Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a Professor and Academic Lead of Engineering at the University of Sydney. Previously, he served as the Head of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a 2018 Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow and an adjunct professor of engineering at UNSW in Sydney. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT in Melbourne. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh was also the Director of the Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid-based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO) at UNSW. He is best known for his work on two-dimensional semiconductors, ingestible sensors, and liquid metals. He led his group to the invention of an ingestible chemical sensor: the human gas-sensing capsule.

Kalantar-Zadeh has coauthored over 500 highly cited research articles and reviews. In addition, he is a member of the editorial boards or advisory boards of Applied Materials Today, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Sensors, Advanced Materials Technologies, Nanoscale, Applied Surface Science, and ACS Nano. Kalantar-Zadeh is the recipient of many international awards in recognition of his scientific contributions, including the 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and the 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award.