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Understanding mechanisms driving the spread of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to global human health. This project will dissect the mechanisms that govern the movement of antibiotic resistance genes between bacterial pathogens.
- Supervisor
- Dr Brian Forde
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Advanced all-Iron flow batteries for stationary energy storage
Improve the performance of Iron flow battery by engineering the electrode-electrolyte interface with functional materials.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Bin Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Control of an Advanced Flexible Chain-die Forming Process
Design and validate the control system for Advanced Flexible Chain-die forming, a novel UQ-patented forming process for new families of lighter, stronger, cheaper and greener high strength parts.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Meehan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Digital chemistry and catalysis: redefining reactions in confined systems
Understand and manipulate digital chemical reaction catalysis and molecular self-assembly within Alternating Current Electro-Hydrodynamic (AC-EHD) confined systems.
- Supervisor
- Professor Matt Trau
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Implementation of A Digital Frailty Index for Acute Care Settings in Queensland
Integrate a digital frailty index into hospital systems for informed decision-making.
- Supervisor
- Dr Adrienne Young
- Location
- Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Single cell technology and its application in immune-related diseases in children
Development of new methodology and application of single-cell genomics to investigate pathogenesis and therapeutic targets for paediatric immunodeficiency, autoimmunity and cancer.
- Supervisor
- Professor Di Yu
- Location
- Centre for Children's Health Research - South Brisbane
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
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