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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Catalytic converting waste polyolefin into olefin monomers
Recycle waste polymers, such as polyethylene, into valuable olefins through catalytic pyrolysis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Muxina Konarova and Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Leveraging near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique combined with artificial intelligence (AI) in detecting AMR organisms in water
The PhD candidate will test the capacity of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique and artificial intelligence (AI) for detection of an array of bacteria associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that are commonly found in water.
- Supervisor
- Dr Maggy Lord and Associate Professor Patrick Harris
- Location
- St Lucia and Herston
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences
Green Energy-Powered Offshore Aquaculture
Develop advanced modelling and experimental tools to support offshore aquaculture systems powered by green energy through cutting-edge research in nonlinear wave-structure interactions.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Wenhua Zhao and Professor Tom Baldock
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Offshore Renewable Energy: Offshore Wind or Floating Solar
Develop advanced modelling and experimental tools to support floating offshore wind, solar systems through cutting-edge research in nonlinear wave-structure interactions.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Wenhua Zhao and Professor Tom Baldock
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia
Investigate the growing conflict between digitally-coordinated labour and rising heat from climate change, which deeply impacts it but is not accounted for.
- Supervisor
- Dr Luke Munn
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society, Language, communication and culture, Philosophy and religious studies
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
Co-designing healthy food retail best practice actions with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Work with Indigenous storeowners and retailers to translate new evidence into healthy food actions in stores and define systems and policy to ensure these are implemented in all remote Australian stores.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Megan Ferguson
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health sciences
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
Developing peptide-based pain therapeutics
Develop highly selective and potent peptides using a structure-guided approach to target ion channels and receptors involved in pain pathways.
- Supervisor
- Dr Bhavesh Khatri
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences
Disrupting Immune Responses to Reverse Fibrosis
This research aims to elucidate and target the specific immune pathways that drive intestinal fibrosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sumaira Hasnain
- Location
- Translational Research Institute
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences