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Evolution of vertebrate pregnancy

Our lab, within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, focuses on understanding the evolution of viviparity, placentae, and reproductive complexity, using a variety of model more...

Supervisor(s): Whittington, Camilla (Dr), Thompson, Michael B. (Emeritus Professor)

Development of a soil contamination spatial inference system

The successful scholarship candidate will work on a project to design a spatial inference system for optimized detection and delineation of soil contaminants. more...

Supervisor(s): Malone, Brendan (Dr)

Development of a CFD based numerical approach in predicting wind loads on structures

The purpose of this research is to identify alternative approaches to traditional wind tunnel based design procedure and improve the current design standards. more...

Supervisor(s): Mohotti, Damith (Dr)

Blast and impact loadings on structures

The purpose of this research is to identify improve the current design approaches and develop innovative structural systems to mitigate damage caused by extreme loadings such as bla more...

Supervisor(s): Mohotti, Damith (Dr)

Development of smart materials impedance graded composite materials in blast and impact mitigation

The purpose of this research is to develop novel composite materials and structural systems which have wide range of applications. more...

Supervisor(s): Mohotti, Damith (Dr)

Using a patient’s respiratory and cardiac signal to adjust image acquisition.

Imaging a lung tumour is difficult because the tumour and organs are blurred as we breathe and our heart beats. The aim of this project is to eliminate blurring caused by respirato more...

Supervisor(s): O'Brien, Ricky (Associate Professor)

Imaging a patient while they move

Diagnosing knee, shoulder and back complaints can be difficult because we currently cannot image a patient as they walk or pick up an object. The aim of this project is to develop more...

Supervisor(s): O'Brien, Ricky (Associate Professor)

Self-Healing Clay-Polymer Mixtures: Towards a New Material

The project will develop new clay-polymer mixtures that enhance the ability of clay to self-heal developing fractures, hence helping the emergence of autonomously-repairing geotechn more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Cohesive Crack Model in Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Theory of Partially Saturated Soils

The fissuring and healing of clay is modeled using a novel approach, within a finite-element framework, that will allow the design of new materials and new geotechnical structures w more...

Supervisor(s): El-Zein, Abbas (Professor)

Phase Contrast Imaging of the Breast

A novel method for imaging breast cancer more...

Supervisor(s): Brennan, Patrick (Professor)