PhD Scholarship

School of Chemical Engineering

Engineering is an international leader in the chemical engineering field and has an excellent international reputation which has been built over four decades at the University. With 35 academic staff, including 17 professors, the School provides quality programs and leadership in chemical engineering education, research and development, and expert consulting to support the process industries. The School conducts undergraduate teaching in the disciplines of chemical, biological, environmental and metallurgical engineering and teaches into postgraduate programs in growing fields including integrated water management and energy studies. The School's project centered curriculum was recently chosen in a RAE & MIT study as one of six global exemplars in leading engineering education. UQ Chemical Engineering was ranked in the top 16 worldwide in the 2012 QS subject rankings for chemical engineering and was the top ranking school in Australia. It was also given the highest score awarded for chemical engineering in Australia in the recent ERA study.

The role

The successful appointee will develop relevant experimental and modelling approaches to study structure and properties of air-solution and solution-solid interfaces. It may include measurements using high-speed videomicroscopy, SFG, AFM, zeta meters, tensiometers, bubble columns, flotation cells, and model development involving hydrodynamics and colloidal force theory. The appointee will assist in designing and interpreting experimental and modelling approaches that validate the theories on adsorption, water structure, bubble coalescence, bubble-particle interactions and flotation, and publish high-impact papers in top journals and conference proceedings. There are opportunities to collaborate with research teams and to supervise honours students.

The person

Applicants should possess a Master degree and/or Bachelor degree (with Honours or equivalent) in science or engineering, with a focus on flotation and/or hydrodynamics and/or colloid and surface chemistry,  and demonstrated skills in using instruments of the areas. They should have high level communication skills, ability to work collaboratively with students and colleagues, experience in writing reports and papers. The successful applicant will be expected to enrol for a full-time PhD student at the School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland.

Remuneration

The Scholarship of the APA rate ($26,288, indexed annually) will be tenable for a maximum of three and a half years, to start as early as possible but no later than July, 2016.

Position Description

 499003_3018201_PhD Scholarship.pdf

Enquiries

To discuss this role please contact Professor Anh Nguyen on +61 7 3365 3665 or anh.nguyen@eng.uq.edu.au.

To submit an application for this role, use the Apply button below. All applicants must supply the following documents: Cover letter, Resume and Selection Criteria responses.

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Reference: 499003