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Mechanisms and functions of reasoning about possibilities
Establish how people imagine and reason about alternative possibilities, and examine how this process aids decision-making.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jonathan Redshaw
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
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
Microbial Ecology of Extreme Tailings Environment
Discover extremophiles sourced from tailings and study their genetic makeup and metabolic pathways to unlock their potential for environmental bioremediation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jing Zhao
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
Multimodal Representation Learning for Responsive Video-sharing Services
Design novel algorithms to effectively predict and leverage changes, optimise the value of changes, and extract insights from changes for downstream applications of video-sharing platforms.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Nanodiagnostics for early detection and monitoring of ovarian cancer
Advance early ovarian cancer (OC) diagnosis by developing nanotechnology-integrated strategies, with a specific focus on analyzing exosomes and exosomal biomarkers.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mostafa Kamal Masud
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
New electricity market mechanism for electric vehicles to address the duck curve problem
Design novel electricity trading mechanisms to facilitate absorption of surplus rooftop generation by electric vehicles thereby address the duck curve problem in power distribution networks.
- Supervisor
- Dr Wayes Tushar and Associate Professor Rahul Sharma
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Novel copper catalysts of carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
Develop an unprecedented family of copper catalysts and deliver an innovative and versatile chemical reactivity platform.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Bernhardt and Professor Craig Williams
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Paris-compliance: assessing companies and portfolios using data science
Turn the tide on misleading corporate climate pledges and systematise the assessment of companies' climate performance using a science-based approach.
- Supervisor
- Dr Saphira Rekker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences
Paving the way for a Clinical Vaccine Candidate against Hookworm Infection
Produce vaccine candidates against hookworms that will be able to induce robust immune responses against all strains without triggering adverse effects.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ahmed Shalash
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences
Physiological traits to improve wheat yield in changing environments
Investigate genetic variation of key adaptative traits underlying heat and drought tolerance in wheat with opportunities in crop modelling and genomic prediction to capture genotype x environment interactions.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Karine Chenu
- Location
- UQ Gatton campus
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences