Professor Jagadish was born and educated in India and worked in India and Canada, prior to moving to Australia in 1990.
He is currently a Federation Fellow, Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Nanotechnology and Photovoltaics Group in the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University.
He is also Convenor of the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network, Director (ACT Node) of Australian National Fabrication Facility and serves as President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC).
Prof. Jagadish serves on editorial boards of 12 international journals in addition to being a Founding Editor of Online Journal of Nanotechnology, Editor of IEEE Electron Device Letters, Editor of Progress in Quantum Electronics. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (2003-2008) and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2000-2005).
He advises many high tech companies in Australia and overseas and collaborated with scientists from 20 countries.
His research interests include quantum dots, nanowires, quantum dot lasers, quantum dot photodetectors, quantum dot photonic integrated circuits, photonic crystals, THz photonics, plasmonics and third generation Photovoltaics.
He has published more than 550 research papers (380 journal papers), holds
5 US patents, co-authored a book, co-edited a book and edited eleven conference proceedings and guest edited special issues of 5 journals. He chaired many international conferences and served on many professional society committees.
He won the 2000 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
(IEEE) Millennium Medal and received Distinguished Lecturer awards from both IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and IEEE Electron Devices Society and Peter Baume Award from the ANU.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, IEEE, American Physical Society, American Association of Advancement of Science, Optical Society of America, SPIE-the International Society for Optical Engineering, the Electrochemical Society, American Vacuum Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Institute of Nanotechnology (UK), the Institute of Engineering and Technology (UK) and the Australian Institute of Physics.