Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman

Dr. Md. Ataur Rahman is a multifaceted researcher with a research focus on engineering materials and developing skin-mountable devices for monitoring airborne hazardous substances, mimicking sensory receptors for skin-like electronics for human-like robots, and bio signals. His areas of interest include energy harvesting, wireless and battery-free electronics, flexible and stretchable resistive random-access memory (ReRAM), and wearable sensors. He received the Global IT scholarship for MSc at the University of Ulsan, South Korea (2011-2013) that helped him a high-quality degree in electronic materials with multiple peer reviewed publications. Subsequently, he pursued his PhD in the field of electronic materials engineering with a specialisation focused on wearable electronics, soft materials, soft-hard integration of skin-like electronics. He was the recipient of the prestigious International Post Graduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) for pursuing a PhD at RMIT University (2016-2020). During this time, he expanded his knowledge by spending a sabbatical at Professor Gutruf’s Lab at The University of Arizona, USA in 2019 and by working as a Nicolas Baudin Fellow in Institut Des Nanosciences De Paris, Sorbonne University, Paris, France in 2020.

Currently, he is working as an Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellow and Senior Lecturer at RMIT University. He recently completed a Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Jack Brockhoff Foundation Medical Research Grant. He has extensive experience delivering on industry projects, serving as Chief Investigator on two Cooperative Research Centres Projects with Vlepis and Veintech.