Frank Caruso

Frank Caruso is a Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD degree in 1994 from the University of Melbourne and thereafter conducted postdoctoral research at the CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers in Melbourne from 1994–1997. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany from 1997–2002. He has held ARC Federation Fellowships (2003–2012), an ARC Laureate Fellowship (2012–2017), an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (2018–2022), and an NHMRC Leadership L3 Investigator Fellow (2023–present) at the University of Melbourne. He is an Executive Editor of Chemistry of Materials and on the Editorial Advisory Board of several other scientific journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009, the Royal Society of London in 2018, and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering in 2024.