STAFF PROFILE
Professor Sharath Sriram
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399250440
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
- 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
- Krishnamurthi, V.,Low, M.,Kuriakose, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S. (2021). Black Phosphorus Nanoflakes Vertically Stacked on MoS2 Nanoflakes as Heterostructures for Photodetection In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, 4, 6928 - 6935
- Wang, L.,Zhao, Z.,Ako, R.,Sriram, S. (2021). Terahertz superlattice modes in moiré metasurface composed of twisted square and hexagonal lattices In: Applied Physics Express, 14, 1 - 6
- 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
- Kabir, S.,Nirantar, S.,Monshipouri, M.,Low, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2021). (In Press) Device Geometry Insights for Efficient Electrically Driven Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Vanadium Dioxide Thin-Films In: Advanced Electronic Materials, , 1 - 9
- You, X.,Ako, R.,Lee, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Fumeaux, C.,Withayachumnankul, W. (2021). Terahertz transmissive half-wave metasurface with enhanced bandwidth In: Optics Letters, 46, 4164 - 4167
- Jain, S.,Low, M.,Vashishtha, P.,Nirantar, S.,Zhu, L.,Ton-That, C.,Ahmed, T.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S.,Gupta, G.,Bhaskaran, M. (2021). Influence of Temperature on Photodetection Properties of Honeycomb-like GaN Nanostructures In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8, 1 - 9
- 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
- Ahmed, T.,Tahir, M.,Low, M.,Ren, Y.,Abbas, S.,Mayes, E.,Kuriakose, S.,Nawaz, S.,Spencer, M.,Chen, H.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S. (2020). Fully Light-Controlled Memory and Neuromorphic Computation in Layered Black Phosphorus In: Advanced Materials, 33, 1 - 13
- Nirantar, S.,Rahman, M.,Mayes, E.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S. (2020). Amorphous Metal Oxide Bilayers to Avoid Sneak-Path Currents for High-Density Resistive Memory Arrays In: Advanced Intelligent Systems, 3, 1 - 9
- Victorian Medical Device Prototyping and Scale Up Facility (VHESIF Pool 2). Funded by: Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF) - Pool 2 from (2021 to 2025)
- 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)
- A triple beam microscope: new frontiers in materials nanocharacterisation (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2021 to 2021)
- 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)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
12 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions19 PhD Completions
Microfabrication: micro/nano-electronic devices, microsystems, thin films, flexible devices; Memories: memristors, resistive memories; Photonics: plasmonics, metamaterials, terahertz devices, optical resonators