Dr Vipul Agarwal

NHMRC Peter Doherty Early Career Research Fellow

UNSW School of Chemical Engineering

Dr Vipul Agarwal graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Delhi, India in 2005, MApplSci in Chemistry from University of Tasmania, Australia in 2010, and PhD in Nanobiotechnology from The University of Western Australia, Australia in 2015. He was then a SERB-DST Postdoctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, India from 2016 to 2018. After which he returned to Australia to commence his NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship at the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is a member of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD).

Over the last 3 years, Dr Agarwal has successfully attracted over AUD 0.5M in competitive funding as a Lead Chief Investigator.

Awards and Honors:

2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award (IOP Publishing) – Biomedical Materials

2017 Outstanding Reviewer Award (IOP Publishing) - Nanotechnology

2012 Australian Academy of Science Lindau Fellowship

2010 Tasmanian state AusBiotech-GSK Student Research Excellence Award

Grants:

2018 UNSW-India Collaborative Research Seed Fund

2018 UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme, Australia (co-CI)

2018-2022 NHMRC Early Career Research Fellowship

2017-2020 Science Engineering Research Board- Department of Science and Technology (SERB-DST) National Postdoctoral Fellowship, India

2017-2020 DST Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nano Science and Technology, India (declined for SERB-DST Postdoctoral Fellowship)

2012 Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN) long term visit scholarship, Australia

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

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