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We offer a diverse range of postgraduate research projects that come with living stipend scholarships.
Scholarship-funded research projects
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Detecting key concepts from low-quality data for better decision
Develop data analytics techniques – covering data understanding and enhancement, model development and fitting, and novelty detection – to aid decision-making in high-stake scenarios when data are less trustworthy.
- Supervisor
- Dr Miao Xu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Effect of physiological status on goat methane emissions
Investigate the relationship between a goats physiological status and its methane emissions to better understand their contribution to Australia's Carbon footprint.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sarah Meale
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
Exoplanet direct imaging with the James Webb Space Telescope
Work on James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet imaging, and the related kernel phase and coronagraphy modes of JWST by applying automatic differentiation and machine learning to enhance images.
- Supervisor
- Dr Benjamin Pope
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences
How bacteria form antibiotic resistant biofilms
Dissect the structure, function and regulation of biofilms produced by antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Schembri
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Metal-organic framework glass thin film membranes for gas separation
Help develop practical high-performance supported metal-organic framework (MOF) glass thin film membranes for gas separation by researching how to eliminate interfacial defects and grain boundaries.
- Supervisor
- Dr Rijia Lin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
New approaches to measuring single-molecule protein dynamics
Develop methods to incorporate novel-solvatochromic fluorophores into proteins and study the interaction of GPCR or G-protein conjugates using single-molecule dynamics and other techniques.
- Supervisor
- Dr Sebastian Furness
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences
Preventing diabetes through taking small steps for big changes
Help to reduce diabetes through understanding the effectiveness, uptake, and implementation of a diabetes prevention program in community-based settings.
- Supervisor
- Professor Genevieve Healy
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Health sciences
Tapping into non-English-language science in tackling global environmental challenges
Conduct multilingual synthesis of evidence on global environmental challenges, test the importance of non-English-language science, and explore methods of multilingual evidence synthesis.
- Supervisor
- Dr Tatsuya Amano
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences, Language, communication and culture
Understanding how predictions modulate visual perception
This project will use cognitive neuroscience methods to explore how predictions impact how the brain processing incoming perceptual information.
- Supervisor
- Dr Margaret Moore
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Subcortical control of human reaching
Use muscle and brain recordings and non-invasive brain stimulation to test a radical new hypothesis about how the human brain generates visually guided behaviour.
- Supervisor
- Professor Timothy Carroll and Associate Professor Guy Wallis
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Health sciences, Psychology