Apply your advanced engineering skills to industry-focused research projects and identify real-world solutions to existing and emerging chemical engineering problems.

You can select from existing applied research projects that are well supported by industry. These projects will deliver fundamental research leading to innovative new products, processes and knowledge.

Research opportunities are in the fields of rheology, advanced and functional materials, water and wastewater, energy, complex liquid flow, microfluidics, and surface science.

You will be expertly supervised while you work on a project in one of the following areas:

• anaerobic digester hydrodynamics
• biochemical engineering
• biodegradable polymer nanocomposites
• biomass utilisation and conversion
• chaos and mixing
• colloids science
• corrosion and materials degradation
• drinking water treatment
• flow process and mixer analysis of complex fluids and multiphase mixtures
• life cycle analysis of processes
• microfluidics
• nanodroplets, nanobubbles and nanocatalysts
• polymer processing
• rheology of polymers and sludge
• surface science
• water quality and wastewater treatment

This PhD may be undertaken in a project, thesis with publication or thesis mode. Prospective candidates should discuss these modes of submission with their potential supervisor.

You will be able to pursue an academic career in a university or be employed in senior leadership and management positions in government, scientific and industrial research laboratories.