Shaghik Atakaramians

Dr Shaghik Atakaramians is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Sydney. She is the founding leader of Terahertz Innovation Group and Laboratory at UNSW. Currently she serves as an Associate Editor of APL Photonics, AIP publishing. She is a senior IEEE and senior OPTICA member. She is the recipient of IRMMW-THz 2024 Zhenyi Wang Award for Excellence of her outstanding contributions to the Science of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves. Dr Atakaramians was a Scientia Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from 2018-2022. She was awarded ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) in 2014 on Terahertz metamaterial waveguides. She worked at the Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) at the University of Sydney from 2011-2017 as a postdoctoral and research fellow. She also worked for The Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) 2012-2014. Shaghik Atakaramians received her PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with a Certificate of Merit from the Dean in 2011. Her PhD thesis has won the Gertrude Rohan Memorial Prize and 2011 University Doctoral Research Medal for outstanding research. She received her Bachelor's degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) and the Master's degree from University of Tehran. Terahertz (THz) radiation and its application, THz waveguides/fibres, THz metawaveguides in particular topologically protected waveguides, THz planar waveguide based devices for wireless communications (hybrid and reflection free), Electromagnetics, Metamaterial, metasurfaces and metadevices