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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Solar-powered methanol conversion for on-demand hydrogen production
Achieve emission-free and cost-effective methanol to hydrogen conversion using renewable solar energy via photocatalytic techniques, which focuses on the design of high-performance catalysts.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mu Xiao
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Assessing the mineral security dimensions of poverty
Address a major gap in our understanding of global poverty by assessing for the first time the mineral security dimensions.
- Supervisor
- Professor Daniel Franks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Earth sciences, Economics, Environmental sciences, Human society
Bacterial evolution of antimicrobial resistance in urban water systems
Reveal the evolutionary trajectories of waterborne pathogens and investigate the temporal dynamics of antimicrobial resistance transmission across biofilm pathogens in urban water systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zhigang Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Health sciences
Bias in Data Pipelines and AI Systems
This project builds and evaluates novel methods to track, quantify, and deal with bias in data pipelines and AI, rather than to mitigate or remove it.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Co-designing digital frailty education with health consumers and caregivers
Educate and empower healthcare consumers and caregivers to prevent and manage frailty.
- Supervisor
- Dr Kristiana Ludlow
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Combatting alphaviral disease through the development of chimeric vaccine and diagnostic candidates
Construct chimeric viruses expressing genes of pathogenic alphaviruses from genomes of insect-specific alphaviruses, assess efficacy as vaccines and diagnostics and determine elements of host-restriction.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Jody Peters
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Health sciences
Decipher interleukin-21 signaling and engineer next generation immunotherapies
This project aims to unravel how key cytokine signalling prevents immune cell exhaustion and leverage this understanding to develop new immunotherapeutic strategies.
- Supervisor
- Dr Zhian Chen
- Location
- Frazer Institute, Woolloongabba
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Deciphering the gene regulatory code of ageing to set the stage for therapeutic interventions
Decipher the gene regulatory code and epigenetic mechanisms governing developmental processes and aging, and their links to disease.
- Supervisor
- Dr Marina Naval Sanchez
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological 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
Developing the next generation titanium alloys for additive manufacturing
New titanium alloys will be designed that exhibit favourable microstructures and properties when produced by 3D printing.
- Supervisor
- Dr Michael Bermingham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering