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PhD Physics (University of Houston), Bachelor of Science (Hons) (University of Delhi), Master of Science (University of Delhi), Grad Cert in Higher Ed (University of Queensland), Bachelor of Science (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Background Soniya is a device physicist with extensive experience in fabricating flexible electronic devices for various applications. At QUT, Soniya’s work is focussed on optoelectronic and bio-electronic interface devices for developing sensors including biosensors for bioelectronic and bionic applications. Before joining QUT, Soniya worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof Paul Burn at Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics, University of Queensland. In 2015, Soniya was awarded QUT’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics and in 2018 Soniya transitioned to a faculty position at QUT. Soniya completed her Ph.D. at the University of Houston (UH), Texas, USA and she also holds two Master degree in Physics; one from UH and another from University of Delhi, India. Soniya is also a passionate science communicator and engages in various engagement and outreach activities such as hosting high school students for QUT’s VC STEM Camps, visiting regional QLD for science activities as part of National Science Week and inspiring school students at The ConocoPhillips Science Experience, etc.
Research areas
- Bioelectronics and biosensors - organic thin film transistors for bio-interface electronics for applications in bioelectronics and biosensors.
- Organic optoelectronic devices – device physics and applications.
- Electronic devices for non-invasive sensing technologies.
PhD positions are available for the above research areas. Interested candidates can contact Soniya at soniya.yambem@qut.edu.au
Organic electronics device laboratory
Soniya’s projects are focused on organic/thin film devices for applications in energy and biomedical applications and therefore infrastructure or fabrication and testing of these devices are critical. After joining QUT, she worked on establishing a device fabrication and testing facility and benchmarked it against performances for standard devices. The device laboratory at QUT is now fully functional for fabrication and testing of organic electronic devices including organic solar cells, organic light emitting diodes and organic thin film transistors.
Career history
- 2022- current Associate Professor
- 2019-2022 Senior Lecturer in Physics
- 2018-2019 Lecturer in Physics
- 2015-2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, QUT, Australia
- 2012-2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UQ, Australia
- 2011-2010 Doctoral Research, UH, USA
Additional information
Professional service
- 2017-2018: Organising Committee, The 42nd Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Jan 30 – Feb 2, 2018
- 2016: Lead academic, VC STEM camp project "Organic Electronics". QUT
- 2015: Lead academic, VC STEM camp project “Sourcing Solar”, QUT
- 2015: Convener (Sponsorship Organizer), Women in Technology workshop on 3D printing, QUT
- 2015: Invited Speaker “At the cutting edge”, WOW (Women of the World) Festival, Brisbane, Australia
- 2010-2011: Science Engineering Fair of Houston, Texas: Judge for science projects and exhibitions of high school students
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Chosen by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) as one of Queensland's most outstanding scientists for achievements in the area of scientific research and communication.
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2021
- Details
- QUT Centre for Biomedical Technologies MCR Scheme
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- UA-DAAD Australia - Germany Joint Collaboration Research Scheme (2021-2022)
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Young Scientist, Australian-China Young Scientist Exchange Program
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- QUT IHBI MCR Scheme
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- QUT VC Performance Award
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship
- Arthur, J. & Yambem, S. (2022). Detection of H2O2 with Hygroscopic Insulator Organic Thin Film Transistor. Advanced Materials Technologies, 7(4). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230033
- Arthur, J., Pandey, A., Nunzi, J. & Yambem, S. (2022). Insight into OTFT Sensors Using Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(4), 5709–5720. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229750
- Arthur, J. & Yambem, S. (2022). Ion Sensitivity of Hygroscopic Insulator Field Effect Transistors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4(2), 842–849. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230032
- Arthur, J., Cole, C., Pandey, A. & Yambem, S. (2021). Stable crosslinked gate electrodes for hygroscopic insulator OTFT sensors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9(26), 8169–8178. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212091
- Cole, C., Kunz, S., Shaw, P., Thoebes, N., Baumann, T., Blasco, E., Blinco, J., Sonar, P., Barner-Kowollik, C. & Yambem, S. (2020). A printable thermally activated delayed fluorescence polymer light emitting diode. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8(37), 13001–13009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/206101
- Arthur, J., Chaudhry, M., Woodruff, M., Pandey, A. & Yambem, S. (2020). Effect of gate conductance on hygroscopic insulator organic field-effect transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 6(5). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/199915
- Burns, S., MacLeod, J., Do, T., Sonar, P. & Yambem, S. (2017). Effect of thermal annealing Super Yellow emissive layer on efficiency of OLEDs. Scientific Reports, 7, 1–8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103046
- Yambem, S., Timm, J., Weiss, M., Pandey, A. & Marschall, R. (2017). Sulfonated mesoporous silica as proton exchanging layer in solid-state organic transistor. Advanced Electronic Materials, 3(12), 1–10. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112539
- Yambem, S., Ullah, M., Tandy, K., Burn, P. & Namdas, E. (2014). ITO-free top emitting organic light emitting diodes with enhanced light out-coupling. Laser and Photonics Reviews, 8(1), 165–171. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86726
- Ullah, M., Tandy, K., Yambem, S., Aljada, M., Burn, P., Meredith, P. & Namdas, E. (2013). Simultaneous enhancement of brightness, efficiency, and switching in RGB organic light emitting transistors. Advanced Materials, 25(43), 6213–6218. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86735
- Title
- ARC ITTC (CTET) for Cell and Tissue Engineering Technologies
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- IC190100026
- Start year
- 2019
- Keywords
- Title
- High Performance Inks for Solution Based Organic Light Emitting Diodes Manufacturing
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP170100387
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- A low energy k-resolved inverse photoelectron spectrometer to investigate electronic states of organic molecular materials
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin, Associate Professor Jennifer MacLeod
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Anthony O'Mullane
- Ink-jet printable thermally activated delayed fluorescent polymers for organic light emitting diodes (2023)
- Advanced Polymer Inks for Solution-Based OLED Manufacturing (2022)
- Hygroscopic Insulator Organic Field Effect Transistor Sensors (2022)
- Enhancing the Electrical Performance of the Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer Based Organic Field Effect Transistors through Device Engineering for Electronic Applications (2021)
- Interplay of Singlet and Triplet Excitons in Organic Semiconductor Heterojunctions (2021)