Dr Vipul Agarwal graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India in 2005, MApplSc in Chemistry from University of Tasmania, Australia in 2010, and PhD in Nanobiotechnology from The University of Western Australia, Australia in 2015. In 2016, he joined the Indian Institute of Science, India on the SERB-DST Postdoctoral Fellowship. He returned to Australia in 2018 on NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship and joined the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD) within the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW Sydney. Vipul’s current research interest is in materials engineering especially transition metal dichalcogenides and polymer/GO based nanocomposites and tissue engineering including neuronal and bone regeneration.

PhD, The University of Western Australia, 2015
DST National Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, 2016-2017
NHMRC Fellow, The University of New South Wales, 2018-2022
UNSW Safety Net Fellow, The University of New South Wales, 2022-2024

Since 2015, he has successfully attracted over AUD $1.2M in competitive funding as a Chief Investigator. He has published in high impact journals including ACS Nano, Nanoscale, ACS Applied Materials and Interface and Carbon.

Awards and Honors:

2022 NSW Nyholm Youth Lectureship (The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI))

2021 Young Professional Editorial Board - Particuology (Elsevier)

2018 NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellowship

2016 SERB DST National Postdoctoral Fellowship

2016 DST Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nano Science and Technology

2013 Australian Academy of Science Lindau Fellowship

2010 Tasmanian state AusBiotech-GSK Student Research Excellence Award

Grants:

2022-2024 UNSW Safety Net Fellowship, Australia, main CI

2019-2020 Lincoln Centre Seed Grant, Australia, main CI

2019-2020 UNSW-Manipal Academy of Higher Education Collaborative Seed Grant, Australia, main CI

2019 UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme, Australia, co-CI

2018-2019 Neurotrauma Research Program Grant, Australia co-CI

2018 Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN) long term visit grant, Australia, main CI

2018-2019 UNSW-India Collaborative Research Seed Fund, Australia, main CI

2018 UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme, Australia, co-CI

2018-2022 NHMRC Peter Doherty - Australian Biomedical Early Career Fellowship, Australia, main CI

2016-2019 Science Engineering Research Board- Department of Science and Technology (SERB-DST) National Postdoctoral Fellowship, India, main CI (relinquished for NHMRC ECR Fellowship)

2016-2019 DST Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nano Science and Technology, India, main CI (declined for SERB-DST Postdoctoral Fellowship)

2012 ANN long term visit grant, Australia, main CI

2011- 2012 UQ-UWA Bilateral Research Collaboration Grant, Australia, co-CI

2010 Allied Health Professional Development Grants, Australia, co-CI

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching:

CEIC2004 Industrial Chemistry for Chemical Engineers (T3 2019)

CEIC4003, CEIC4952 Research Thesis

CEIC9003, CEIC9952 Advanced Research Thesis