Mohsen Rahmani, PhD profile page

Mohsen Rahmani is a distinguished professor of optics and photonics and the leader of the Advanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in the UK. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 2020, he joined NTU via the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. Shortly after moving to the UK, he was also awarded the UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Recently, he has secured an ERC Consolidator Grant. His research activities span over light-matter interactions with nanometre-scale particles for applications in flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, and reconfigurable optics. He has received several prestigious awards and prizes, including the Australian Eureka Prize, the Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award. Professor Rahmani has delivered 40+ invited talks, seminars, and keynotes at international conferences and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is the past chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Chapter across the UK and Ireland section (2021-2023) and a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Nanotechnology Council 2024-2025. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).