Rob Elliman is a Professor of Physics in the Research School of Physics and Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU) and Director, Ion Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials Node, Australian Heavy-Ion Accelerator Program. His fields of research include: nanotechnology; semiconductor materials science and engineering; and ion-beam modification of materials, in which he has published over 300 papers and several book chapters.

Semiconductor Materials Research

• Memristive behaviour in transition metal oxides.
• Neuristor devices based on Mott memristors.
• Nonvolatile memory technology (e.g. ReRAM). 
• Metal-insulator transition in NbO_x as a memory selector element
• 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.