PhD Opportunities in Mechatronics in Australia

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) is offering a funded PhD opportunity through the Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Project in Digital Twins, artificial intelligence and future energy systems . The doctoral researcher will join the Artificial Intelligence Applications Laboratory and an international research and industry team spanning UniSQ, Queensland energy-sector partners, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Chemnitz University of Technology. The project will adap...

Monash University’s Faculty of Engineering is offering domestic graduate research opportunities at the Clayton campus across several engineering disciplines. The opening covers both the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and the Master of Engineering Science (Research), including the Industry Doctoral Program route. The faculty highlights its research environment as one where graduate researchers work on real-world challenges in partnership with industry and leading institutions. Students will be part o...

Monash University is offering a PhD opportunity through the Monash Energy Institute and its sponsoring faculties in Information Technology, Monash Business School, and Engineering. The project is based at the Caulfield or Clayton campuses and is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates whose research will advance First Nations peoples’ interests in the Australian energy transition. The advert invites proposals that engage with the energy transition in ways that are meanin...

This PhD project sits within the CSIRO Industry PhD scholarship program and is hosted at Monash University in collaboration with CSIRO and Maincode. The research focuses on self-evolving agentic AI : autonomous AI agents that can continue learning, reorganise how they collaborate, and improve as their environments, tasks, and information change over time. The project addresses a major limitation of many current agent frameworks: they are largely static, with predefined knowledge and coordination...

Monash University is offering a PhD project in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Clayton campus. The project focuses on physical metallurgy of hydrogen-based iron oxide reduction , with an application to low-carbon and green ironmaking. The successful candidate will investigate how iron oxides convert to metallic iron under hydrogen-based reduction conditions, with particular attention to the interplay between phase transformations , reducti...

This PhD project at Monash University focuses on developing machine learning methods for in situ materials characterisation . The student will work on modern experimental datasets that capture microstructure, crystallography, phase evolution, chemistry, and morphology, with the aim of learning physically meaningful representations that help explain how materials evolve during processing and phase transformation. The project is based in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within t...

Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship in the area of quantum computing, with the project based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne. The research sits within the Scalable Quantum Systems Lab and is directed by Professor Muhammad Usman . The project focuses on building efficient quantum compiler methods that bridge the gap between quantum algorithms and execution on quantum processors. The successful candidate will work on innovative quantum software components and reinforcement machine l...

PhD project in scalable AI for quantum error correction at Monash University This scholarship supports a PhD project focused on developing scalable artificial intelligence methods for quantum error correction. The research aims to build decoding approaches capable of handling error information from millions of qubits at microsecond time scales, using techniques such as deep neural networks and transformers. The project sits at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning, addressin...

Glenn and Ken Moss PhD Scholarships in Engineering Research at the University of Newcastle support doctoral research in Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics , with possible consideration for another engineering discipline if no suitable candidate is available in the primary areas. This is a donor-funded supplementation scholarship for current University of Newcastle PhD candidates. The post indicates that the scholarship is intended to help retain strong postgraduate engineering researchers a...