Associate Professor MD Shahriar Hossain

Advanced functional materials, nanoarchitecture, biosensing, superconductors, device manufacturing

Dr. Hossain is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering (SoMME) and has a joint appointment in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland (UQ). He currently leads a medium size research group within the Australian Centre of Materials Nanotectonics where he is the Co-Director. Dr Hossain has extensive expertise in the area of Materials Science and Engineering and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of applied superconductivity. He has extensive expertise in a research field in which he has 12 years of experience. His research career has strongly supported by a number of awards, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from ARC, Strategic Research Fellowship from Australian Academy of Sciences, Priming and Bridging grant award from Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the Vice-Chancellor’s Emerging Researcher Excellence Award and Vice-Chancellor’s Excellent Industry Partnership Award from University of Wollongong (UOW). His innovative research at the intersection of materials science, magnetism and applied superconductivity has already resulted in the elegant and efficient design of magnetic and superconducting materials for a range of applications including MRI, power cables, fusion magnets and chemical biosensors. He has devised novel strategies based on underlying physics and chemistry to design highly efficient nano-engineered materials and engineering devices which exhibit significantly enhanced superconducting and electromagnetic properties compared to current commercial counterparts. The existing and new collaboration with leading universities, government organization and industry within Australia and abroad, including UOW, ANSTO, CERN and MIT will strengthen Australia's research profile in the field and the involvement of Dr. Hossain’s long standing industry partner Hyper Tech Reseatch Inc will ensure practical applications in an industry context.

Industry

Hyper Tech Research/USA, STS Private Ltd/Gold Coast, Zazztech Py Ltd/Sydney, Schnell Energy/Melbourne, CSIRO, ANSTO

Collaborations

My collaborations span national and international universities, research institutes, and industry partners (UOW, UNSW, Ohio State University, MIT/USA, King's College London, Universitat Indonesia, Institute Technology Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, Sunway University, Malaysia, Tokyo University, Nagoya University, NiMS/Japan, Hyper Tech Ins, STS Pty Ltd, Schnell Energy), with a strong focus on advanced materials and manufacturing. These partnerships bring together complementary expertise in superconducting materials and magnets, nanomaterials, energy and functional materials, advanced characterisation, computational modelling and AI-driven materials discovery. Beyond joint research and publications, I actively develop student and staff mobility, joint supervision, educational pathways, industry engagement, workshops and conferences, and collaborative funding initiatives, creating long-term partnerships that connect research excellence with education, translation and real-world impact.

Funding

I have secured over $10+ million in competitive national and international research funding, including numerous ARC grants for discovery and industry partnership schemes. My funding success includes an esteemed European Commission FP7 Postdoctoral Fellowship and multiple international travel grants, enabling visiting scholar/fellow opportunities across the USA, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, and more. In the past five years, I have led an ARC DECRA project (2013-2016), one ARC LIEF, three Linkage Projects (2018-2027) with US industry, and five international collaborations (2015-2020) with partners in Japan, the USA, Malaysia, Netherlands, and Switzerland. Additionally, I contributed as a Chief Investigator (CI) on one ARC Discovery project (2019-2022), one ARC Linkage project (2012-2016), two Baosteel research grants, and three international collaborations with Japan and Indonesia (2018-2022), totalling over $6 million in funding. Furthermore, I received Priming and Bridging grants (2019-2020), travel grants (2015-2020), and neutron beam time access from esteemed bodies such as ATSE, the Australian Academy of Sciences, and AINSE, highlighting the multidisciplinary impact of my research.

Key Publications

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15581

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201703609

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr4074

https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cs00174c

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jma.2023.11.014

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