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Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh

Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh

Senior Lecturer

  • 2010-2014, PhD in Materials Engineering, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), The University of Wollongong, Australia
Engineering
Grad Sch: Biomedical Eng

Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh is a Scientia Senior Lecturerin the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (Sydney).She received her PhD from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI) at the University of Wollongong, conducting research on fabrication of electroactive 3D structures for biomedical application under the supervision of ARC Laureate Fellow and the director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES), Prof. Gordon G. Wallace in 2014. Following her PhD completion, she has received a two-year post-doctoral position at Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) and ACES, where she was working with clinicians and neuroscientists to develop novel flexible electrodes for electrotherapy.

Her group has been working on multidisciplinary research projects that combine the knowledge and skills across material chemistry, nanotechnology and additive fabrication technologies for biomedical engineering and capture or conversion systems. Dr Esrafilzadeh is the recipient of several grants, awards and fellowships including the UNSW Scientia Fellowship.

Location
R.1005, Lvl.1, Biological Sciences Building (E26), UNSW SYDNEY, NSW 2052
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Allioux FM; Nazari S; Ghasemian MB; Zavabeti A; Pei Z; Leverett J; Rafiezadeh S; Salih AK; Irvine CP; Baharfar M; Bardet L; Widjajana MS; Chi Y; Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili AR; Haghdadi N; Tang J; Laws KJ; Ton-That C; Daeneke T; Daiyan R; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2024, 'Atomic Dispersion via High-Entropy Liquid Metal Alloys', Small Structures,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Duan W; Robles UA; Poole-Warren L; Esrafilzadeh D, 2024, 'Bioelectronic Neural Interfaces: Improving Neuromodulation Through Organic Conductive Coatings', Advanced Science, 11,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nazari S; Sun J; Baharfar M; Poulin P; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Jalili A; Esrafilzadeh D, 2024, 'High-Throughput Ammonia Production from Nitrate Using Liquid Metal Synthesized Bismuth Nano-Catalyst', Advanced Energy Materials, 14,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Nazari S; Sun J; Baharfar M; Poulin P; Kalantar‐Zadeh K; Jalili AR; Esrafilzadeh D, 2024, 'High‐Throughput Ammonia Production from Nitrate Using Liquid Metal Synthesized Bismuth Nano‐Catalyst (Adv. Energy Mater. 28/2024)', Advanced Energy Materials, 14,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Shah DD; Carter P; Shivdasani MN; Fong N; Duan W; Esrafilzadeh D; Poole-Warren LA; Aregueta Robles UA, 2024, 'Deciphering platinum dissolution in neural stimulation electrodes: Electrochemistry or biology?', Biomaterials, 309,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Wan S; Aregueta Robles U; Poole-Warren L; Esrafilzadeh D, 2024, 'Advances in 3D tissue models for neural engineering: self-assembled versus engineered tissue models', Biomaterials Science, 12, pp. 3522 - 3549,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Almasri RM; Ladouceur F; Mawad D; Esrafilzadeh D; Firth J; Lehmann T; Poole-Warren LA; Lovell NH; Al Abed A, 2023, 'Emerging trends in the development of flexible optrode arrays for electrophysiology', APL Bioengineering, 7,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Cao Z; Chi Y; Tang J; Esrafilzadeh D; Tang J; Rahim MA; Thomas DS; Tajik M; Donald WA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2023, 'Liquid metal enabled reformation of ethylene glycol', Chemical Engineering Journal, 460,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Duan W; Poole-Warren L; Esrafilzadeh D; Robles UA, 2023, 'Effect of Hydrogel-based Model Fibrosis on Electrical Properties of Bioelectrodes', Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tang J; Kumar PV; Cao Z; Han J; Daeneke T; Esrafilzadeh D; O'Mullane AP; Tang J; Rahim A; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2023, 'Low temperature mechano-catalytic biofuel conversion using liquid metals', Chemical Engineering Journal, 452,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zhang C; Tang J; Xie W; Allioux FM; Cao Z; Biazik JM; Tajik M; Deng F; Li Y; Abbasi R; Baharfar M; Mousavi M; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2023, 'Mechanistic Observation of Interactions between Macrophages and Inorganic Particles with Different Densities', Small, 19, pp. e2204781,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Abbasi R; Tang J; Baharfar M; Zhang C; Allioux FM; Zhang J; Tajik M; Yang J; Biazik J; Centurion F; Han J; Mofarah SS; Esrafilzadeh D; Koshy P; Sorrell CC; Chan SLI; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Induction heating for the removal of liquid metal-based implant mimics: A proof-of-concept', Applied Materials Today, 27,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Echeverria CA; Tang J; Cao Z; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Ag-Ga Bimetallic Nanostructures Ultrasonically Prepared from Silver-Liquid Gallium Core-Shell Systems Engineered for Catalytic Applications', ACS Applied Nano Materials, 5, pp. 6820 - 6831,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Mayyas M; Khoshmanesh K; Kumar P; Mousavi M; Tang J; Ghasemian MB; Yang J; Wang Y; Baharfar M; Rahim MA; Xie W; Allioux FM; Daiyan R; Jalili R; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Reaction Media for Interfacial Precipitation of Bismuth Nanomaterials with Controlled Phases and Morphologies', Advanced Functional Materials, 32,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tang J; Kumar PV; Scott JA; Tang J; Ghasemian MB; Mousavi M; Han J; Esrafilzadeh D; Khoshmanesh K; Daeneke T; O'mullane AP; Kaner RB; Rahim MA; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Low Temperature Nano Mechano-electrocatalytic CH4Conversion', ACS Nano, 16, pp. 8684 - 8693,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tang J; Tang J; Mayyas M; Ghasemian MB; Sun J; Rahim MA; Yang J; Han J; Lawes DJ; Jalili R; Daeneke T; Saborio MG; Cao Z; Echeverria CA; Allioux FM; Zavabeti A; Hamilton J; Mitchell V; O'Mullane AP; Kaner RB; Esrafilzadeh D; Dickey MD; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Liquid-Metal-Enabled Mechanical-Energy-Induced CO2 Conversion', Advanced Materials, 34,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhang C; Yang B; Biazik J; Webster RF; Xie W; Tang J; Allioux F-M; Abbasi R; Mousavi M; Goldys EM; Killian KA; Chandrawati R; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2022, 'Gallium Nanodroplets are Anti-Inflammatory without Interfering with Iron Homeostasis', ACS Nano,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jalili AR; Satalov A; Nazari S; Rahmat Suryanto BH; Sun J; Ghasemian MB; Mayyas M; Kandjani AE; Sabri YM; Mayes E; Bhargava SK; Araki J; Zakri C; Poulin P; Esrafilzadeh D; Amal R, 2021, 'Liquid Crystal-Mediated 3D Printing Process to Fabricate Nano-Ordered Layered Structures', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 28627 - 28638,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Rahim MA; Centurion F; Han J; Abbasi R; Mayyas M; Sun J; Christoe MJ; Esrafilzadeh D; Allioux FM; Ghasemian MB; Yang J; Tang J; Daeneke T; Mettu S; Zhang J; Uddin MH; Jalili R; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Centurion Rodriguez F, 2021, 'Polyphenol-Induced Adhesive Liquid Metal Inks for Substrate-Independent Direct Pen Writing', Advanced Functional Materials, 31,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Wang Y; Mayyas M; Yang J; Ghasemian MB; Tang J; Mousavi M; Han J; Ahmed M; Baharfar M; Mao G; Yao Y; Esrafilzadeh D; Cortie D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2021, 'Liquid-metal-assisted deposition and patterning of molybdenum dioxide at low temperature', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13, pp. 53181 - 53193,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Xie W; Allioux FM; Namivandi-Zangeneh R; Ghasemian MB; Han J; Rahim MA; Tang J; Yang J; Mousavi M; Mayyas M; Cao Z; Centurion F; Christoe MJ; Zhang C; Wang Y; Merhebi S; Baharfar M; Ng G; Esrafilzadeh D; Boyer C; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2021, 'Polydopamine Shell as a Ga3+Reservoir for Triggering Gallium-Indium Phase Separation in Eutectic Gallium-Indium Nanoalloys', ACS Nano, 15, pp. 16839 - 16850,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Datta RS; Syed N; Zavabeti A; Jannat A; Mohiuddin M; Rokunuzzaman M; Yue Zhang B; Rahman MA; Atkin P; Messalea KA; Ghasemian MB; Gaspera ED; Bhattacharyya S; Fuhrer MS; Russo SP; McConville CF; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Daeneke T, 2020, 'Flexible two-dimensional indium tin oxide fabricated using a liquid metal printing technique', Nature Electronics, 3, pp. 51 - 58,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Elbourne A; Cheeseman S; Atkin P; Truong NP; Syed N; Zavabeti A; Mohiuddin M; Esrafilzadeh D; Cozzolino D; McConville CF; Dickey MD; Crawford RJ; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Chapman J; Daeneke T; Truong VK, 2020, 'Antibacterial Liquid Metals: Biofilm Treatment via Magnetic Activation', ACS Nano, 14, pp. 802 - 817,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Farajikhah S; Choi J; Esrafilzadeh D; Underwood J; Innis PC; Paull B; Wallace GG, 2020, '3D textile structures with integrated electroactive electrodes for wearable electrochemical sensors', Journal of the Textile Institute, 111, pp. 1587 - 1595,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Mayyas M; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Mousavi M; Ghasemian MB; Abbasi R; Li H; Christoe MJ; Han J; Wang Y; Zhang C; Rahim MA; Tang J; Yang J; Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Allioux FM; O'Mullane AP, 2020, 'Pulsing liquid alloys for nanomaterials synthesis', ACS Nano, 14, pp. 14070 - 14079,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Mayyas M; Li H; Kumar P; Ghasemian MB; Yang J; Wang Y; Lawes DJ; Han J; Saborio MG; Tang J; Jalili R; Lee SH; Seong WK; Russo SP; Esrafilzadeh D; Daeneke T; Kaner RB; Ruoff RS; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Liquid-Metal-Templated Synthesis of 2D Graphitic Materials at Room Temperature', Advanced Materials, 32,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Saborio MG; Cai S; Tang J; Ghasemian MB; Mayyas M; Han J; Christoe MJ; Peng S; Koshy P; Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Wang CH; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Liquid Metal Droplet and Graphene Co-Fillers for Electrically Conductive Flexible Composites', Small, 16,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tang J; Tang J; Mayyas M; Ghasemian MB; Sun J; Rahim MA; Yang J; Han J; Lawes D; Jalili R; Daeneke T; Saborio M; Cao Z; Allioux F-M; O'Mullane A; Kaner R; Esrafilzadeh D; Dickey M; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Mechanical energy-induced CO2 conversion using liquid metals', ,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhang C; Allioux FM; Rahim MA; Han J; Tang J; Ghasemian MB; Tang SY; Mayyas M; Daeneke T; Le-Clech P; Kaner RB; Esrafilzadeh D; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2020, 'Nucleation and Growth of Polyaniline Nanofibers onto Liquid Metal Nanoparticles', Chemistry of Materials, 32, pp. 4808 - 4819,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Esrafilzadeh D; Zavabeti A; Jalili R; Atkin P; Choi J; Carey BJ; Brkljača R; O’Mullane AP; Dickey MD; Officer DL; MacFarlane DR; Daeneke T; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2019, 'Publisher Correction: Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (865), 10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8)', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 1367,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Esrafilzadeh D; Zavabeti A; Jalili R; Atkin P; Choi J; Carey BJ; Brkljača R; O’Mullane AP; Dickey MD; Officer DL; MacFarlane DR; Daeneke T; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2019, 'Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces', Nature Communications, 10, pp. 865,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Syed N; Zavabeti A; Messalea KA; Della Gaspera E; Elbourne A; Jannat A; Mohiuddin M; Zhang BY; Zheng G; Wang L; Russo SP; Esrafilzadeh D; McConville CF; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Daeneke T, 2019, 'Wafer-Sized Ultrathin Gallium and Indium Nitride Nanosheets through the Ammonolysis of Liquid Metal Derived Oxides', Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141, pp. 104 - 108,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Wang K; Frewin CL; Esrafilzadeh D; Yu C; Wang C; Pancrazio JJ; Romero-Ortega M; Jalili R; Wallace G, 2019, 'High-Performance Graphene-Fiber-Based Neural Recording Microelectrodes', Advanced Materials, 31,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Wang K; Frewin CL; Esrafilzadeh D; Yu C; Wang C; Pancrazio JJ; Romero‐Ortega M; Jalili R; Wallace G, 2019, 'Neural Recording: High‐Performance Graphene‐Fiber‐Based Neural Recording Microelectrodes (Adv. Mater. 15/2019)', Advanced Materials, 31,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Daeneke T; Khoshmanesh K; Mahmood N; De Castro IA; Esrafilzadeh D; Barrow SJ; Dickey MD; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2018, 'Liquid metals: Fundamentals and applications in chemistry', Chemical Society Reviews, 47, pp. 4073 - 4111,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Dhar N; Syed N; Mohiuddin M; Jannat A; Zavabeti A; Zhang BY; Datta RS; Atkin P; Mahmood N; Esrafilzadeh D; Daeneke T; Kalantar-Zadeh K, 2018, 'Exfoliation Behavior of van der Waals Strings: Case Study of Bi 2 S 3', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10, pp. 42603 - 42611,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jalili R; Esrafilzadeh D; Aboutalebi SH; Sabri YM; Kandjani AE; Bhargava SK; Della Gaspera E; Gengenbach TR; Walker A; Chao Y; Wang C; Alimadadi H; Mitchell DRG; Officer DL; MacFarlane DR; Wallace GG, 2018, 'Silicon as a ubiquitous contaminant in graphene derivatives with significant impact on device performance', Nature communications, 9, pp. 5070 - 5070,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zhang Q; Beirne S; Shu K; Esrafilzadeh D; Huang XF; Wallace GG, 2018, 'Electrical Stimulation with a Conductive Polymer Promotes Neurite Outgrowth and Synaptogenesis in Primary Cortical Neurons', Scientific Reports, 8,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Zhang Q; Esrafilzadeh D; Crook JM; Kapsa R; Stewart EM; Tomaskovic-Crook E; Wallace GG; Huang XF, 2017, 'Electrical stimulation using conductive polymer polypyrrole counters reduced neurite outgrowth of primary prefrontal cortical neurons from NRG1-KO and DISC1-LI mice', Scientific Reports, 7,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Liu X; Gilmore KJ; Razal JM; Moulton SE; Wallace GG, 2016, 'A novel and facile approach to fabricate a conductive and biomimetic fibrous platform with sub-micron and micron features', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4, pp. 1056 - 1063,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Stewart EM; Aboutalebi SH; Razal JM; Moulton SE; Wallace GG, 2016, 'High-Performance Multifunctional Graphene-PLGA Fibers: Toward Biomimetic and Conducting 3D Scaffolds', Advanced Functional Materials, 26, pp. 3105 - 3117,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Schirmer KSU; Esrafilzadeh D; Thompson BC; Quigley AF; Kapsa RMI; Wallace GG, 2016, 'Conductive composite fibres from reduced graphene oxide and polypyrrole nanoparticles', Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4, pp. 1142 - 1149,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Schirmer KSU; Esrafilzadeh D; Thompson BC; Quigley AF; Kapsa RMI; Wallace GG, 2015, 'From nanoparticles to fibres: effect of dispersion composition on fibre properties', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 17,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Aboutalebi SH; Jalili R; Esrafilzadeh D; Salari M; Gholamvand Z; Aminorroaya Yamini S; Konstantinov K; Shepherd RL; Chen J; Moulton SE; Innis PC; Minett AI; Razal JM; Wallace GG, 2014, 'High-performance multifunctional Graphene yarns: Toward wearable all-carbon energy storage textiles', ACS Nano, 8, pp. 2456 - 2466,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Jalili R; Aboutalebi SH; Esrafilzadeh D; Konstantinov K; Razal JM; Moulton SE; Wallace GG, 2014, 'Formation and processability of liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide', Materials Horizons, 1, pp. 87 - 91,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Esrafilzadeh D; Razal JM; Moulton SE; Stewart EM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Multifunctional conducting fibres with electrically controlled release of ciprofloxacin', Journal of Controlled Release, 169, pp. 313 - 320,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Jalili R; Aboutalebi SH; Esrafilzadeh D; Konstantinov K; Moulton SE; Razal JM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Organic solvent-based graphene oxide liquid crystals: A facile route toward the next generation of self-assembled layer-by-layer multifunctional 3D architectures', ACS Nano, 7, pp. 3981 - 3990,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Jalili R; Aboutalebi SH; Esrafilzadeh D; Shepherd RL; Chen J; Aminorroaya-Yamini S; Konstantinov K; Minett AI; Razal JM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Scalable one-step wet-spinning of graphene fibers and yarns from liquid crystalline dispersions of graphene oxide: Towards multifunctional textiles', Advanced Functional Materials, 23, pp. 5345 - 5354,
    Journal articles | 2013
    Jalili R; Aboutalebi SH; Esrafilzadeh D; Shepherd RL; Chen J; Aminorroaya‐Yamini S; Konstantinov K; Minett AI; Razal JM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Graphene Oxide: Scalable One‐Step Wet‐Spinning of Graphene Fibers and Yarns from Liquid Crystalline Dispersions of Graphene Oxide: Towards Multifunctional Textiles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 43/2013)', Advanced Functional Materials, 23, pp. 5344 - 5344,
    Journal articles | 2009
    Esrafilzadeh D; Morshed M; Tavanai H, 2009, 'An investigation on the stabilization of special polyacrylonitrile nanofibers as carbon or activated carbon nanofiber precursor', Synthetic Metals, 159, pp. 267 - 272,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Morshed M, 2008, 'Crystalline order and mechanical properties of as-electrospun and post-treated bundles of uniaxially aligned polyacrylonitrile nanofiber', Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 110, pp. 3014 - 3022,
  • Conference Papers | 2022
    Almasri RM; Abed AA; Esrafilzadeh D; Mawad D; Poole-Warren LA; Lovell NH, 2022, 'Electromechanical Stability and Transmission Behavior of Transparent Conductive Films for Biomedical Optoelectronic Devices', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, pp. 5 - 8,
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Esrafilzadeh D; Jalili R; Gilmore KJ; Razal JM; Moulton SL; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Combined wet-Spinning and electrospinning: Novel and facile method to fabricate micro-nano scale conducting fibres', in Fiber Society Spring 2013 Technical Conference
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Esrafilzadeh D; Moulton SE; Razal JM; Stewart EM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Multifunctional conducting polymer fibres for drug delivery applications', in Fiber Society Spring 2013 Technical Conference
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Jalili R; Aboutalebi SH; Esrafilzadeh D; Shepherd RL; Chen J; Aminorroaya-Yamini S; Konstantinov K; Minett AI; Razal JM; Wallace GG, 2013, 'Wet-Spinning of multifunctional graphene fibers using graphene oxide liquid crystals', in Fiber Society Spring 2013 Technical Conference

  • NHMRC Ideas Grant, APP2002282, Co-CI, "Re-engineering the future of electrophysiological measurements and brain-machine interfaces using a novel multi-optrode array", 2021-2024, $731,557
  • Chevron Corporation Industry Grant, Co-CI, "Carbon dioxide conversion using liquid metals", 2020-2021, $100,000
  • ARC Linkage Grant, LP190101139, Co-CI, "Understanding platinum dissolution in biomedical stimulating electrodes", 2019-2022,$704,384
  • Minor Research Equipment Grant (MREG) at Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering (GSBmE), Lead CI, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW, 2019, $17,000
  • Academic Start-up Funding (ASUF), Sole CI, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW, 2019-2022, $98,000
  • Scientia Development and Collaboration Support Fund, Sole CI, UNSW, 2019-2023, $120,000
  • CASS-Foundation Medicine/ScienceGrant, Co-CI, "Investigating the impact and removal of biofilm for infection control",2018, $50,000
  • Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship Fund, Sole CI, RMIT University,2017-2020, $30,000
  • The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM) for Gold Grant, Lead CI, University of Wollongong,2015, $10,000

  • Faculty of Engineering Staff Research Excellence Award, UNSW, 2020
  • Promoting High-Quality Research Papers Scheme (PHQRP) award for Nature Electronics paper, UNSW DVCR, 2020, $1,500
  • Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN) travel award, 2020, $500
  • Promoting High-Quality Research Papers Scheme (PHQRP) award for an article at Nature Communication, UNSW DVCR, 2019, $1,500
  • Monash Engineering Future Women Leaders award, UNSW, 2019
  • Scientia Fellowship,University of New of South Wales, 2019-2023
  • Vice-Chancellor's Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, RMIT University, 2017-2020
  • Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE)travel award, 2012
  • Faculty of Science travel award, University of Wollongong,2012

  • Design and synthesis of stimuli-responsive materials
  • Biomaterials, tissue engineering, bionic devices
  • Nanomaterials
  • Flexible electrodes
  • Capture and conversion processes in renewable energy systems
  • Nanomaterials
  • Smart textiles
  • Additivefabrication technologies (e.g., 3D printing, electrospinning, and wet spinning etc.)

My Research Supervision

  • Shuqian Wan, PhD candidate, primary supervisor, (2021-present)
  • Moqaddaseh Afzali, PhD candidate, primary supervisor, (2022-present)
  • Thanh Nhi Tra, PhD candidate, joint supervisor, (2021-present)
  • Sahar Nazari, PhD candidate, co-supervisor, (2021-present)
  • Chengchen Zhang, PhD candidate, joint supervisor, (2019-present)
  • Junma Tang, PhD candidate, joint supervisor, (2019-present)
  • Daniel Tjoe,Undergraduate research student, (2022-present)
  • Benjamin Nguyen,Undergraduate research student, (2021-present)
  • Aditi Nitturkar,Undergraduate research student, (2021-present)
  • William Zhang,Undergraduate research student, (2021)
  • Dr Dharshika Kongahage, Research Officer, (2020)
  • Xuguo Wang, Undergraduate research student, (2020)

My Teaching

Dr. Esrafilzadeh has contributed to the teaching at UNSW and RMIT University for the following courses:

  • Engineering in Medicine and Biology (BIOM1010), Course Coordinator & Lecturer, (2020-present)
  • Semiconductor Device Fabrication (EEET2155), Co-Lecturer
  • Semiconductor Device Fabrication (EEET2045), Co-Lecturer
  • Micro Nano Engineering Fundamentals (EEET2428), Co-Lecturer