Associate Professor Behnam Akhavan is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

He leads the Plasma Bio-engineering Laboratory at the University of Newcastle School of Engineering and the Hunter Medical Research Institute.

Since obtaining his PhD in Advanced Manufacturing from the University of South Australia in 2015, he has held postdoctoral and academic positions at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Fraunhofer Institute of Microtechnology in Germany, and the University of Sydney.

Associate Professor Akhavan’s pioneering work in plasma bio-engineering, with over 90 publications and 3,000+ citations, has driven innovation across healthcare and beyond. He was named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers by Engineers Australia.”