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The open PhD positions in bioengineering in Australia listed here are at University of Melbourne.
University of Melbourne
Top university
Australia
4 weeks ago
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Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne for a PhD project titled Co-culture of motor neurons and bioengineered skeletal muscle to generate a neuromuscular junction model . This project sits in the Department of Paediatrics , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and focuses on building an in vitro neuromuscular junction model using motor neurons and skeletal muscle derived from pluripotent stem cells . The work combines microfluidics , bioengineering , directed d...
4 weeks ago
University of Melbourne
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Australia
4 weeks ago
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PhD Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne This project is titled Developing a dynamic culture platform for bioengineered skeletal muscle and is offered through the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. The work is based at the Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia. The project focuses on bioengineered skeletal muscle , stem cell culture , directed differentiation , and bioengineering . The aim i...
4 weeks ago
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University of New South Wales
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Australia
1 month ago
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PhD opportunity at University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) in the Polymer Research in Therapeutics (PRinT) group led by A/Prof. Damia Mawad . This opening is for a domestic PhD candidate only, meaning applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents . The project sits at the intersection of polymer science , biomaterials , bioelectronics , tissue engineering , and drug delivery , with a focus on conducting polymers and conjugated polymers in a multidisciplinary research environm...
1 month ago
Queensland University of Technology
Australia
1 month ago
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is offering a PhD scholarship on the system-level impact of healthcare AI in Brisbane, Australia. The project focuses on how health AI tools, including AI scribes and other clinical decision support technologies, affect the full care process rather than only isolated tasks. Using human factors and systems approaches , the research will examine workflow, information flow, downstream effects on clinicians and patients, safety, and sustainable integration o...
1 month ago
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Australia
1 month ago
PhD Scholarship in Rural Healthcare and Intellectual Disability at The University of Notre Dame Australia (School of Medicine, Sydney campus). This is a full-time PhD scholarship supporting a mixed-methods research project on the healthcare needs of rural and regional people with intellectual disability as they age. The project sits within an established research group and is embedded in a co-designed, participatory approach involving disability researchers, other PhD candidates, disability supp...
1 month ago
Estimated costs in Australia.
MonthlyYearly | |
|---|---|
![]() University Tuition Average PhD tuition per year | A$34.1k $22,000/yr |
![]() Clothing Basic clothing and seasonal needs per year | A$1.9k $1,200/yr |
![]() Books & Academic Supplies Textbooks, stationery, and academic materials per year | A$1.1k $700/yr |
![]() Groceries Basic food shopping for one student per year | A$4.5k $2,880/yr |
Estimates based on university averages and Numbeo
University of Pannonia
Hungary
Agricultural Engineering
Biochemical Engineering
Water Resource Management
Adsorption Science
Membrane Separation
Associate Professor
University of Alberta
Canada
Systems Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Neurochemistry
Clinical Neurophysiology
Neuromodulation
Dean/Member of the Board of Directors
Health Campus Göttingen (UMG, HAWK)
Germany
Medical Imaging
Cardiology
Cardiac Imaging
Micro-computed Tomography
Tissue Imaging
Has grant
Associate Professor
University of Sydney
Australia
Tissue Engineering
Biochemical Engineering
Nano Biomaterial Synthesis And Characterization
Bioprinting
Bioengineering
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 1
Australia
Tissue Engineering
Cell Biology
Cartilage Biology
Biofabrication
Biomaterial
School of Medicine Faculty of Health Deakin University Waurn Ponds VIC 3216 Australia
Australia
Tissue Engineering
Cell Biology
Nanoelectronic
Nanoscience
Nanomaterials In Biomedical Engineering

Monash Graduate Scholarship supports domestic and international students undertaking research master's or PhD study at Monash University in Australia, typically with a living-cost stipend and, in some cases, additional scholarship support.

The Research Training Program (RTP) supports higher degree by research students at Australian universities, typically for Master's by Research and PhD study. Funding and eligibility are administered by each participating university.

The CSIRO Industry PhD Program is a four-year Australian PhD training scheme linking universities, CSIRO and industry partners through applied research projects with scholarship support and industry engagement.
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