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English: Javad Foroughi is a Senior Research Fellow at Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong and a recipient of Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship. Dr Foroughi received the B.S. and MS degree in Engineering (Fibre Science - Textile Chemistry) in 1997 Iran and the PhD degree in Material Engineering from School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia in 2009. Dr Foroughi has pioneered the field of electrofunctional materials and he is widely acknowledged as the inventor of electrochemical torsional actuators based on carbon nanotube yarn (published in Science 2011). His research focuses on the development of electrofunctional nano-materials for actuation, sensing, smart textiles and energy conversion. Dr Foroughi is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology whose current research focuses in part on developing new technologies for harvesting and storing energy, new types of artificial muscles, the fabrication, characterization and application of carbon nanotube, graphene yarns, sensors, new material synthesis, and fundamental structure-properties relationships for materials. Dr Foroughi has published more than 150 articles and a growing national and international recognition through various awards and invited presentations. In addition Dr Foroughi has supervised 15 PhD students.