Rate My Professor Tanju Yildirim

Dr. Tanju Yildirim serves as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University, a position he has held since January 2024. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in 2015 and his Doctorate in 2017 from the University of Wollongong, Australia. After completing his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow for several years, focusing on nonlinear resonators, 2D materials, and semiconductor physics. From 2020 to 2022, he was a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. He then continued at NIMS as an International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) fellow and Senior Researcher in the Olfactory Sensors Group within the Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterials.

Yildirim's academic interests center on nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS), nonlinear mechanics, sensors and actuators, acoustics, and olfaction. His research explores 2D semiconductors, van der Waals heterostructures, energy harvesters, olfactory sensors, gas sensing at low-ppm concentrations, and nanoscale engineering of non-uniform biaxially strained domes in transition metal dichalcogenides. He has published extensively in prestigious journals, with key works including 'Many-body complexes in 2D semiconductors' (Advanced Materials, 2019), 'A review on performance enhancement techniques for ambient vibration energy harvesters' (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017), 'Evidence of the direct-to-indirect band gap transition in strained two-dimensional WSe2, MoSe2, and MoS2' (Physical Review Research, 2020), 'Optical harmonic generation in 2D materials' (Advanced Functional Materials, 2022), 'Enhanced interactions of interlayer excitons in free-standing heterobilayers' (Nature, 2022), and recent publications such as 'Audible sensing of low-ppm concentration gases' (2024), 'Sensing signal augmentation by flow rate modulation of olfactory sensors' (2024), 'Enhancing 2D Photonics and Optoelectronics with Artificial Metastructures' (2024), and 'Nanoscale engineering of non-uniform biaxially strained domes' (2025). His scholarship has garnered over 2,600 citations, underscoring his contributions to nanotechnology, photonics, optoelectronics, and advanced chemical sensing technologies.