Rate My Professor Sudha Mokkapati

Associate Professor Sudha Mokkapati serves in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, where she joined in 2019. She completed her PhD in Physics at the Australian National University in 2008, with a thesis titled "Selective area epitaxy of (In)GaAs quantum dots for monolithic integration of optoelectronic devices." Earlier, she earned an M.Tech in Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2001 and an M.Sc in Physics from the University of Hyderabad in 1999. Following her doctorate, Mokkapati worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University starting in 2008, developing photon management strategies for thin film solar cells based on amorphous silicon, crystalline silicon, and III-V quantum-dot absorbers. She then held positions as a Super Science Fellow and Research Fellow at the Research School of Physics and Engineering from 2012 to 2016, focusing on nanowire optoelectronic devices. Prior to Monash, she was a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University from 2016 to early 2019.

Mokkapati's research interests center on semiconductor nano-photonics, nano-lasers, and nanostructured solar cells, with expertise spanning lasers, solar cells, nanomaterials, nanostructured materials, photonics, semiconductors, optoelectronics, and III-V semiconductors. Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health and well-being and affordable and clean energy. She has led projects such as rapid point-of-care tests for concussion management, all-electronic platforms for real-time stand-off detection of toxic gases, and low-cost wireless sensors for chemical hazards. Key publications include "An optical study on the enhanced light trapping performance of the perovskite solar cell using nanocone structure" (Scientific Reports, 2024), "Bisphenol A detection using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) field-effect transistor functionalized with DNA aptamers" (Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023), "Intelligent Single-chip Si-FET based E-Nose using Metal and Oxides Functionalization" (IEEE NMDC, 2025), and "Engineering Purcell factor anisotropy for dark and bright excitons in two dimensional semiconductors" (Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2022). Mokkapati serves as Editor-in-Chief of Materials and Sustainability and is a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. She is affiliated with the Materials Research Society and IEEE Photonics Society, and actively supervises PhD students.