Prince Philip Professor of Technology

Academic Division: Electrical Engineering

Telephone: +44 1223 7 48312

Email: gm603@cam.ac.uk

Publications

Research interests

Prof. Malliaras' research is on bioelectronics. He leads a group of scientists, engineers and clinicians who study the fundamental processes that take place at the abiotic/biotic interface and develop better tools for healthcare. Research themes include 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.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”, Sci. Adv. 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”, Sci. Adv. 7, eabg7833 (2021).
• C.M. Proctor, A. Slézia, A. Kaszas, A. Ghestem, I. del Agua, A.-M. Pappa, C. Bernard, A. Williamson, and G.G. Malliaras, “Electrophoretic drug delivery for seizure control”, Sci. Adv. 4, eaau1291 (2018).
• P. Gkoupidenis, D.A. Koutsouras, and G.G. Malliaras, “Neuromorphic device architectures with global connectivity through electrolyte gating”, Nature Comm. 8, 15448 (2017).
• I. Uguz, C.M. Proctor, V.F. Curto, A.M. Pappa, M.J. Donahue, M. Ferro, R.M. Owens, D. Khodagholy, and G.G. Malliaras, “A microfluidic ion pump for in vivo drug delivery”. Adv. Mater. 29, 1701217 (2017).
• J. Rivnay, S. Inal, B.A. Collins, M. Sessolo, E. Stavrinidou, X. Strakosas, C. Tassone, D.M. Delongchamp, and G.G. Malliaras, “Structural control of mixed ionic and electronic transport in conducting polymers”, Nature Comm. 7, 11287 (2016). 
• J. Rivnay, P. Leleux, M. Ferro, M. Sessolo, A. Williamson, D.A. Koutsouras, D. Khodagholy, M. Ramuz, X. Strakosas, R.M. Owens, C. Benar, J.-M. Badier, C. Bernard, and G.G. Malliaras, “High performance transistors for bioelectronics through tuning of channel thickness”, Sci. Adv. 1, e1400251 (2015).
• M. A. Williamson, J. Rivnay, L. Kergoat, A. Jonsson, S. Inal, I. Uguz, M. Ferro, A. Ivanov, D.T. Simon, M. Berggren, G.G. Malliaras, and C. Bernard, “Controlling epileptiform activity with organic electronic ion pumps”, Adv. Mater. 27, 3138 (2015).
• D. Khodagholy, J.N. Gelinas, T. Thesen, W. Doyle, O. Devinsky, G.G. Malliaras, and G. Buzsáki, “NeuroGrid: recording action potentials from the surface of the brain”, Nature Neurosci. 18, 310 (2015).
• D. Khodagholy, J. Rivnay, M. Sessolo, M. Gurfinkel, P. Leleux, L.H. Jimison, E. Stavrinidou, T. Herve, S. Sanaur, R.M. Owens, and G.G. Malliaras, “High transconductance organic electrochemical transistors”, Nature Comm. 4, 2133 (2013).
• D. Khodagholy, T. Doublet, P. Quilichini, M. Gurfinkel, P. Leleux, A. Ghestem, E. Ismailova, T. Herve, S. Sanaur, C. Bernard, and G.G. Malliaras, “In vivo recordings of brain activity using organic transistors”, Nature Comm. 4, 1575 (2013).

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 New York Academy of Sciences (Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists), the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont, and with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Linköping, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and serves as a Deputy Editor of Science Advances. He is the Director of the EPSRC IRC in Targeted Delivery for Hard-to-Treat Cancers.

Prof. Malliaras is a co-author of 300+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 42,000 citations. His h-index is 111 (google scholar, 02/23).