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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Advanced flow battery for synergetic carbon capture and energy storage
Develop a novel flow battery that combines renewable energy storage, CO2 capture, and bromide wastewater treatment into one integrated system. Outcomes include an innovative energy storage solution and advancements in carbon capture and wastewater treatment, contributing to clean energy systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mu Xiao and Associate Professor Bin Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Archaeology and cultural heritage management in risk assessment
Investigate the role of archaeology and cultural heritage management in risk assessment and remedy processes within the mining industry. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Dr John Burton and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies
Cultural heritage's presence in resource sector decision-making
Explore how archaeological and cultural heritage knowledge influences capital investment decisions in the resources sector. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Professor Deanna Kemp and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies
Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural heritage management in the resources sector
Explore how Indigenous people's rights feature in archaeology, social performance, and cultural heritage management policy and practice in the resources sector, and what needs to change. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies
Indigenous rights and cultural heritage in the Australian resources sector.
Explore how Indigenous people's rights feature in archaeology, social performance, and cultural heritage management policy and practice in the resources sector, and what needs to change. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies
Advancing federated learning for unified urban spatio-temporal predictions
This project seeks to develop an advanced learning system for urban spatio-temporal foundation models, enabling robust zero- and few-shot generalisation across heterogeneous datasets and urban domains.
- Supervisor
- Professor Hongzhi Yin and Associate Professor Associate Professor Tong Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
CO₂ valorisation into value-added compounds over iron-based catalysts
Design high-performance iron-based catalysis for CO₂ valorisation, enabling sustainable transformation of carbon emissions into fuels and chemicals through efficient and tunable catalytic pathways.
- Supervisor
- Professor Geoff Wang and Dr Ping Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Sustainable valorisation of seaweeds for high-value biomaterials
Develop an integrated Ulva seaweed biorefinery model by extracting and characterising valuable structural and functional components and identifying circular bioeconomy pathways.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Nasim Amiralian, Dr Sandya Shiranthi Athukorala Athukoralalage and Professor Nick Paul
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Development of a technology to enhance dendritic cell-targeted mRNA vaccine delivery
Develop a protein-based technology to enhance targeted delivery of mRNA vaccines to dendritic cells (DCs) to improve vaccine efficacy and customise immune responses via targeting of different DC subsets.
- Supervisor
- Dr Christopher Howard and Associate Professor Seth Cheetham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Engineering yeast flavours for food and beverages
Engineering yeast flavour profiles for sustainable foods and beverages via high-throughput genome editing and advanced analytics, integrated with metabolic modelling and machine learning.
- Supervisor
- Dr Birgitta Ebert
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering