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Privacy, Data Protection and Competition Policy
Microeconomic analysis of incentives to provide data protection and privacy in the digital economy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Heiko Gerlach
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Economics
Production Performance of Narrow Row 2D Fruit Orchards
Investigate the impact of very narrow rows and 2D training systems on orchard production.
- Supervisor
- Dr Dr Liqi Han
- Location
- Tatura Smart Farm, Victoria
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Promoting LGBTQIA+ inclusion in primary care
Develop and evaluate components of an implementation toolkit to improve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other related experiences (LGBTQIA+) experiences of primary care.
- Supervisor
- Dr Megan Ross
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Psychosocial risk factors maintaining domestic and family violence
Explore psychosocial risk factors that work to maintain cycles of domestic and family violence in Australia at individual, social, and structural levels.
- Supervisor
- Dr Leah Sharman
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Reaching new frontiers of quantum fields and gravity through deformations
Tackle longstanding open questions in quantum field and gravity theories by using new deformations, symmetries and dualities that have attracted widespread attention.
- Supervisor
- Dr Gabriele Tartaglino Mazzucchelli
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Mathematical sciences
Responsible data modelling respecting privacy, data quality, and green computing
Investigate responsible data management in the big data era, including privacy preservation, resilient data modelling, and efficient model architectures.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Responsive Metal-organic Framework Glass Membranes for Molecular Sieving
Understand the melting and modification mechanism, and to incorporate responsive moieties to the glass. It further aims to realise switchable membrane separation for gas mixtures.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jingwei Hou
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Role of nitrogen-rich compounds for increasing carbon sequestration in soil
Unravel how increasing concentrations of nitrogen-rich compounds in soils can potentially increase our ability to sequester soil organic carbon.
- Supervisor
- Professor Peter Kopittke
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Environmental sciences
Scanning Probe Microscopy for Atomic-Scale Engineering to study molecules on surfaces
Scanning probe microscopy will be used to study molecules on surfaces, with a view towards applications.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peter Jacobson
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences
Seeing the Unseen: Imaging Bacterial Infections
Develop radiolabeled imaging agents to detect and monitor bacterial infections using positron emission tomography (PET), assessing their effectiveness in mouse models of infection.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rhia Stone
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences