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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Engineering Nanomembranes for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide
Advance the understanding of membrane technologies for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, establish the groundwork for fabricating efficient and scalable membranes.
- Supervisor
- Professor Xiwang Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Understanding the cellular mechanisms of venomisation using innovative modelling in zebrafish
Venomous stings and bites can cause severe health problems and even be fatal. This PhD scholarship focuses on developing advanced zebrafish models to better understand how venoms affect the body, and how we can design more effective, mechanism-based treatments.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Anne K Langendijk and Professor Irina Vetter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
The development of lead-free perovskites for flexible photovoltaics
This project aims to develop eco-friendly tin-based perovskite solar cells, offering sustainable and battery-free solution for portable electronics. In addition to lab-scale prototype demonstration, this project expects to validate mass production on flexible substrates and their integration with wireless devices.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peng Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Characterising blood oxygenation changes in functional human brain imaging
This project aims to characterise and image the human vasculature in vivo that underlies functional brain mapping techniques, which can blur and mask the accurate mapping of human cognition. Expected outcomes include a detailed map of the blood vessel anatomy of the living human brain, and vascular models of functional brain signals in space and time.
- Supervisor
- Professor Markus Barth and Dr Saskia Bollman
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering
Nanotechnologies for Tuberculosis detection and diagnostics
This project will develop nanotechnologies to capture and sequester Tuberculosis (TB) from clinical samples to identify and characterise TB, making it quicker to diagnose drug-resistant TB.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Blaskovich and Dr Sanjaya KC
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences
Behind the screens: Interrogating digital service design and delivery
This project aims to investigate how policy-makers in Australia understand digital service delivery, and how this understanding shapes the design and implementation of ethical and effective digital services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Ball
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Behind the screens: Interrogating digital service design and delivery
This project aims to investigate how policy-makers in Australia understand digital service delivery, and how this understanding shapes the design and implementation of ethical and effective digital services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Ball
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society
Building a Trustworthy Information Recommendation System
Build a trustworthy information recommender system by spearheading the design and development of cutting-edge LLM4Rec techniques, misinformation filters, privacy protection mechanisms.
- Supervisor
- Professor Hongzhi Yin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Crystallisation regulation of tin halide perovskites for eco-friendly optoelectronics
This project aims to design novel crystallisation regulation strategies to fabricate high-quality tin-based perovskite thin films, unlocking next-generation low-cost photovoltaic technologies.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peng Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Developing New Polymeric Materials for Manufacture of Computer Chips
Develop new polymers to enable the next generation of computer chips. This exciting project combines advanced chemical approaches with cutting-edge technology.
- Supervisor
- Professor Andrew Whittaker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences