Dr. Shimul Kanti Nath is a Senior Research Associate (academic staff level B) at UNSW Sydney working at the intersection of electronic materials, nanoelectronics, and optoelectronic devices. His research focuses on oxide-based memristors, photodetectors, and emerging hardware technologies for next-generation remote sensing, adaptive electronics, and brain-inspired computing.

He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Materials Engineering from The Australian National University in 2021, where he addressed fundamental challenges in semiconductor device physics, including identifying the origin of snapback negative differential resistance in metal-oxide-metal devices and developing innovative methods to visualise conductive filaments in memristive systems. 

Dr. Nath was subsequently awarded the prestigious Forrest Prospect Fellowship from the Forrest Research Foundation. During this fellowship and subsequent appointments, he delivered several pioneering advances in electronic materials and devices, including the development of novel bolometric materials, wavelength-tuneable memristor-based oscillators, high-efficiency photodiodes, and advanced oxide memristor technologies. His first-author work on V₃O₅-based memristors was published in Advanced Materials and has attracted strong international attention.

He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles (13 as first author), with more than 670 citations (h-index 15) and a field-weighted citation impact well above the global average. His expertise spans materials synthesis and characterisation, micro/nanofabrication, electrical and optoelectronic device testing, and electrothermal modelling.

Dr. Nath is actively involved in research training and supervision. He currently serves as primary supervisor for three Master’s students and as secondary supervisor for one MPhil and one Ph.D. candidate. He maintains a broad international and national research network, collaborating with researchers at institutions including UC Santa Cruz (USA), NAIST (Japan), Tianjin University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, SUSTech (China), CNRS (France), and across Australia with ANU, UWA, University of Melbourne, RMIT, ANSTO, Curtin University, and UTS.