Rob Elliman is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the ion-implantation node (iiLab) of the NCRIS Heavy-Ion Accelerator Capability. His fields of research include: nanotechnology; semiconductor materials science; neuromorphic computing and ion-beam modification of materials.  He has published over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journal and coference proceeding, with a Google Scholar h-index of 48, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (UK).

Semiconductor Materials Research

• Memristive behaviour in transition metal oxides.
• Neuristor devices based on Mott memristors.
• Nonvolatile memory technology (e.g. ReRAM). 
• Neuromorphic computing
• Semiconductor nanotechnology.

Ion-Beam Modification and Analysis of Materials

• Ion-Implantation.
• Defect engineering in 2D materials.
• Ion-beam induced defects and their interactions.
• Novel applications of ion-implantation.