Dr Nisa Valiyaveettil Salim

Biography

Dr Nisa Salim is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering. Her research is focused on engineered materials and composites that provide multiple functionalities such as energy storage, structural health monitoring, and EMI shielding and structural performance. Her research activities are aligned with SUT’s two major research focuses including “Space and Aerospace Technology”, and “The Innovative Planet”. She has published a total of 90+ peer-reviewed research outputs including, 75+ peer-reviewed journal papers (94% in Q1 journals as per SCImago ranking), 4 edited books (in press), 8 book chapters, 3 peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and 1 patent. Nisa won many awards in her research career including the Royal Society of Victoria-Philip Law Award, AINSE Gold Medal for outstanding Ph.D. and Smart Geelong Early Researcher award, Victoria Fellowship, Endeavour Fellowship, Alfred Deakin Fellowship, and many more even with a career break of more than 2 years.  Nisa’s vision is to develop smart, engineered materials that are enablers for digitalization and the internet of things – living materials that sense, actuate, and harvest energy.  Nisa serves as an editorial board member of Elsevier’s Chemical Engineering and also for two MDPI’s Polymers and Journal of Composites Science. She also has been selected for the National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering (NCMSE) of the Australian Academy of Science. She will be representing Early- and mid-career researchers at the National level under the Materials Science and Engineering discipline.