Frank Caruso
University of Melbourne
Professor Frank Caruso completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne and a postdoctoral fellowship at CSIRO. He led a research group at the Max Plank Institute, Germany, until 2002, when he became a Professor and ARC Federation Fellow at UniMelb, and Director of the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNST).
His research involvesadvanced nano- and biomaterials applications in biotechnology, medicine, pharmaceutics and materials science, and has attracted over $16 million in funding. He has authored over 180 papers and seven book chapters and is on the ISI’s most highly cited list. He is coinventor of 20 patents and cofounder of Capsulution Nanoscience AG.
Prof. Caruso was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1997), Max Planck Institute Award for Research Excellence (1998) and an award from the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (1998). The Royal Australasian Chemical Institute awarded him the Rennie Memorial Medal (2000), the Exchange Medal (2001), the LeFevre Prize (2004), and the David Sangster Polymer Sciences and Technology Achievement Award (2006). In 2007, he received a second ARC Federation Fellowship.
Since 2005, Prof. Caruso has been a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts and is an Editor for the American Chemical Society journal, Chemistry of Materials.