Prince Philip Professor of Technology

Academic Division: Electrical Engineering

Telephone: +44 1223 7 48312

Email: gm603@cam.ac.uk

Publications

Research interests

Prof. Malliaras leads a group of scientists, engineers and clinicians who study the fundamental processes at the abiotic/biotic interface and develop better tools for healthcare. He is interested in the development and translation of implantable and wearable devices that interface with electrically active tissues, with applications in neurological disorders and brain cancer.

Click here to access the website of the Bioelectronics Laboratory.

Recent opinions

• M. Berggren and G.G. Malliaras, "How conducting polymer electrodes operate", Science 364, 233 (2019).
• J. Rogers, G.G. Malliaras, and T. Someya, "Biomedical devices go wild", Sci. Adv. 4, eaav1889 (2018).

Recent reviews

• J. Rivnay, S. Inal, A. Salleo, R.M. Owens, M. Berggren, and G.G. Malliaras, "Organic electrochemical transistors", Nature Rev. Mater. 3, 17086 (2018).
• J. Rivnay, H. Wang, L. Fenno, K. Deisseroth, and G.G. Malliaras, “Next-generation probes, particles, and proteins for neural interfacing”, Sci. Adv. 3, e1601649 (2017).  
• T. Someya, Z. Bao, and G.G. Malliaras, “The rise of plastic bioelectronics”, Nature 540, 379 (2016).

Recent key papers

• A. Carnicer-Lombarte, A.J. Boys, A. Güemes, J. Gurke, S. Velasco-Bosom, S. Hilton, D.G. Barone, and G. G. Malliaras, "Ultraconformable cuff implants for long-term bidirectional interfacing of peripheral nerves at sub-nerve resolutions", Nature Communications 15, 7523 (2024).
• B.J. Woodington, J. Lei, A. Carnicer-Lombarte, A. Güemes-González, T.E. Naegele, S. Hilton, S. El-Hadwe, R.A. Trivedi, G.G. Malliaras, and D.G. Barone, "Flexible circumferential bioelectronics to enable 360-degree recording and stimulation of the spinal cord", Science Advances 10, eadl1230 (2024).
• C. Dong, A. Carnicer-Lombarte, F. Bonafè, B. Huang, S. Middya, A. Jin, X. Tao, S. Han, M. Bance, D.G. Barone, B. Fraboni, and G.G. Malliaras, "Electrochemically actuated microelectrodes for minimally invasive peripheral nerve interfaces", Nature Materials (2024).
• S.T. Keene, A. Rao, and G.G. Malliaras, "The relationship between ionic-electronic coupling and transport in organic mixed conductors", Science Advances 9, eadi3536 (2023).
• S.T. Keene, J.E.M. Laulainen, R. Pandya, M. Moser, C. Schnedermann, P.A. Midgley, I. McCulloch, A. Rao, andG.G. Malliaras, "Hole-limited electrochemical doping in conjugated polymers", Nature Materials 22, 1121 (2023).
• A.E. Rochford, A. Carnicer-Lombarte, M. Kawan, A. Jin, S. Hilton, V.F. Curto, A.L. Rutz, T. Moreau, M.R.N. Kotter, G.G. Malliaras, and D.G. Barone, “Functional neurological restoration of amputated peripheral nerve using biohybrid regenerative bioelectronics”, Science Advances 9, eadd8162 (2023).
• B.J. Woodington, V.F. Curto, Y.-L. Yu, H. Martínez-Domínguez, L. Coles, G.G. Malliaras, C.M. Proctor, and D.G. Barone, “Electronics with shape actuation for minimally invasive spinal cord stimulation”, Science Advances 7, eabg7833 (2021).

Biography

George Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology at the University of Cambridge. He received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece) in 1991, and a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, cum laude, from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1995. After postdocs at the University of Groningen and at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (New York) in 1999. From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He moved to the Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne (France) in 2009, where he started the Department of Bioelectronics and served as Department Head. He joined the University of Cambridge in 2017.

Prof. Malliaras' research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognized with awards from the European Academy of Sciences (Blaise Pascal Medal), the Materials Research Society (Mid-Career Researcher Award), the New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists), the US National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development Award), and DuPont (Young Professor Award). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping (Sweden), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Materials Research Society, Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Malliaras is a co-author of 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 52,000 citations. His h-index is 123 (google scholar).