Rakesh Joshi
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Research interests
Rakesh Joshi is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, where he leads the Graphene Research Group (www.teamgraphene.org) and serves as Theme Leader for Energy and Environment. He is also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation (COE-CSI). Before joining UNSW, he was a Marie Curie International Fellow with Nobel Laureate Sir Andre Geim at the University of Manchester. A/Prof Joshi has published over 130 journal articles, including 95+ as lead or first author, and holds five international patents. His work has earned prestigious international fellowships, including the Marie Curie Fellowship, JSPS Fellowship, Humboldt Fellowship, and the Vaibhav Fellowship from the Government of India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Chartered Chemist.
Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials, Membrane and Separation Technologies, Functional Materials, 2D Materials, Graphene Applications, Membranes
Selected publications (since 2023)
Nature Communications (2022); PNAS 2025; Advanced Science (2025); Advanced Materials (2023); Small Structures (2024)-1; Small Structures(2024)-2; Small 2024; Carbon (14 papers: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024); Journal of Membrane Science (2019, 2023, 2025); Desalination (2022, 2026)
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Rakesh Joshi is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney, where he leads the Graphene Research Group (www.teamgraphene.org) and serves as Theme Leader for Energy and Environment. He is also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon
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