STAFF PROFILE
Professor Sharath Sriram
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Email:
sharath.sriram@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
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
- 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
- Zhao, Z.,Gu, Z.,Ako, R.,Zhao, H.,Sriram, S. (2020). Coherently controllable terahertz plasmon-induced transparency using a coupled Fano–Lorentzian metasurface In: Optics Express, 28, 15573 - 15586
- 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
- Zhao, Z.,Zhao, H.,Ako, R.,Nickl, S.,Sriram, S. (2020). Polarization-insensitive terahertz spoof localized surface plasmon-induced transparency based on lattice rotational symmetry In: Applied Physics Letters, 117, 1 - 5
- Chen, Y.,Aslanoglou, S.,Murayama, T.,Gervinskas, G.,Fitzgerald, L.,Sriram, S.,Tian, J.,Johnston, A. P.R., et al, . (2020). Silicon-Nanotube-Mediated Intracellular Delivery Enables Ex Vivo Gene Editing In: Advanced Materials, 32, 1 - 10
- 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
- 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)
- 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 (2020 to 2027)
- 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)
- A triple beam microscope: new frontiers in materials nanocharacterisation (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2020 to 2020)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
11 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions18 PhD Completions
Microfabrication: micro/nano-electronic devices, microsystems, thin films, flexible devices; Memories: memristors, resistive memories; Photonics: plasmonics, metamaterials, terahertz devices, optical resonators