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Scholarship-funded research projects
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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
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
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
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
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
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