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Scholarship-funded research projects
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mRNA cancer vaccines
Involve design and testing of personalised mRNA cancer vaccines that can provoke robust and durable immune responses.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Seth Cheetham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
New scalable organic synthesis methods based on electrolysis
Work on a project dealing with the development of novel synthetic electrochemical methods and their transfer to scalable flow systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Cantillo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Novel electronic interconnects for reliability under extreme thermal cycling
This project aims to design and characterise novel interconnect alloys capable of withstanding extreme temperature fluctuations, ensuring reliability for next-generation electronic applications.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Fu Tan and Professor Kazuhiro Nogita
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Co-developing solutions to address climate-driven loss and damage in the Pacific
Climate impacts are accelerating. Partner with Pacific communities to co-develop, implement, and evaluate locally grounded solutions to loss and damage, informing policy and practice.
- Supervisor
- Professor Karen McNamara
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society, Indigenous studies
Investigating training population designs to enhance genomic prediction accuracy
Using genotype and phenotype data for flowering and branching traits, measure for a large Arabidopsis Nested Association Mapping experiment. Opportunities to jointly optimise training population designs and genomic prediction models will be investigated for the potential to enhance within and between cross genomic prediction accuracy.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Cooper and Dr Pushpavalli Raju
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Mathematical sciences
First Nations perspectives: Curse and cure of deadly venoms
Engage with First Nations communities to discover and exchange Traditional Knowledge and management of envenomation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jared Miles
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture
Engineering nanomembranes for carbon capture
Advance the understanding of membrane technologies for carbon capture, establishing the groundwork for fabricating efficient and scalable membranes.
- Supervisor
- Dr Min Liu and Professor Xiwang Zhang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences
Efficient 3D Human Movements Analysis and Understanding
Develop algorithms to automatically analyse human sports quality and performance from multiple data sources, including different views and imaging devices.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Integrating external wall systems into the fire safety strategy
The goal of this project is to explore the framework of an explicitly defined fire safety strategy, and quantify the interaction between various components in a typical fire safety strategy and to develop methodologies by which the results from fire testing across scales can be used to inform the design of EWS to support a holistic fire safety strategy.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor David Lange, Dr Anwar Orabi, Dr Wenxuan Wu and Dr David Morrisset
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Behind the screens: Interrogating digital service design and delivery
This project aims to investigate how policy-makers in Australia understand digital service delivery, and how this understanding shapes the design and implementation of ethical and effective digital services.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Ball
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society