Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
Mahnaz Shafiei is currently an Associate Professor and former Vice-Chancellor’s Women in STEM Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology. She received a PhD degree from RMIT University in 2011 and followed this with postdoctoral research at Queensland University of Technology and an Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Mahnaz is currently leading Sensing Technology Research at Swinburne, and her research focus is on sensors and nanomaterials and their practical use for environmental and health monitoring. Her research group is currently developing innovative hydrogen gas sensors. In 2023, Mahnaz was awarded an International Hydrogen Research Fellowship as part of the International Hydrogen Research Collaboration Program funded by the Australian Government.