. He is the recipient of several awards for leadership and research excellence, and contributes extensively to science policy and advocacy.
Fellowships, scholarships, and awards
A representative list of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from a total of 27 is shown below.
- 2018-19 – ANFF-Vic Technology Ambassador
- 2018 – IEEE Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award
- 2017 – Vice-Chancellor's Leadership Excellence Award (Operating Leader)
- 2016 – Australian Museum 2016 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science
- 2016 – Named one of Australia's Most Innovative Engineers 2016
- 2016 – Netexplo (UNESCO) Top 100 Innovations of 2016 (for nano memory cell innovation)
- 2014 – Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence - Early Career Researcher Award
- 2012 – Victoria Fellowship (with AFAS-Vic Fellowship supplement)
- 2012 – NMI Prize for measurement excellence awarded by the National Measurement Institute
- 2011-14 – Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
- 2010 – Gold Medal for Excellence in Research (Student) awarded by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)
Professional involvement
Professional organisation roles
- Australian Academy of Science
- EMCR Member, National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering (2017-)
- Australian Academy of Science’s Australian Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Forum
- Chair (2015)
- Acting Chair (2014: Aug-Dec)
- Deputy Chair (2014: Jan-Jul)
- Forum Executive Member (2013-2017)
- Australian Brain Alliance
- Executive (2017-)
- Australian Materials Research Society
- EMCR Commission Chair (2017-)
- Australian Research Council
- College of Experts (2019-)
- Science & Technology Australia
- Member, Policy Committee (2017-)
- Chair, Policy Committee (2018-)
- Standards Australia
- Expert Member: Nanotechnology measurement and characterization (2014-2019)
- Expert Member: Nanotechnology material specifications (2014-2019)
Editorial roles
- Book Editor, CRC Press
- Guest Editor, Sensor Letters (Special Issue for IMCS-13)
Reviewer for competitive research funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects, Future Fellowships, Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards, Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Grants
- Agency for Science, Research & Technology (A*STAR), Singapore
- Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research
Reviewer for international scientific journals
Reviewer for over 45 international journals. Examples include:
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Small
- Nanoscale
- Dalton Transactions
- The Journal of Physical Chemistry
Conference Organisation
- Co-chair, Thinking BIG with Nano 2018
- Co-chair and Organising Committee, International Conference for Young Researchers in Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICYRAM) 2018
- World Materials Summit Forum for Next Generation Researchers 2017
- Technical Committee, Nanoelectronics, International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) 2016
- International Organizing Committee, Second International Conference on Small Science 2012
- Co-Chair and Organiser, Australian Nanotechnology Network Early-Career Symposium 2012
- Session Chair, CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference 2012
- Session Chair, 13th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS-13) 2010
- Organising Committee, SPIE International Symposium 2008
- 2009 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Electronic Materials), 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
- Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,Mayes, E.,Ramanathan, R.,Guagliardo, P.,Bansal, V.,Bhaskaran, M.,Yang, J.,Sriram, S. (2018). Inducing tunable switching behavior in a single memristor In: Applied Materials Today, 11, 280 - 290
- Lee, W.,Ako, R.,Low, M.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Fumeaux, C.,Withayachumnnankul, W. (2018). Dielectric-resonator metasurfaces for broadband terahertz quarter- and half-wave mirrors In: Optics Express, 26, 14392 - 14406
- Chan, J.,Kayani, A.,Ali, M.,Kok, C.,Majlis, B.,Hoe, S.,Marzuki, M.,Khoo, A.,Ostrikov, K.,Rahman, M.,Sriram, S. (2018). Dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic platforms for cancer diagnostics In: Biomicrofluidics, 12, 1 - 21
- 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
- UV Sensing Electronic Skin. Funded by: Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Contract from (2018 to 2019)
- Digital Health CRC Core Participants Agreement - Umbrella Agreement. Funded by: Digital Health CRC from (2018 to 2025)
- Nanoscale materials and structures for precision electronics and photonics. Funded by: National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) - generic competitive funding for infrastructure 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)
- Rapid prototyping 3-D nano-pattern large area writer (Administered by The University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) 2016 from (2016 to 2016)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions13 PhD Current Supervisions
Microfabrication: micro/nano-electronic devices, microsystems, thin films, flexible devices; Memories: memristors, resistive memories; Photonics: plasmonics, metamaterials, terahertz devices, optical resonators