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Prashant Sonar

Prashant Sonar is a former ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Chemistry and Physics and International Engagement Lead at the Centre for Material Science at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He holds an adjunct position with Griffith University, Australia and Visiting Professor appointment at the School of Material Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FFMAS).

He performed his doctoral work under the supervision of Professor Klaus Müllen at Max- Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and was awarded his PhD in 2004 from Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz. Dr Sonar moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, to do his Postdoctoral Research with Professor Schlüter from 2004 to 2006. From August 2006 till 2014, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Dr Sonar received a prestigious Future Fellowship (2013) from the Australian Research Council and was appointed as Associate Professor in July 2014 at QUT, Brisbane, Australia and promoted to Full Professor in 2021. At QUT, he established Organic and Printed Electronic Research group. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland). He is a recipient of the Award for Excellence-Impact and Translation (2020), Centre for Materials Science, QUT, Australia, Thiemann Exchange Program Award to visit Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (2017), Israel and Foreign Collaborator Award from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, (2016) Japan. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), and Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland).

Prof Sonar is interested in the design and synthesis of novel π-functional conjugated conducting and semiconducting materials (small molecules, oligomers, dendrimers, and polymers) for organic, flexible, stretchable and printed electronics. Such high-performance materials can be used for a wide range of applications which includes chemical and bio-sensors (optical, conducting, electrochemical), organic transistors, organic displays, organic solar cells, organic photodetectors, memory devices, energy storage materials (battery/supercapacitors) including supramoleculecular electronic and wearable electronic applications.


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