PhD Opportunities in Petroleum Engineering 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 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...

Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Clayton campus. The project is centered on designing and developing safe and sustainable electrolyte materials for next-generation rechargeable metal batteries, with a strong emphasis on post-lithium energy storage. The successful candidate will work on electrolyte research in two main directions. One stream focuses on advanced electrolytes for rechargeable ...

PhD scholarship opportunity in Materials Science and Engineering: NOₓ production by plasma bubble reactor at Monash University is an industry-focused doctoral project delivered through CSIRO’s Industry PhD (iPhD) Program. The project brings together Monash University, CSIRO, and an industry partner to co-develop a four-year research program based at CSIRO Clayton in Victoria. The research explores a plasma bubble reactor that injects tiny plasma-filled bubbles into water to produce nitrogen oxid...

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...

This PhD project sits within the ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste (VAPUCW), an interdisciplinary and industry-connected research environment focused on turning underutilised carbon resources into valuable products and supporting the transition to a circular economy. The project examines the public policy and governance dimensions of Australia’s move toward circularity, with specific attention to carbon upcycling and emerging chemical recycling technologie...

Fully funded PhD scholarship at Western Sydney University , Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE), for a project on microbial diversity, exchange and ecological interactions between Australian native bees and their associated mites . The project investigates largely unknown relationships among bees, mites and microorganisms, including microbial diversity, potential transmission pathways and ecological significance. Methods include fieldwork , advanced microscopy and molecular techniques...

University of Southern Queensland (Australia) is offering an HDR/PhD scholarship in physics-informed and explainable AI for water security . The project focuses on uncertainty-aware modelling from multisource environmental observations, combining in-situ water-quality measurements, flow data, hyperspectral reflectance, and satellite imagery (including Sentinel and Landsat) accessed through CSIRO’s EASI environment. The research uses real-world CSIRO Aqua-Watch pilots and Hunter Water Corporation...