Distinguished Professor Karu Esselle

Karu is serving as an expert grant application assessor for the European Science Foundation and has served or serving grant funding agencies in many countries including Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Finland, Australia, Hong Kong, Georgia, South Africa, and Chile. Nevertheless, like many young academics, Karu struggled to get his first large research grant when he was young but now he possesses an exceptional grant application success rate of 73% in the Australian Research Council Discovery scheme - one of the most competitive research grant schemes in the nation with a national success rate around 20%. In this presentation, Karu will discuss things he learnt when preparing his own grant proposals and what he looks for when assessing others’ grant proposals.

Biography:

Karu Esselle is a Distinguished Professor in Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). According to the 2019 Special Report on Research published by The Australian national newspaper, he was the National Research Field Leader in Australia in both Microelectronics and Electromagnetism. Karu is also a Visiting Professor at Macquarie University and previously served there as Director of WiMed Research Centre, Associate Dean – Higher Degree Research, and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council and the Division Executive. Karu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, IEEE and Engineers Australia. 
Karu chaired the prestigious Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) from 2018-20. He has served or is serving many other AP-S committees as well, including Field Awards; New Technology Directions; Member & Geographic Activities; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Committee on Promoting Equality; and Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology. He was selected by AP Society as one of two candidates on the ballot for the 2019 President of the Society. He was an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer and elected Chair of IEEE New South Wales (2016-2017). 
Karu has authored 600+ research publications and his papers have been cited over 10,000 times. His h-index is 51. Since 2002, his research team has been involved with research grants, contracts, and PhD scholarships worth over 20 million dollars, including 15 Australian Research Council grants, without counting the 245 million-dollar SmartSat Corporative Research Centre. His research has been supported by many national and international organizations including the Australian Research Council, Intel, US Air Force, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Australian Department of Defence, Australian Department of Industry, and German and Indian governments. 
Among Karu’s many recent awards is runner-up to 2020 Australian national Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers and 2019 Motohisa Kanda Award for the most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on EMC in the previous five years. His research activities are posted on the web at https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/karu.esselle &http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~esselle/.

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