PhD Opportunities in Molecular Dynamics in Australia

Two PhD scholarships are available for a 2027 start at Deakin University (Institute for Frontier Materials, Burwood Campus / Melbourne ) in research on polymer electrolytes for sodium batteries . The projects are supported by an Australian Research Council-funded project and focus on automated molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to screen poly(ionic liquid)-based materials . The research aims to identify molecular design strategies for highly conductive electrolytes with favourable mechanical pr...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne Towards better treatments for childhood lung disease is a PhD project offered by the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, at the University of Melbourne. The work is based at the Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Australia. This project will investigate the immune and molecular mechanisms underlying childhood lung disease, including asthma and suppurative lung di...

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 ...

Monash University is advertising a double PhD degree opportunity with the University of Bayreuth for a project on accelerating organic semiconductor discovery with generative AI, molecular dynamics, and density functional theory (DFT) . The research sits at the intersection of materials science , computational chemistry , scientific machine learning , and physics , with a focus on designing next-generation organic semiconductor materials with tailored optoelectronic properties. The program is pa...

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...