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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
Integrating One Health framework and control strategies to mitigate antimicrobial resistance risk escalated by climate change
Research institutes across Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and the United States will investigate how climate change and extreme weather influence the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance. Using a One Health approach, map risks and guide effective policy and practical interventions
- Supervisor
- Professor Jianhua Guo and Dr Lyman Ngiam
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Computational investigation of nanoparticle dynamics under electrokinetic control in viscoelastic suspensions
Develop and apply advanced computational models of coupled particle-fluid mechanics to uncover new understanding of viscoelastic nanoparticle suspensions under electrostatic forces.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Christopher Leonardi and Dr Travis Mitchell
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Development of high-performance advanced bainitic steels via additive manufacturing
Enhance the mechanical properties of bainitic steels by utilising the typical features of additive manufacturing, which provides high cooling rate, enabling formation of bainitic microstructure throughout the steel parts.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mingxing Zhang and Dr Qiyang Tan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for decarbonisation
This project deploys atomic-scale STM/AFM imaging and spectroscopy of MOFs to pinpoint binding sites and pathways relevant to decarbonisation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peter Jacobson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences