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CSIRO Industry PhD - Adoption and scaling of novel carbon dioxide removal through enhanced rock weathering in regional Australia
Investigate drivers of a novel technology for carbon dioxide removal and soil rejuvenation, enhanced rock weathering. Expected outcomes include policies and market interventions facilitating adoption. Benefits include contributing to Australia reaching net-zero emissions goal by offering responsible pathways for carbon removal.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tony Heynen and Dr Dr Yuwan Malakar
- Location
- CSIRO Dutton Park, Brisbane
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Built environment and design, Earth sciences, Engineering, Human society
Combating pathogens from biofilms in premise plumbing systems
Assess the interactions and dynamics of opportunistic pathogens and their protozoan hosts within drinking water systems and biofilms, and work towards developing control methods for the removal of these pathogens in drinking water environments.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jianhua Guo and Professor Nicholas Ashbolt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Efficient PFAS removal from contaminated solids
The project aims to achieve efficient PFAS removal using foam fractionation, leveraging PFAS surface activity to concentrate and separate contaminants for scalable, low-energy, and sustainable remediation.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Cheng Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Quantifying Ecological Risks from Flood-borne Contaminants in Nonurban Landscapes
Assess ecological and antimicrobial resistance risks from flood-borne contaminants in nonurban areas, using integrated data analysis to identify exposure pathways, vulnerable species, and risk hotspots.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sudhir Yadav
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Environmental sciences
Renewable energy drived methane conversion
This project designs novel photocatalyst design for efficient solar-driven photothermal catalysis, sustainably converting methane into valuable multi-carbon chemicals.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zhiliang Wang and Dr Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Environmental sciences
Development of traits for low methanogenic forage sorghums
Develop genetic solutions in sorghum for low-emission cattle stockfeed and grazing. Through the use of new breeding technologies, we will trait-stack promising gene edits together to produce novel gene edited (non-GMO) sorghum traits for industry.
- Supervisor
- Dr Karen Massel and Dr Albert Wong
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
SAAFE CRC Horizontal gene transfer in waterborne bacteria with their protozoan hosts
Investigate how protozoal predation affects the frequency and reveal why HGT is enhanced in protists.
- Supervisor
- Professor Jianhua Guo and Professor Nicholas Ashbolt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Plasticity in pre-and post-flowering resource allocation: which breeding strategy for which environment?
Investigation of wheat plasticity for tillering, stem reserves and stay-green across genotypes and environments, with opportunities in crop modelling to assess the breeding value of such traits in production environments.
- Supervisor
- Professor Karine Chenu and Associate Professor Millicent Smith
- Location
- Gatton Campus
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Catalytic dehydrogenation process of liquid organic hydrogen carriers
Focus on facile catalytic dehydrogenation of liquid organic hydrogen carriers by applying Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC) technology, which has the potential to solve the long-term pure hydrogen storage and transport.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Muxina Konarova and Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Multimodal MRI Biomarkers for Motor Neuron Disease
This project will develop and evaluate multimodal MRI biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of motor neuron disease (MND). The successful candidate will integrate imaging measures including structural, diffusion, functional, spectroscopic, and spinal MRI into computational models that capture disease heterogeneity.
- Supervisor
- Dr Thomas B Shaw and Professor Markus Barth
- Location
- St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Health sciences