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Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats
Develop a generalised validated mathematical model for rail studs, and in particular to examine how this mechanism differs from that for rail squats.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Meehan and Dr Aditya Khanna
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Photodynamic therapy for periodontal disease in companion animals
Develop a periodontal disease mouse infection model for proof-of-concept efficacy testing of photodynamic therapy compounds with antimicrobial activity against oral pathogens.
- Supervisor
- Professor Conny Turni and Dr Jaya Seneviratne
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences
AI in the detection and diagnosis of preclinical and early osteoarthritis
Develop and validate novel AI algorithms for measuring cartilage and detecting early cartilage changes in knee osteoarthritis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Shekhar Chandra
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Engineering Anode Interfaces for Aqueous Aluminium Batteries
Advance aqueous Al battery technology by engineering stable anode interphase and interfaces.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xiaodan Huang and Professor Chengzhong (Michael) Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Molecular Discovery and bioengineering of innovative biologics to detect pandemic threat pathogens, new virus variants and emerging viruses
Explore the molecular discovery and bioengineering of innovative biologics for the detection of pandemic threat pathogens, such as Sars Cov2, SCV2 variants and influenza.
- Supervisor
- Dr Christopher Howard and Dr Kym Lowry
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences
Quantitative live imaging of neural tube formation
Use live imaging approaches to investigate neural tube formation in a novel transgenic quail model.
- Supervisor
- Dr Yanina Alvarez and Dr Melanie White
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Superfluid physics
Improve our understanding of (quantum) turbulence, and its quantum to classical crossover, by studying quantized vortex dynamics in superfluid helium.
- Supervisor
- Dr Christopher Baker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Physical sciences
Pipelines to model immune signalling networks in barrier tissue protection
Bioinformatically model mucosal epithelial-immune pathways for protection and disease prevention.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gabrielle Belz and Dr Kelvin Tuong
- Location
- Dutton Park Campus
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Adaptive product design, fabrication, and optimisation from variable fibre feedstocks for timber manufacture
Advance the Australian-sawn softwood timber industry by developing innovative digital design and optimization methods for effective utilization of non-standard timbre sources.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dan Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Improving the Effectiveness of Large Language Models
Explore new techniques to improve the effectiveness of LLMs.
- Supervisor
- Professor Shane Culpepper
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences