Shankar Dutt
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shankar Dutt is a doctoral student at the Research School of Physics, Australian National University. His research interests are focussed on the fabrication and applications of extremely small nanopores of controllable shape and size in a variety of materials. Combining his technology with 2D materials and ultra-thin film deposition enables the fabrication of nanopore membranes with desired functions that can be used in medical and biological sensors, ultrafiltration, and lab-on-a-chip applications. He also has strong expertise in material modification through high-energy ion beams and characterisation using synchrotron-based small-angle X-ray scattering.
Shankar received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from India, where he was awarded University gold medals for both courses. During his undergraduate degree, he also worked at the ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique in France. He was awarded an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship as well as the AINSE Postgraduate Research Award for his doctoral studies at the ANU. Shankar has published several articles in world-leading journals and has applied for two patents. He has obtained funding from NVIDIA, Google, DAAD, ANSTO and ANU Connect Ventures, including a Discovery Translation Fund to explore commercialisation activities based on his inventions.
