The Academy joint PhD research projects are well defined and developed by a collaborative team of researchers at UQ and IITD. Selected PhD students working on a project will be supervised by a joint supervision team of UQ and IITD academics.
To apply, select a ’Position Open’ project. You can nominate up to two projects in your EOI form.
The project aims are to examine how cross-boundary collaboration can impact conservation, especially of large wildlife in agricultural and natural areas, and can help mitigate human-wildlife conflict. The project will study large threatened native mammals in the Indian sub-continent, which cross bor...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common & aggressive brain tumor having dismal prognosis. Patients diagnosed with the disease have a median survival of about 15 months only. Current mode of therapy is limited to surgical removal of the tumor and routine chemo/radiotherapy. However, emergence of chemo/...
Renewable energy sources are intermittent sources of power and are highly dependent on weather and climatic conditions. Variations in power generation poses multiple operating constraints like requiring primary and spinning reserves, complicated power production planning, and balancing power etc. It...
Air pollution is a major medical hazard, and among the world’s most populous countries, the largest increase in the number of pollution-related deaths was seen in India. Capturing of ultra-fine particles is the most challenging. High efficiency particulate air and ultra-low penetration air filters...
This work proposes the design of an optimal sliding mode control (SMC) for a nonlinear & coupled dynamics of spacecraft based on the Legendre pseudospectral method (PSM). In recent times, PSM, a numerical optimal control method, has become popular owing to its fast convergence and ease in handling o...
Modified polymer surfaces are gaining huge significance in various fields with wide applications in the biomedical industry. The surface modification on polymers can be achieved by various methods like exuberant physical method, self-organization and self-assembly and chemical functionalization of t...
Preserved Ejection Fraction (pEF) is a condition in which the heart’s ability to pump blood throughout the body is reduced. It is characterised by a stiffening of the myocardium (cardiac tissue), leading to the heart not relaxing to its full size before contracting for the next heartbeat. This res...
Stress and sex-specificity in emotion disorder remains poorly understood. This PhD project plans to examine psychophysiological effects of stress (hormone and ERP response) cognitive [Iowa gambling task] and affect response in anxiety-depression.
Living around natural environments may have beneficial health effects. However, lack of evidence is a barrier to developing 'green' cities. Policy-makers in India and Australia want to reconcile the different dimensions of how changing the greenspace affects health and provides climate benefits.
This project focuses on the development of start-to-finish pipelines for biotherapeutics derived from functional genomics patient data.