University of Melbourne, Australia invites online application for multiple fully funded PhD Programs in various research areas. Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. PhD Programs in hydrogen-induced deformation
Summary of PhD Positions:
At the University of Melbourne, one PhD project will combine modelling expertise and modern data science to tackle the effect of hydrogen on materials failure. At the Forschungszentrum Jülich, another PhD project will develop and apply new micromechanical testing methods to quantify the effect of hydrogen on the properties of materials and failure and observe the changes in a material. These projects will have an experimental and simulation counterpart, working on the same material and at the same length scale, and they will collaborate to combine the insights gained from the simulations with the experimental findings, to accelerate understanding in this area.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
2. PhD Programs in Local Energy Communities and Multi-Energy Microgrids
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Forschungszentrum Jülich-based project aims to develop new methods and tools for the design and operation of LEC and multi-energy microgrids. The University of Melbourne based-project aims to develop a comprehensive techno-economic modelling and assessment framework to assess the value of different technical solutions and business models for development of LEC and multi-energy microgrids.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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3. PhD Programs in Managing grape and wine quality
Summary of PhD Positions:
This project aims to benefit viticulture by delivering a new class of plant growth-promoting microbes (PGPM) as biofertilizers designed to address the challenges of climate change while maintaining grape quality. It is intended to generate new knowledge and valuable intellectual property using PGPM to alter vineyard soil microbial community to manage abiotic and biotic stresses and to enhance the quality of important metabolites in grapes.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
4. PhD Programs in atomistic study of solute atom segregation
Summary of PhD Positions:
This is one of two projects researching magnesium alloys. The University of Melbourne is the home institution for this project. To view the SJTU-based partner project, click here. Magnesium (Mg) alloys represent one of the most promising material systems for weight-saving structural applications where their low density is critical to save energy and protect the environment by reducing CO2 emissions. The formability, yield strength and tension compression yield strength asymmetry of wrought hexagonal metallic products, such as Mg, are all related to deformation twinning. Twinning is a form of symmetrical intergrowth between two or more adjacent crystals.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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5. PhD Programs in Efficient Data-Driven Optimization in Cooperative Control Systems with Constraints
Summary of PhD Positions:
This is one of two research projects studying unmanned aerial and surface vehicles (UAVs and USVs). The University of Melbourne is the home institution for this project. To view the SJTU-based partner project, click here. This project will fully exploit available sensor data to develop novel data-driven optimization-based techniques to achieve control and management goals optimally with the ability to handle constraints and uncertainties. With the consideration of practical implementation issues such as the computational cost, physical constraints from sensors and actuators, and limitation of communication ability, efficient online data-driven optimal collaborative control algorithms in the presence of constraints will be explored.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
6. PhD Programs in Development of auxetic structures for optimal orthopaedic implant / bone integration
Summary of PhD Positions:
This PhD project will be based at the University of Melbourne with a 12-month stay at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. For the SJTU-based project, click here. Stress shielding is the main biomechanical factor leading to aseptic loosening of the femoral stem following total hip arthroplasty (THA). This project aims to design a femoral stem incorporating novel auxetic structures to expand the femoral stem while in tensile loading, thus to increase the load transferred to the femur and avoid stress shielding induced bone resorption and aseptic loosening of the implant.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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7. PhD Programs in Reducing aerodynamic noise of advanced air mobility by prediction based on machine learning
Summary of PhD Positions:
This PhD project will be based at the University of Melbourne with a 12 month stay at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. High-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows and their application to aerospace systems are integral to gain a physical understanding of flow and noise. Computationally efficient noise predictions require two key elements: an affordable way to produce accurate mean flow information, and a reliable method to predict the corresponding frequency spectrum.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
8. PhD Programs in Visualising the dynamics of horizontal gene transfer during bacterial conjugation
Summary of PhD Positions:
The University of Melbourne (UoM) project will investigate molecular mechanisms of the bacterial conjugation process using cryoEM approaches, while the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) project will employ (superresolution and time-lapse) fluorescence microscopy approaches. The two projects will investigate the conjugation process in the clinically relevant Gram-negative pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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9. PhD Programs in Targeting calcitonin receptor to treat glioblastoma with glycan-based site-specific coupling of toxins to nanobodies
Summary of PhD Positions:
Finding a treatment for the brain tumor glioblastoma (GBM) is an unmet need in medicine and a global challenge. The Berlin Universities Alliance (BUA) in collaboration with the University of Melbourne (UoM) is offering unique and exciting opportunities for two potential PhD candidates, one with their home at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (BUA) and the other at UoM. The overall research program investigates the site-specific coupling via glycans in Berlin and demonstration of efficacy in animal models in Melbourne, using the complementary expertise of the research groups.
To these ends, the UoM home-based study will focus on cell biology, cell-based assays and orthotopic, intracranial animal models to define the potential of refined targeted toxins synthesized in Berlin by the partner PhD candidate. The Charité based PhD study will focus on glycosylation of proteins in vitro, toxin expression in bacteria and coupling of the toxin to glycosylated nanobodies.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
10. PhD Programs in Cultural Studies Program
Summary of PhD Positions:
We are currently recruiting joint PhD candidates to join the Melbourne-Potsdam Minor Cosmopolitanisms International Research Training Group (IRTG). Two fully funded PhD projects are now available. The successful applicants will commence research at the University of Melbourne and will spend at least twelve months of candidature based at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Joint PhD candidates will benefit from the collective resources, networks and expertise of co-supervisors at the University of Melbourne’s School of Culture and Communications and the University of Potsdam’s Minor Cosmopolitanisms Research Training Group. Funding for joint PhD candidates includes tuition fees, a full living allowance (stipend), health insurance and travel allowance. At the successful completion of the program, each candidate will be eligible to receive a PhD, recognised by testamurs from each of the two universities.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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11. PhD Programs in STAT3 signaling
Summary of PhD Positions:
Cortical bone (bone’s outer shell) forms through a process of consolidation, including the closure of blood vessel-impregnated pores. However, it is essential that some vascularised pores remain, to enable egress of bone marrow cells, such as neutrophils, to the circulation. During ageing, these pores within the cortex expand. Although this process is not understood, it is likely to involve communication between stromal cells, which differentiate into bone-forming osteoblasts, and the vasculature. This project seeks to identify how the vasculature and osteoblasts communicate to facilitate the development and degradation of cortical bone, the toughened outer shell of all skeletal elements.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
12. PhD Programs in Glial-immune interactions protecting against formation of glioma
Summary of PhD Positions:
Brain cancer has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers worldwide, with only 1 in 5 diagnosed patients surviving beyond 5 years. Gliomas are the most severe and aggressive forms of brain cancer. Gliomas arise when mutations affect glial cells and neural stem cells in the brain, triggering them to over-proliferate and form tumours. Glial cells are a special type of cell found in the nervous system that support the nerve cells. Glial cells are found throughout the nervous system, and form an important part of the enteric nervous system, which is located within the gut. Remarkably, gliomas in the gut are very rare, and >95% of glial tumours in the bowel are benign. The question arises: why are enteric glial cells protected from developing aggressive cancers?
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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13. PhD Programs in Density Functional Theory (DFT) for unusual electronic structures
Summary of PhD Positions:
Noncovalent interactions between molecules or different parts of the same molecule control molecular and biomolecular structures, their stability and chemical reactivity. Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry has made significant advances over the last 15 years in the field of noncovalent interactions for electronic ground states and has improved its applicability and reliability for joint computational-experimental studies. However, no such progress has been made in the field of electronic excited states. The latter arise from the interaction of electrons with light and are important in applications related to, for instance, energy harvesting, storage, or photochemical reactions.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
14. PhD Programs in Reliability-based life cycle offshore concrete structures protection and management strategies
Summary of PhD Positions:
In collaboration with the supervisors at KU Leuven, who are experts in ultrasound structural health monitoring and machine learning diagnostics and prognostics respectively, this PhD project will focus on predicting the residual service life of the critical offshore structures through theoretical modelling in conjunction with experiments involving unmanned vehicles (for example, drone and unmanned boat) and advanced non-destructive techniques (for example ultrasound, infrared thermography and IBIS-S radar).
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
15. PhD Programs in A functional artificial cell stabilized by a biomimetic cytoskeletons
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this project, we will adapt droplet-based microfluidic strategies for the formation of GUVs to integrate them with a “3D nano-printed” biomimetic cortex. Such structures will be obtained via 2-photon nano-lithographic techniques that have been demonstrated to offer the capacity to pattern nanometric scaffolds with dimensions similar to those of native cellular cortices. We will further characterize the physicochemical and functional properties of these cortex-stabilized GUVs in order to artificially recover specific properties (such as shape, deformability and gas exchange capacity) of native Erythrocytes.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
16. PhD Programs in Safety learning, avoidance behaviour, and ventromedial prefrontal circuits
Summary of PhD Positions:
The goal of this project will be to develop novel experimental models of conditioned inhibition, with direct translatability to brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In the project’s first phase (KUL), a novel experimental paradigm will be validated in order to formally examine the fear inhibitory properties of learned safety signals across autonomic, behavioural and subjective domains.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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17. PhD Programs in Multiscale experimentation and simulation of wildfire spotting
Summary of PhD Positions:
The overall goal of the proposed research is to better understand the phenomenon of short- and long-range spotting during wildland and prescribed fires and develop mathematical models for their simulation. The work is divided by scale: the University of Melbourne (UoM) PhD candidate will focus on small-scale effects but will develop experiments and models to upscale combustion processes to atmospheric scale, while the CNRS (the University of Corsica) PhD candidate will focus on numerical development on coupled fire-atmosphere models.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
18. PhD Programs in Solving the puzzle of the human pelvic plexus: a developmental and multiscale imaging approach
Summary of PhD Positions:
These projects will use large-volume tissue clearing and state-of-the-art three-dimensional (3D) light-sheet imaging of human embryo specimens to describe the ontogeny and organisation of the sexually dimorphic human pelvic plexus (also known as the pelvic ganglia or inferior hypogastric plexus) and its connections with the spinal cord. The project design incorporates specific parallel studies in mice, to maximise the translatability of new knowledge.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
19. PhD Programs in Luminous Dark Matter searches with XENONnT and DARWIN experiments
Summary of PhD Positions:
The Xenon Group of the SUBATECH laboratory in France and the School of Physics of the University of Melbourne in Australia are seeking two highly motivated students with a Masters degree in physics and a solid background in particle and/or astroparticle physics to work on a joint project to probe luminous dark matter with liquid xenon time projection chambers. The existence of Dark Matter is known from gravitational effects, but its nature is still totally unknown, and its characterization is one of the major theoretical and experimental challenges of modern particle and astroparticle physics.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
20. PhD Programs in Joint Assimilation of satellite CO2 and vegetation Fluorescence
Summary of PhD Positions:
This project will apply machine learning and two state-of-the-art streams of new satellite data to map recent patterns of CO2 uptake by the land and project this improved knowledge into prediction. The project will be carried out in parallel between the Laboratory for the Science of Climate and Environment (LSCE) near Paris and the University of Melbourne (UoM) using two world-leading models and contributing to an open-source data analysis system to which others will be invited to contribute.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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21. PhD Programs in Metal-based DNA Hybrid Nanomaterials
Summary of PhD Positions:
The project will build on the fields of covalent polymers, DNA origami and supramolecular polymers to generate DNA-hybrid materials that are functional, scalable, programmable, and possess intrinsic dynamic properties that cannot be obtained by any of these materials individually. In this way the new materials envisaged can move the field closer towards applications in a range of biomedical and biotechnological areas such as in-vivo sensing, drug delivery and gene editing.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
22. PhD Programs in Dislocation-twin boundary interaction in magnesium alloys
Summary of PhD Positions:
To understand the detailed deformation mechanisms, atomistic modelling will be performed in Dr Christian Brandl’s group at the University of Melbourne. The focus will be on the discovery of the detailed interaction at the nanometre scale between dislocations and twin grain boundaries using High-Performance Computing. This in-silico observations will guide the experiments and predict emerging measurable phenomena. At the University of Birmingham in Dr Yu-Lung Chiu’s group the student will have access to state-of-the-art in-situ electron microscopy combined with nano and micromechanical testing.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
23. 08 PhD Programs in various research area
Summary of PhD Positions:
The University of Bayreuth and University of Melbourne are currently offering places for high-achieving candidates to complete their PhD studies under joint supervision from both Universities. Candidates will spend at least 12 months in each country and benefit from the research expertise of researchers in both countries. Scholarships will also include travel support.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
24. PhD Programs in Calcium signalling and regulation of heart cell function and growth
Summary of PhD Positions:
The aim of this project is to identify mechanisms that enable Ca2+ to act with specificity to simultaneously regulate discrete functions such as growth, differentiation and contraction in cardiac myocytes. We are taking a multidisciplinary approach to address this aim, involving cell biology, biochemistry, and super-resolution imaging combined with advanced multi-scale computational modelling and AI. We will investigate how Ca2+ signals in different cellular sub-compartments are regulated and decoded to elicit effects on discrete cardiomyocyte functions. The analysis will be carried out in primary cardiomyocytes, iPS cell-derived cardiomyocytes and animal models.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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25. PhD Programs in Information-theoretic and machine learning methods for low-power communication systems
Summary of PhD Positions:
The unprecedented expansion of wireline and wireless networks has resulted in a tremendous increase in energy consumption and left a significant environmental footprint. The use of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has gained significant research interest because it addresses practical problems and scalability issues in 5G core technologies (including massive MIMO, mmWave communication, Internet-of-Things) such as massive data processing, high power consumption, and cost. This PhD project forms part of a cluster collaboration between the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne titled Communication and Computation: Two sides of one tapestry.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
26. PhD Programs in Coded distributed computation and applications on distributed optimization
Summary of PhD Positions:
Coded computation is an emerging technique that uses error correction codes to improve the reliability of distributed computation systems. Broadly speaking, the technique involves taking a big computational task and dividing it into smaller subtasks along with additional redundancy. Coded computation schemes guarantee that the overall computational tasks can be accomplished even if some of the smaller subtasks are not completed. This PhD project forms part of a cluster collaboration between the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne titled Communication and Computation: Two sides of one tapestry.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
27. PhD Programs in Unravelling the photophysics of quantum dot/ molecule hybrids
Summary of PhD Positions:
In partnership with subject experts working within the Collaboration Centre for Green Energy Materials (CC-GEM) between U of T and the National Research Council of Canada, this will lead to the development of fundamental knowledge to advance the target applications, particularly developing upconverting photo-initiators for volumetric 3D printing.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
28. PhD Programs in cooling footprint of green infrastructure and influence on urban invertebrate communities
Summary of PhD Positions:
In this project, we will evaluate the contribution of different Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) to human thermal comfort, fine-scale microclimates and the diversity and adaptive response of invertebrates. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how different biotic and abiotic drivers filter urban invertebrate communities, and the relative importance of each to both flower visitors and the reproductive success of two taxa: solitary bees and wasps. We will investigate these relationships in Toronto and Melbourne, two large and growing cities with different climatological conditions.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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29. PhD Programs in modelling turbulent premixed combustion
Summary of PhD Positions:
To achieve cleaner combustion, more accurate models are required to simulate energy technologies and therefore inform the designers. However, premixed combustion presents many challenges for modelling, particularly when alternative fuels such as hydrogen is used. Depending on the operating condition of a certain device, different regimes of flame/turbulence interaction are present, requiring different sets of modelling assumptions that are not rigorous in some parts. This work will develop more accurate models that can be used to design cleaner and more efficient combustion systems.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
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30. PhD Programs in microRNAs in the development of chemoresistant acute myeloid leukemia
Summary of PhD Positions:
Drug resistance in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a major hurdle for successful therapy. MicroRNA (miRNA) are small RNA with critical roles in most cellular processes that can promote diverse diseases when disrupted. Aberrant miRNA expression has been implicated in the development and maintenance of AML, however little is known about the specific role and clinical utility for miRNA in AML chemoresistance.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
31. PhD Programs in digital technology
Summary of PhD Positions:
In Australia, most children with congenital hearing loss receive a cochlear implant between 6 and 12 months of age. The implant operation is a critical event for parents and the early postoperative period is challenging and stressful, with a high need for support from cochlear implant clinicians (usually audiologists or speech pathologists). Parents must also learn strategies for supporting the development of hearing, speech, and language. With individual progress being highly variable, it is difficult for parents to know what to expect and when.
Application Deadlines: Open until filled
