Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan is an accomplished researcher with a proven track record in designing, developing, and translating micro- and nano-scale devices. He is currently leading the 'Wearable and Connected Sensors' team as a theme leader at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, focusing on materials, sensors, flexible and stretchable devices, wearables, optics, and photonics.
He is a recipient of the highly competitive and prestigious ARC Industry Fellowship. He is the chief investigator of three active research grants related to wearable and flexible electronics. In the last three years, his work has generated more than $4.1M through industry and university collaborations and secure funding from CRC-P and ARC. He has secured a competitive grant, the 'CONICYT Postdoctoral Fellowship,' from the Chilean government (Ranked 4 out of 250 applicants), with a total cost of 81 million Chilean Pesos (CLP) for three years as a Principal Investigator from 2018 - 2021.
