Prof. Javad Foroughi

Prof Foroughi is a visiting professor at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Essen, Germany, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong and a recipient of Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship. Prof Foroughi has pioneered the field of electrofunctional materials and he is widely acknowledged as the inventor of electrochemical torsional actuators (Artificial Muscles) and sensors based on carbon nanotube yarn (published in Science 2011). Prof Foroughi is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology whose current research focuses in part on developing new technologies for harvesting and storing energy, new types of wearable sensors, the fabrication, characterization and application of carbon nanotube, graphene yarns, new material synthesis, and fundamental structure-properties relationships for materials and application of smart materials for use in wearable technologies and biomedical applications.