Professor

Frank Caruso

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Frank Caruso
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Professor Frank Caruso is recognised internationally as a pioneer in the nanoengineering of surface structures through polymer self-assembly, imparting unique functions to colloids, especially for drug delivery and artificial cell research. He is the highest cited chemist in Australia for the last 10-year period and is ranked by citations in the top 2 per cent of chemists worldwide. Frank Caruso has received some $30 million of research funding over the past 10 years. He was appointed as a Federation Fellow in 2001 and reappointed in 2007 for a further 5-year period. He holds a Professorship at the University of Melbourne.

Fields of research

10 TECHNOLOGY 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3106 INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
    • 310607 Nanobiotechnology
32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES
  • 3206 MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
    • 320604 Nanomedicine
40 ENGINEERING
  • 4016 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
  • 4018 NANOTECHNOLOGY

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Chemistry
  • Materials
  • Nanomaterials
  • Polymer Self-assembly

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Professor Frank Caruso, physical chemist and materials scientist

Professor Frank Caruso completed an honours degree in physical chemistry at the University of Melbourne. In 1994 he received a PhD for his research into the dynamics of molecules. He then took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers to study how to modify surfaces to enable the detection of specific molecules.
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