Scientia Fellow and Associated Professor
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
I am a Scientia Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. I lead a group of 17 people focused on development of novel porous materials and their composites for drug delivery, tissue engineering, and biosensing. I have co-authored over 137 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals in the field of nanomaterials, biomaterials, drug delivery, and consequently have attracted more than 7,100 citations on Scopus and returns an H-index of 52. I have successfully secured over $6 million (>$3.9M as lead CI) in competitive research grants, including an NHMRC early career fellowship, ARC Discovery Project, Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant, a US. Dept of Defence grant.
