The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
— indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit our Study website for PhD program and application information.
High pressure grinding rolls – A revolution in high throughput dewatering
Team: Anthony Stickland, Robin Batterham, Peter Scales
Industry-sponsored PhD position in microfluidics for drug screening applications
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Membrane adsorbers as replacements for resin chromatography
Team: Sandra Kentish
Upstream Processing: intensification, real time analytics and scaling
Team: Sally Louise Gras
Upstream Processing Media Development
Team: Greg Martin
Dislocation-twin boundary interaction in magnesium alloys
Team: Christian Brandl
Engineering greener personal care products: understanding the synergistic interactions between polymer and surfactants in multicomponent emulsions
Team: Ray Dagastine
Tracking nanoparticle assembly into superstructures in real-time.
Team: Ray Dagastine, Eirini Goudeli
Improving flotation of fine valuable lithium minerals through formation of small hydrophobic flocs
Team: George Franks
Biopolymers 4.0: Machine-learning-accelerated multiscale computational biopolymer design and experimental development of an archetypical intraocular device
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Encapsulation beyond microplastics: Sustainable capsules
Team: Ray Dagastine, Joe Berry
Multi-scale cardiac mechanobiology and systems biology
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Artificial Intelligence and Moral Psychology
Team: Eduardo Velloso
Developing a chemical recycling process to upcycle residue plastics
Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Gang Kevin Li
Materials informatics: an intelligent multiscale materials simulation tool for accelerated formulation and in-service life prediction of specialised coatings for defence platforms
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Advancing biofabrication technology through the development of improved bioinks
Team: Daniel Heath, Andrea O'Connor, Greg Qiao
Advancing stem cell manufacturing and tissue engineering using decellularised materials
Team: Daniel Heath, Andrea O'Connor
Biophysics of cell adhesion: discovering how nanoscale features impact the cell response
Team: Daniel Heath, Andrea O'Connor, Ray Dagastine
Creating next-generation coatings for biomedical devices that lead to improved healing
Team: Daniel Heath, Andrea O'Connor, Greg Qiao
Nanoengineering materials to combat antimicrobial resistance
Team: Andrea O'Connor, Daniel Heath
A versatile framework for simulating the structure and dynamics of cytoskeletal networks
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Programmable mechanical metamaterials for soft robotics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Materials informatics: an intelligent multiphysics multiscale computational tool for autonomous in-service life management of fibre-reinforced polymer composite aircraft structures
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Soft matter informatics: intelligent computational material simulation tool for polymer-colloid assemblies
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Combustion chemistry of hydrogen-natural gas mixtures
Team: Yi Yang
Decarbonising the transport sector with renewable hydrogen
Team: Yi Yang
Decarbonising transport with ammonia fuels
Team: Yi Yang
Lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip and disease-on-a-chip technologies
Team: David Collins, Vini Gautam
Multiscale computational nanofluidics
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Soft matter informatics: inverse design engine for block co-polymers
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Ensuring Sustainable Battery Minerals Industry in Australia through Life Cycle Assessment
Team: Wen Li, Assoc Prof Jo Staines, Dr Shahjadi Farjana
Dewatering small hydrophobic flocs
Team: Anthony Stickland
Investigation of water expression of thickened suspensions using high pressure dewatering rolls
Team: Anthony Stickland, Peter Scales
Flotation of fine valuable minerals through formation of small hydrophobic flocs
Team: George Franks
Improving flotation recovery by application of oils to enhance collection of coarse particles with low surface liberation
Team: George Franks
Modelling aggregate size and structure
Team: George Franks
Active matter: a multiscale simulation method for advanced swimmers
Team: Ellie Hajizadeh
Growing and shrinking drops and bubbles: surface forces and transport between drops and bubbles to control formulated emulsions and foams
Team: Ray Dagastine
Microstructure engineering of plant protein: polysaccharide mixtures
Team: Sally Louise Gras, Sally Gras
Computational systems biology and mechanobiology of heart growth
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Bio-carbon flow electrodes for capacitive deionisation of wastewater
Team: Amanda Ellis
DNA polymer hybrid materials
Team: Amanda Ellis
Energy harvesting and storage devices utilising piezoelectricity
Team: Amanda Ellis
Dairy microstructure and microbiology
Team: Sally Louise Gras, Sally Gras Lydia Ong
Graphene-based soft materials
Team: Dan Li
Nanoionics: engineering ion transport with two-dimensional materials
Team: Dan Li
Protein recovery from microalgae
Team: Greg Martin
Combining centrifugation and filtration to minimise cake cracking
Team: Anthony Stickland