Industry PhD Scholarship

PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland in the School of Chemical Engineering, focused on engineering next-generation nanocatalysts for solar-driven production of methanol . The project targets the conversion of CO2 and CO from industrial emissions and by-products into methanol and related fuels via a photothermal pathway . Research will involve nanomaterials synthesis , catalyst design, and advanced characterisation to build robust structure–activity relationships. Students will gain ha...

CSIRO Industry PhD opportunity in Thermochemical Activation of Mining and Organic Waste for Low-Carbon Cementitious Materials . This project focuses on civil engineering , materials science , chemical engineering , and environmental science , with an emphasis on low-carbon concrete , circular economy , waste valorisation , and construction materials . The research aims to convert mining residues and organic waste streams into high-performance supplementary cementitious materials and concrete add...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland in PFAS remediation , water treatment , polymer chemistry , and materials science . The project is led by Associate Professor Cheng Zhang (Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ) and is supported through an ARC Industry Mid-Career Fellowship in collaboration with The Chemours Company and Queensland Water Directorate (qldwater) . The research focuses on developing next-generation sorbents and magnetic ion-exchang...

PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland in the School of Chemical Engineering for a project on coupling green hydrogen production with biomass waste valorisation . The research sits at the intersection of chemistry , chemical engineering , materials science , electrocatalysis , and energy conversion . The project aims to design and develop nanostructured catalysts for paired electrolysis, replacing the oxygen evolution reaction with the oxidation of biomass-derived feedstocks such as gly...

PhD opportunity at The University of Queensland (St Lucia, Australia) in photothermal catalysis and solar methanol synthesis . The project, titled “Unravelling the photothermal effect in solar methanol synthesis” , explores how light-driven and heat-driven effects work together to improve catalyst performance for converting small molecules such as CO2 or CO into fuels like methanol under mild, energy-efficient conditions. You will work across chemical engineering , chemistry , materials science ...