Associate Professor Pramod Koshy

My Expertise

Utilisation of Waste Materials

Ceramic Processing

Nanomaterials

Biomaterials

Polymer-Ceramic Composites

Refractories

Fields of Research (FoR)

Ceramics, Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy, Environmental Engineering, Nanobiotechnology

SEO tags

Ceramics, Glass and Industrial Mineral Products

Basic Iron and Steel Products

Environmentally Sustainable Mineral Resource Activities

Biography

ABOUT ME

Biography

ABOUT ME

Biography

My primary research foci is on the development of advanced materials for environmental and energy applications, particularly the transformation of waste materials /industrial by-products into value-added materials for economical and industrially-viable high-performance applications. I am the co-leader of the NEMCAT (Novel Engineered Materials for Conventional and Applied Technologies) group in the School of Materials Science and Engineering UNSW Sydney which focusses on understanding the correlations between structure-properties for different conventional and advanced materials. I am currently leading the Vecor-UNSW collaborative research program for materials for energy and environmental applications through the Australian Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy and have been awarded an ARC mid-career industry fellowship in 2024 to undertake research on developing novel materials from fly ash for industrial applications in paints and plastics. I have co-authored >150 publications, 4 international patents, supervised over 40 HDR (18 current) and 99 Honours students (10 current) to completion. I teach 3 courses (~100 hours) currently and am the only staff in the School to win the Australian Citation award, the Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence award and the Vice Chancellor's Excellence Teaching Awards.

My Grants

Current

Source	Topic	Year
ACARP	Corrosion behaviour of blended cokes	2020 - 2023
ARC LP (Vecor)	Development of Stabilised Zirconia	2020 - 2023
Vecor Technologies (Industry)	Development of Novel Products from Fly Ash	2009 - Present
ANSTO (Organisation)	Ion Implantation for Producing Doped Materials	2015 - Present
ANSTO (Organisation)	Designing Wasteforms for Nuclear Waste Storage	2018 - Present
ANSTO (Organisation)	Radiation Damage in Materials	2018 - Present
CSIRO (Organisation)	Characterisation of Functional Materials	2018 - Present
Brickworks (Industry)	Optimisation of Raw Materials in Brickmaking	2019 - Present
Allegra Orthopaedics (Industry)	Optimisation of Biomedical Product Characteristics	2019 - Present
Hytec (Industry)	Assessment of Raw Material Quality	2020 - Present
BHP (Industry)	Designing Coke Characteristics for Sustainable Steelmaking	2020 - Present
POSCO (Industry)	Assessment of Coal Resource Quality for Steelmaking	2020 - Present
Map-to-Mine (Industry)	Assessment of Mineral Quality for Industries	2021 - Present
MCM (Industry)	Investigation of Protection Mechanisms in Concrete	2021 - Present

Past

Source	Topic	Year
ACARP	High Temperature Properties of Blended Cokes	2019-2021
ARC LP (Topfibre)	Mullite-Based Composites from Topaz	2017-2020
ARC DP	Photocatalytic Bioceramic Nanoparticles	2017-2020
ARC LP (Vecor)	Waste Material Utilisation	2015-2018
POSCO (Industry)	High-Temperature Coke Properties and Performance	2017
Aurecon (Industry)	Refractory Failure Analysis	2016
ACARP (Industry)	High-Temperature Coke Strength Testing	2015-2018
Cook Medical (Industry)	Air Purification Unit Design	2015-2016
Angloamerican (Industry)	Analysis of Steel Plate and Bolt Failure	2016
POSCO (Industry)	Value added products from coal tar	2015
Faculty of Science	Utilisation of Fly Ash for Value Added Products	2009-2010

My Qualifications

Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering) UNSW, 2009
M.Tech. (Materials Science and Technology, NIT-Calicut, India, 2004
B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerala, India, 2002

My Awards

Personal

Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence	UNSW	2019
Australian Citation Award for Teaching Excellence	Australian Govt	2017
Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence	UNSW	2016
Faculty of Science Award for Teaching Excellence	UNSW	2015
Endeavour International Post-Graduate Research Scholarship	UNSW	2006-2008
1st Rank: Masters Degree (Materials Science and Technology)	NIT-C, India	2004
1st Rank & University Medal: Bachelor Degree (Mechanical Engineering)	University of Kerala, India	2002

Students

Frederick Zhang	3rd Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia, Nov 2023, Sydney	2023
Ratan Venkatesan	4th Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia, Nov 2023, Sydney	2023
Sarra Mourad	2nd Prize: Poster Presentation	Biomedical Presentation Event, Oct 2023	2023
Marcus Miljak	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering	2022
Marcus Miljak	2nd Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia, Nov 2022, Sydney	2022
Jodie Mann	1st Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Australia Nov 2022, Sydney	2022
Vienna Wong	ANSTO FutureNow Scholarship	PhD Scholarship Topup	2022
Aurpa Bhuiyan	AINSE Residential Student Scholarship	PhD Scholarship Topup	2022
Bernadette Pudadera	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering	2021
Jiachen Jiang	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering	2021
Edward Whitelock	2nd Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia Oct 2021, Sydney	2021
Vienna Wong	4th Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia Oct 2021, Sydney	2021
Joel Luke Abraham	AINSE Residential Student Scholarship	PhD Scholarship Topup	2021
Thibault de Villenoisy	1st Prize: Presentation	Materials Engineering Section: Faculty of Science Thesis Presentation	2021
Madi Moar	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering	2020
Joel Luke Abraham	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering	2020
Bernadette Pudadera	1st Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia 7 Nov 2020, Sydney	2020
Aurpa Bhuiyan	3rd Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia 7 Nov 2020, Sydney	2020
Vicki Zhong	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering	2019
Alan Cen	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering / Master in Biomedical Engineering	2019
Keenan Burrough	University Medal	Bachelor in Materials Engineering	2019
Sophie E. Armstrong	1st Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia 23 Oct 2019, Sydney	2019
Michelle Yeoh	1st Prize: Poster Presentation	ANSTO Young Researchers Forum 8 September 2019, Sydney	2019
Sajjad S. Mofarah	1st Prize: Best Presentation	Intl. Conference of Nanomaterials and Biomaterials, 10-12 December 2018, Barcelona, Spain	2018
Hangjuan Ren	1st Prize: Best Presentation	ACS Fall Conference, 19-23 August, Boston, MA, USA – Materials for Energy Session	2018
Kochurani K. Johnson	1st Prize: Poster Presentation	CAMS2018, 26-29 November, Wollongong	2018
Michelle Yeoh	1st Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Australia, 5 December 2018, Sydney	2018
Benjamin Fishburn	2nd Prize: Student Presentation	Materials Australia 6 Dec 2017, Sydney	2017
Zhao Liu	3rd Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW	2016
Sultan Albarakati	1st Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW	2015
Zhao Liu	3rd Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW	2015
Wen-Fan Chen	3rd Prize: Poster Presentation	Materials Postgraduate Society Poster Competition, UNSW	2014
Hao Qiu & Wai-Ling Kwong	Best Paper: Nanotechnology	10th Eco-Energy and Materials Science and Engineering (EMSES2012) 5-8 December 2012, Ubon-Ratchathani, Thailand	2012
Hsin Chen	2nd Prize: Presentation	10th Eco-Energy and Materials Science and Engineering (EMSES2012), 5-8 December 2012, Ubon-Ratchathani, Thailand	2012

My Research Activities

Current Research Fields

Development of catalytic films and nanoparticles for water and air purification
Utilisation of waste materials in ceramic and metallurgical applications
Understanding coke degradation mechanisms in blast furnace operations
Development of bioceramic coatings and nanoparticles for cell therapies and implants

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Nanostructured Films and Particles for Energy and Environmental Applications
Utilisation of Waste Resources
Materials for Nuclear Waste Storage
Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment and Cell Therapies

Currently supervising

PhD / Masters

Thibault de Villenoisy - MOFs for Novel Catalyst Synthesis (PhD)
Honghao Li - Porous Silicon for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
Yu-Chun Huang - Size Effects of Catalytic BTO (M.Phil)
Yu-Fu Tseng - Doped Cathodes for LIB (M.Research)
Sunny Fan - Carbonaceous Materials for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
Joel Abraham - Glass Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
Xiaoran Zheng - Nanostructured Materials for Energy (PhD)
Vienna Wong - Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics (PhD)
Aurpa Bhuiyan - Glass Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
Sharon Sasmita - Porous Silicon for Hydrogen Storage (PhD)
Marcus Miljak - X-Ray Detection Unit for Lunar Exploration (PhD)
Kaili Xue - BTO Morphologies for Energy Applications (PhD)
Saman Mostafapoor - Na-Ion Battery Electodes (PhD)
Husn Ara Chauhan - Nanoparticle Polymer Functional Composites (PhD)
Suchen Huang - Novel Catalysts for Chemical Processes (PhD)
Yueyue Luo - Novel Electrode Materials for Energy Storage (PhD)
Frederick Zhang - Glass-Ceramics for Nuclear Waste Storage (PhD)
Huangang Lin - Catalysts for CO2 Conversion (PhD)
Shahrzad Shaddel
Junyi Ning

Masters Coursework

Sherie Xue

Honours

Lovina Chen - Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)
Liang Xue - Fly Ash Based Composites (VECOR)
Louise McGuiggan - X-ray Detector Development (CSIRO)
Fenglin Zhuo - X-ray Detector Development (CSIRO)
Jess Degeling - Nuclear Waste Storage (ANSTO)
Ian D'Souza - Battery Cathode Development (VECOR)
Nathan Phanith - Catalyst Development for HER/OER (VECOR)
Zijuan Zhang - Nuclear Ceramic Development
Gerardo Pareja-Delgado - Analysis of Building Products (Brickworks)
Mohammed Ali - Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)
Eleana Fairbairn - Electrode Corrosion (Cochlear)

Past Higher Degree Students

Somyote Kongkarat (PhD) [2011]
James Dankwah (PhD) [2012]
Renzhong Zhang (MPhil) [2012]
Wai-Ling Kwong (PhD) [2014]
Hao Qiu (M/Phil) [2014]
Chau-Hyun Pham (PhD) [2014]
Chung-Pei Lin (M/Res) [2014]
Cindy Chen (M/Res) [2014*]
Cindy Wang (M/Phil) [2015]
Dinh Nguyen (PhD) [2015]
Jieyu Wang (M/Res) [2016]
Sultan Al-Barakati (M/Phil) [2016]
Shaohua Qi (M/Phil) [2016]
Christine Lin (PhD) [2016]
Wen-Fan Chen (PhD) [2016]
Supphatuch Ukritnukun (PhD) [2017]
Esmaeil Adabifiroozjaei (PhD) [2017]
Samuel Ho (M/Res) [2018]
Hsin-Kai Chen (M/Res) [2018]
Kenny Cheung (PhD) [2018]
Rashid Mehmood (PhD) [2018]
Imrana Kabir (PhD) [2018]
Hangjuan Ren (PhD) [2019]
Zhao Liu (PhD) [2019]
Yue Jiang (M/Res) [2019]
Ghazaleh Bahmanrokh (PhD) [2019]
Sajjad Mofarah (PhD) [2020]
Yuwen Xu (M/Phil) [2020]
Zhiyuan Liu (M/Res) [2020]
Lutful Amin (PhD) [2020]
Hongyang Ma (PhD) [2021]
Mahdi Motamadi (PhD) [2021]
Xiaoran Zheng (M/Res) [2021]
Xinchen Dai (M/Res) [2021]
Zekun Dong (M/Phil) [2021]
Ayda Khosravanihaghighi (PhD) [2022]
Zile Ye (M/Phil) [2022]
Florence Lui (PhD) [2022]
Kochurani Johnson (PhD) [2022]
Newton Amaldoss (PhD) [2023]
Tasmia Zaman (PhD) [2023]
Hao Zhang (PhD) [2023]
Yue Jiang (PhD) [2023]
Gagan Jalandhra (PhD) [2024]

Past Honours

Jonathan Tan (2012) [Shinagawa Refractories Project]
Chung-Pei Lin (2012)
Stephen Ngu (2013)
Holstein Wong (2013)
Daniel Baxter (2013)
Ali Chour (2013) [Brickworks Project]
Kenny Cheung (2013) [Brickworks Project]
Kylie Pandika (2014)
Ali Boussi (2014) [Brickworks Project]
Martin Yoon (2014) [POSCO Project]
Seok Yong Cho (2014) [POSCO Project]
Gavin Chan (2014) [Brickworks Project]
Lowin Chung (2015)
David Almeida (2015)
Nathan Doran (2015)
Aparna Nair (2015)
Yuan Kai Heo (2015)
Hsin-Kai Chen (2015)
Alexander Ho (2016) [Cochlear Project]
Sarah Pearn (2016)
Angela Le (2016)
Hao Zhang (2016)
Gustad Irani (2016)
Josh Haley (2017) [Brickworks Project]
Helen Reilly (2017)
Benjamin Fishburn (2017) [Brickworks Project]
Christopher Byrnes (2017)
Luisa Schreck (2017)
Kevin Pei (2017) [Cochlear Project]
Andrew Ham (2017)
Jason Irawan (2017)
Gita Naidu (2017)
James Jovanovski (2017)
Chris Tan (2017)
Vicki Zhong (2018) [Cochlear Project]
Alan Cen (2018)
Naomi Ho (2018)
Amanda Chen (2018)
Simon Qi (2018) [Cochlear Project]
Chantelle Malacco (2018)
William Jervis (2018) [Brickworks Project]
Michelle Yeoh (2018) [Brickworks Project]
Zile Ye (2018)
Madi Moar (2019)
Sophie Armstrong (2019) [Cochlear Project]
Carrie Zhu (2019) [Cochlear Project]
Kristin Martinoski (2019)
Jialuo Ke (2019) [ANSTO Project]
Benjamin Muffett (2019) [ANSTO Project]
Vincent Wong (2019) [Brickworks Project]
Keenan Burrough (2019) [ANSTO Project]
Corey Vutukuri (2019)
Liam Olivieri (2019)
Jim Liu (2019) [Cochlear Project]
Thibault de Villenoisy (2020) [ANSTO Project]
Muflih Mandara (2020) [ACARP Project]
Brenda Leung (2020)
David Halim (2020) [Brickworks Project]
Aurpa Bhuiyan (2020) [ANSTO Project]
Amber Liu (2020)
Hung-Juei Tseng (2020)
Tina Majidi (2020) [Cochlear Project]
Bernadette Pudadera (2020) [Cochlear Project]
Edward Whitelock (2021) [ANSTO Project]
Ying Zhang (2021) [MCM Project]
Jacqualine Huynh (2021)
Weiyu Gao (2021)
Kyle Baddack (2021)
Vienna Wong (2021)
Jiachen Jiang (2021) [Cochlear Project]
Lok Wong (2021) [CSIRO Project]
Ewing Chen (2021) [ANSTO Collaboration Project]
Clayton Feng (2021) [Cochlear]
Katherine Firth (2021) [Cochlear]
Victoria Lam (2021) [Cochlear]
Daniel Lu (2021)
Zijun Meng (2021)
Naman Bansal (2021)
Justin Wong (2021)
Kenfond Xuan (2021)
Marcus Miljak (2022) [CSIRO]
Calvin Hoang (2022) [Cochlear]
Jodie Mann (2022) [ANSTO]
Sherry Chen (2022) [ANSTO]
Stephanie Mui (2022) [Brickworks]
Aiden Yap (2022) [Brickworks]
Timothy Oberg (2022) [Cochlear]
Nathan Trinh (2022) [Cochlear]
Victoria-Lee Inthavong (2022) [Cochlear]
Ryan Campbell (2022)
John Zheng (2022) [Cochlear]
Jenny Huang (2022) [ANSTO]
Ratan Venkatesan (2023) [ANSTO]
Frederick Zhang (2023) [ANSTO]
Rebecca Ninan (2023)
Jonathan Ren (2023) [Brickworks]
Jeremiah Mullings (2023) [CSIRO]
David Worton (2023) [Cochlear]
Benny Xing (2023)
Sarra Mourad (2023) [ANSTO]
Elike Atsu (2023) [Cochlear]
Marcus Wong (2023)

Past Masters Coursework

Nima Kharkaneh (2013)
Sou Lee (2014)
Jieyu Wang (2014)
Xuting Ge (2015)
Ying Wang (2015)
Hongyang Ma (2015)
Lingyun Liu (2016)
Qiyuan Shi (2017)
Jiashu Wei (2017)
Selene de Leon Ibarra (2017)
Xichao Zhang (2018)
Yang Hong (2018)
Yiyan Han (2018)
Yucheng Wang (2018)
Dongfang Zhou (2019)
Xinhong Liu (2019)
Chenze Li (2019)
Haoran Ma (2020)
Xiaotong Liu (2021)
Ce Yan (2021)
Quan Liu (2021)
Dinesh Varma (2022)
Liting Zhang (2022)
Suchen Huang (2023)

My Teaching

Teaching Awards

2019: Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence UNSW
2017: Australian Citation Award for Teaching Excellence
2016: Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence UNSW
2015: Faculty of Science Excellence in Teaching Award

Current Courses

MATS4005: Functional Materials and Composites (2020 - )
MATS4002: Design with Advanced Ceramics (2014 - )
MATS6003: Presentation Skills (Masters) (2017 - )

Laboratory Activity Coordinator

MATS1101, MATS1192, MATS2004

Past Courses

MATS3004: Polymer Science and Engineering 1 (2014-2019)
MATS4006: Polymer Science and Engineering 2 (2014-2017)
MATS2294: Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Ceramics (2012)
MATS2183: Refractories (2011)

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Location

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Room 120
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Hilmer Building E10
UNSW
NSW 2052

Contact

+61 2 9385 6038

(02) 9385 6565

koshy@unsw.edu.au

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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0282-5535