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| Project Code | UQ Supervisor | IITD Supervisor | Research Themes | Title | Student Type (i/a) | Keywords | Discipline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UQIDAR 00101 | A/Professor Yongping Wei , School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Professor Dhanya C. T., Department of Civil Engineering | RE, TT | Impact of Changing Flood Characteristics on River Morphology | i/a | river morphology, sediment transport, extreme events, climate change | geomorphology, water resources engineering, agricultural engineering, hydrometeorology | Position Filled - Sudeep Banad |
| UQIDAR 00104 | Professor Darren Martin, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Mangala Joshi, Department of Textile Technology | TT | Polymer Nanocomposites for Advanced Gas Barrier Applications | i/a | nanotechnology, nanocomposite, gas barrier, advanced manufacturing | materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, composites | Position Filled - Siddhant Varshney |
| UQIDAR 00108 | Professor Andrew Whittaker, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Sudip Kumar Pattanayek, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT, TS | New Approached to Detection of Pollutants through Hierarchically-structured Molecularly Imprinted Polymers | i/a | chemical sensors, detecting pollutants, molecularly imprinted polymers, polymer chemistry | chemistry, materials synthesis, polymer chemistry, environmental chemistry. | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00109 | Professor Tapan Saha, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Nilanjan Senroy, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Flexibility Assessment and Strengthening of existing conventional power grids for large-scale renewable energy integration ? Theoretical/ Modelling based research. | i | renewable energy, grid integration, power system strength, frequency response | electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in pss/e or pscad, optimisation tools | Position Filled - Akshay Bhyri |
| UQIDAR 00111 | Dr Matthew Bambling, Centre for Digital Health | Professor Singh, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences | TT, TS | Student Classroom Behavioural Issues in India and a Digital health Behaviour Management Intervention for Teachers | i | adolescent, behaviour, classroom, teachers | psychology, education, social sciences, youth | Position Filled - Madhumita Ramakrishna |
| UQIDAR 00112 | Dr Sangeeta Prakash, Agriculture and Food Sciences | Associate Professor Jatindra Sahu, Rural Development and Technology | HA, TT, TS | Controlling the crystallisation in clarified butter (ghee) and its functionalisation for health benefits | a | clarified butter, dairy technology, crystallisation | food science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00113 | Dr Sangeeta Prakash, Agriculture and Food Sciences | Professor Jatindra Kumar, Rural development and Technology | TT, TS | Designing functionalised sweetmeat through 3D food printing | i | 3 dimensional printing, dairy, extrusion, desiccated milk solids | food engineering, chemical engineering, food science & technology, physical chemistry, | Position Filled - Mohammad Bareen |
| UQIDAR 00115 | Professor Robert Henry, QAAFI | Professor K.K. Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Catalytic Conversion of Sugarcane Bagasse into Aromatics and High-Value Platform Chemicals | i/a | catalysis, lignin conversion, biotechnology, biofuel | catalysis, biomass conversion, lignin conversion | Position Filled - Vallari Chourasia |
| UQIDAR 00116 | Dr David Lange, School of Civil Engineering | Professor Vasant Matsagar, Department of Civil Engineering | RE | Life-Cycle Risk Assessment of RC Structures under Earthquake and Fire | i/a | structural engineering, fire response, earthquake response, risk assessment | civil engineering, structural engineering | Position Filled - Akshay Baheti |
| UQIDAR 00119 | Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | FW, TT, TS | Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging in Quantitative Assessment of Plant Hydration Towards Implementing Optimized Irrigation Management in Australia and India | i | terahertz, interferometry, spectroscopy, photonics | optics, electrical engineering, physics, biology | Position Filled - Mayuri Kashyap |
| UQIDAR 00121 | Professor Linda Lua, UQ Protein Expression Facility | Professor Anurag Rathore, Biopharmaceutical Technology | HA | Transitioning to integrated continuous downstream bioprocess for vaccine manufacturing | i | bioprocess, therapeutic agents, vaccine, industry focused projects | chemical engineering | Position Filled - Manya Mittal |
| UQIDAR 00124 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Upadhyayula Sreedevi, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT, TS | Rational Design of highly efficient solar light driven photocatalysts for CO2 conversion to fuels | i/a | solar energy, carbon dioxide, photocatalysis, clean fuel, catalyst | chemical engineering, chemistry, chemical technology, catalysis | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00125 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Upadhyayula Sreedevi, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | Conversion of carbon dioxide to gasoline-range fuels using hierarchical zeolite catalysts | i/a | fuels, carbon dioxide, heterogeneous catalysis, hierarchical zeolite, kinetics, mechanism | chemical engineering, chemistry, nanomaterials | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00126 | Professor David Reutens, Centre for Advanced Imaging | Assistant Professor Anup Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering | HA, TT | Efficient image acquisition for Low Field MRI. | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | ultra low field, mri, magnetic resonance imaging, biomedical imaging | electrical engineering, physics, biomedical engineering, computer science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00128 | Professor David Reutens, Centre for Advanced Imaging | Assistant Professor Anup Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering | TT | Diagnostic and predictive MRI and PET biomarkers in First Seizure and Refractory Epilepsy patients: A machine learning approach. | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | refractory epilepsy, neurosurgery, mri, pet, machine learning | biomedical engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, neuroscience | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00129 | Professor David Reutens, Centre for Advanced Imaging | Assistant Professor Anup Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering | TT | Developing novel metabolic imaging methods to localise epileptogenic tissue | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | mri, brain, metabolic imaging, epilepsy, diagnosis | biomedical engineering, physics chemistry, neuroscience | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00131 | Associate Professor Luke Knibbs, School of Public Health | Associate Professor Sagnik Dey, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences | HA, RE | Health benefits of air pollution mitigation: A comparative assessment of policies for high (India) and low (Australia) exposure regions | i | air pollution, epidemiology, health benefits, exposure modeling | atmospheric science, environmental science, public health, biostatistics | Position Filled - Neha Singh |
| UQIDAR 00132 | Dr Vigya Sharma, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Upasna Sharma, School of Public Policy | RE, TT, TS | Examining the social acceptance of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects in India | i | renewable energy expansion, acquisition and conflict, social impacts, energy access | human geography, development studies, engineering, policy studies | Position Filled - Simran Agarwal |
| UQIDAR 00134 | Professor Hal Gurgenci, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Associate Professor Dibakar Rakshit, Centre for Energy Studies | TS | Assessment and Comparison of Performance of Thermal and Electrical Battery for Renewable Energy Applications | i | energy generation, energy conversion, high temperature energy storage, electricity spillage | renewable energy, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics | Position Filled - Alok Kumar Ray |
| UQIDAR 00137 | Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | FW, TT, TS | Identification of Transgenic Plant Species Using Non-invasive THz Spectroscopy for Advancing Natural and Organic Farming Practices | i | terahertz, plant phenotypes, imaging, agriculture | botany, biochemistry, electrical engineering, physics | Position Filled - Urbi Kundu |
| UQIDAR 00138 | Professor Tom Baldock, School of Civil Engineering | Professor A D Rao, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | RE, TT | Development of probabilistic forecasting system for storm surges and associated coastal inundation. | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | storm surges, tropical cyclones, coastal inundation, numerical model | numerical methods, probabilistic approach, tropical cyclones, storm surges. | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00140 | Associate Professor Zuduo Zheng, School of Civil Engineering | Professor K. Ramachandra Rao, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Developing Effective Traffic Congestion Management Strategies for Road Transport Systems with Traditional, Connected and Automated Vehicles | i/a | driverless vehicles, connected vehicles, traffic congestion | transport engineering, control engineering, mathematics and statistics, computer science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00142 | Professor David Reutens , Centre for Advanced Imaging | Dr Varsha Singh, Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences | HA, RE, TT, TS | Understanding Brain-Behavior link: Using Structural (frontal asymmetry) and Neurochemical (neurotransmitters) Basis of Cognitive and Affective Processing to Improve Prediction of Health-related Outcomes in Epilepsy patients from low socio-economic. | i | frontal lobe functions/ executive functions, epilepsy, cognitive affective processes, endocrine system | neuropsychology (focus: clinical), clinical psychology, neuroscience (focus: cognitive/behavioural), rehabilitation (focus: neuropsychological) | Position Filled - Indupriya Vanchipurackal |
| UQIDAR 00144 | Professor Simon Washington, School of Civil Engineering | Professor K Ramachandra Rao, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Motorized Two-wheeler safety - a comparative risk study of the occupants in Indian and Australian context | i/a | motorized two -wheelers, injury risk, connected vehicles | transportation engineering, statistics, econometrics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00145 | Dr Antonio Bellofatto, School of Economics | Dr Sourabh Paul, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TT, TS | Talent Allocation in the Indian Economy: Measurement and Policy Implications | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | misallocation, labor markets, indian economy, policy design | economics, statistics, mathematics, engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00147 | Dr Gianluca Demartini, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Dr Shrikanta Bedathur, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TT | Knowledge Graph Enrichment for Health Search | i | data science, knowledge graphs, health search, data quality | knowledge graphs, linked data, software engineering, data management | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00152 | Professor Tapan Saha, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Sukumar Mishra, Department of Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | IoT based EV infrastructure: Data Driven Approach for analysis and optimization of Distribution system Operation (DSO) under uncertainties | i | distribution system, electric vehicle, uncertainties | electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in control system, optimisation knowledge | Position Filled- Arnab Bhattacharjee And Venkata Suryakiran Bhamidipati |
| UQIDAR 00155 | Associate Professor Begoña Domínguez , School of Economics | Dr Sourabh Paul, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TT, TS | Technology Regulation in the Macroeconomy: Robots and Artificial Intelligence | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | technology regulation, macroeconomy, taxation, robots, ai | economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00156 | Dr Sisira Edirippulige, Centre for Online Health/Centre for Health Services Research | Professor Vigneswara Llavarasan, Department of Management Studies | TT,TS | Exploring the potential of Health Tech Start-ups in India: A Critical Success Factors Framework | i | health, information and communication technology, business, start-ups | health, information technology, business, information systems | Position Filled - Imon Chakraborty |
| UQIDAR 00157 | Professor Markus Barth, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Anrup Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering | HA, TT | Advancing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Machine Learning | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | mri, medical imaging, cardiac magnetic resonance, image analysis | biomedical engineering, computer science, physics and related, electrical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00158 | Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry | Associate Professor Divya Dwiwedi, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TS | Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.) | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | philosophy, literature, politics, violence | continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, post-colonialism, political philosophy | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00159 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Prof. K.K. Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Non-oxidative catalytic conversion of methane into aromatics over metal impregnated hierarchical zeolite | i | heterogeneous catalysis, methane dehydroaromatization, hierarchical zeolite, intracrystalline mesopores | catalysis, chemical engineering, reaction engineering, zeolite synthesis | Position Filled - Deepti Mishra |
| UQIDAR 00160 | Dr Pratheep Kumar Annamalai, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor K.K Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | Unlocking the potential of lignocellulose plant waste for value added polymer industries, through an integrated biorfinery approach | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | bio-refinery, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, insulation foam and coating materials | chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science/engineering, polymer science/engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00161 | Honorary Professor Raja Jurdak, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Swades De, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Learning-based optimization strategies for sustainable IoT communications | i | edge computing, sustainable iot communications, learning techniques, sparse signal processing | electrical communication engineering, computer engineering/technology, applied mathematics, signal prrocessing | Position Filled - Sushmita Ghosh |
| UQIDAR 00162 | Dr Cristian Maluk, School of Civil Engineering | Prof. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Department of Civil Engineering | RE, TT | Novel hybrid testing for studying seismic and fire behaviour of beam-column joints in reinforced concrete structures | i | structural engineering, reinforced concrete, seismic design, fire safe design | civil engineering, structural engineering | Yazan AbuTahnat |
| UQIDAR 00163 | Professor Glen Corder, Sustainable Minerals Institute | Professor K.K. Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Recovery of Metals from Electronic Waste and Scale-up of the Developed Process | i | electronic waste, leaching, metal recovery, economic analysis | metallurgy, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrochemistry | Position Filled - Ahmad Tabish |
| UQIDAR 00164 | Professor Suresh Bhatia, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Shantanu Roy, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Understanding the mechanism of particle fragmentation, attrition, and agglomeration during coal and/or biomass gasification | i | gasification, fluidized bed, mathematical modeling in chemical engineering, coal, agglomeration, clean coal technologies, co2 abatement | chemical engineering, cfd, mechanical engineering, physics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00165 | Professor Matt Trau, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Dr Sandeep K. Jha, Department of Biomedical Engineering | HA, TT | Microfluidic devices for biomedical application | i | micro-total-analysis system, biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, point-of-care devices | biotechnology, analytical, microfabrication, nanotechnology | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00166 | Professor David Reutens, Centre for Advanced Imaging | Professor Rahul Garg, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | HA, TT | Information flow in the normal and epileptic brain | i/a | neuroimaging, epilepsy, data science, machine learning | biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science/electronics, neuroscience/neuroimaging, cognitive science/physiology | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00167 | Professor Chengzhong Yu, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Ashok Ganguli, Department of Chemistry | HA | Synthesis and applications of non-viral gene vectors | i note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | nanotechnology; gene delivery; functional materials, asymmetry nanoparticle | nanotechnology, biomedical gene delivery | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00168 | Associate Professor Abdullah Mamun, Institute for Social Science Research | Associate Professor Kamlesh Singh, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | FW, TS | Early Life Social, Economic and Family Predictors of the Trajectory of Malnutrition and Cognitive Development from Childhood to Adulthood | i/a | early life, longitudinal study, malnutrition, cognitive development | statistics, economics, population studies or psychology | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00170 | Professor Craig Williams, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Professor Nidhi Jain, Department of Chemistry | TT | Developing new oxidants for catalytic dehydrogenation and C-H insertion | i note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | organic synthesis, catalysis, oxidation, c-h insertion | organic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, organic synthesis, catalysis | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00171 | Professor Debra Bernhardt, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Associate Professor M. Ali Haider, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Rational Design of Materials for Energy Applications | i/a | material design, computational screening, nanotechnology, dft, md | chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, material science and engineering, nanotechnology | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00172 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Associate Professor Pravin Ingole, Department of Chemistry | TT | Electrospun textile materials modified with metal oxide nanoparticles for electrochemical capacitor applications | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | nanomaterials, flexible electrochemical capacitors, materials science, electrospinning | physical chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00173 | Professor Gordon Southam, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Assistant Professor Lucinda Doyle, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology | TT | Investigating the capacity for extracellular electron transfer in psychrophilic microorganisms isolated from Antarctica | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | microbiology, extremophile, psychrophile, electrochemistry | microbiology, biotechnology, chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00174 | Professor Gordon Southam, , School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Assistant Professor Lucinda Doyle, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology | TT | Investigation of the interface between electrochemically-active microorganisms and metals | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | microbiology, materials, metals, electrochemistry | microbiology, biotechnology, materials science, geochemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00175 | Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor V Haridas, Department of Chemistry | HA | Functionalisation of Antimicrobial Peptides | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | antibiotic, antimicrobial resistance, peptide synthesis, medicinal chemistry | organic synthetic chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00176 | Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor Nidhi Jain, Department of Chemistry | HA | New Approaches to Discover Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bacteria | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | antibiotic, organic synthesis, antimicrobial resistance, medicinal chemistry | organic synthetic chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00177 | Dr Paul Shaw, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Assistant Professor Sunil Kumar, Department of Physics | TT | Unravelling the charge generation pathways in organic and hybrid solar cells | i note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | solar cells, organic electronics, spectroscopy, carrier dynamics | physics, physical chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00178 | Dr Sally Babidge, School of Social Science | Associate Professor Vibha Arora, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | RE, TS | Understanding human-water relationships for sustainable water futures | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | political ecology of water, development studies, environmental justice, intersectionality | social anthropology, sociology, geography, development studies, political science, social work, environmental studies | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00179 | Dr Sisira Edirippulige, Centre for Health Services Research | Assistant Professor Varun Ramamohan, Department of Mechanical Engineering | TT, TS | Development of a framework for establishing an effective telemedicine system in India | i | telemedicine, public health | industrial engineering, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00180 | Associate Professor Steven Kenway, Advanced Water Management Centre | Associate Professor C. T. Dhanya, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Energy efficient water security strategies | i/a | water, efficiency, energy, solutions | hydrology, engineering, energy, modelling, water security interests | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00181 | Dr Zyta Ziora, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor Kamal K Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | Development of Biobased Silver Nano-Particles for Application as Wastewater Disinfectant | i/a note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | silver, nanoparticles, antimicrobial, water disinfectant | inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, microbiology | Student Required |
