Professor Arnan Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering at RMIT University Director of the RMIT Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) and is Director of the recently Announced ARC Centre of Excellence for Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). He has published more than 700 research papers including publications in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, and Nature Photonics, among many others.
He is a senior member of the IEEE SPIE and is a Fellow of Optica. He is a highly multidisciplinary researcher working in micro-chip technologies combining light, sound, fluids, and electronics with applications spanning radar systems for defense, high-speed fiber optic communications, and point-of-care diagnostic systems for biomedicine. He is enthusiastic about translating technology into the hands of end-users and has dedicated much of his career to building and training diverse teams and comprehensive micro and nanotechnology infrastructure to enable breakthrough discoveries to achieve real-world impact.
