Rob Elliman is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the ANU ion-implantation Laboratory (iiLab), a node of the Heavy-Ion Accelerator Capabilty funded by NCRIS (National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy). His research interests include: semiconductor materials and devices; memristive switching in transition metal oxides and its application in neuromorphic computing; and ion-beam modification and analysis of materials.  He has published ~400 papers and several book chapters in these fields, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK).

B.Appl.Sc., M.Appl.Sc., PhD, DSc.

Materials Science and Engineering

• Memristive behaviour in transition metal oxides.
• Memristive devices for neuromorphic computing.
• Nonvolatile memory technology (e.g. ReRAM). 
• 2D materials and their applications
• Semiconductor nanotechnology.

Ion-Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials

• Ion-Implantation.
• Ion-beam synthesis of novel materials (graphene, nanocrystals, etc)
• Ion-beam induced defects and their interactions.
• Novel applications of ion-implantation.
• Radiation damage in reactor materials