Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- shanmuga.sundar.dhanabalan@rmit.edu.au
Dr. Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan works in the Functional Materials and Microsystem Research Group (fmm.rmit.edu.au) at RMIT University. His main objective is to develop new flexible and stretchable sensors to improve the quality of life and well-being which will significantly contribute to Australia. He has 10 years of research experience and 2 years of teaching experience. Dr. Sundar is an experienced researcher with demonstrated ability to design and develop micro and nanoscale devices and translate ideas to commercialisable products. He is currently working with various Australian and international companies such as Sleeptite, nthalmic, Vlepis, and Anura medical. He has experience working at international laboratories/research centres in India, Chile, and Australia. He is involved in setting up a Sleeptite research and development lab at RMIT University for testing the sensors embedded mattress for the development of REMi. In addition to that, he is developing ECG sensors, plant wearables, non-invasive optical glucose sensors, battery-free sensors, thermoelectric cooling sleeves, and wearable UV sensors for various applications.
He has secured a competitive grant ‘CONICYT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP’ from the Chilean government (Ranked 4 out of 250 applicants) with a total cost of 81 million Chilean Pesos (CLP) for 3 years as a Principal Investigator. He is the chief investigator of the Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) Round 12 (2022- 2024), $1.48 million, and Biosensor Project with Anura Medical.
He is also actively involved in training students, supervision, and guest lectures. He has delivered more than 20 invited talks and keynote presentations at various international conferences. He serves as a topical guest editor in IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer journals. He has published 35 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, 10 book chapters, and 6 books in progress as editor and several works have been highlighted by scientific websites (Photonics MEDIA, USA). He has presented his works at national and international conferences. His research area focuses on flexible and stretchable electronics, wearable biosensors, antennas, optics, and photonics.