Past Chancellor’s Research Fellows
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellows 2022
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Treena Clark Faculty of Design, Building and Architecture Project: Ad (dressing) Indigeneity: cultural identity, healing, and social change through clothing, fashion, and style Supervisor: Professor Peter McNeil |
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Paul Gray Project: Reimagining child protection systems and practice for First Nations children and families Supervisor: Professor Larissa Behrendt |
2022 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows
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Yougwoo Choo Faculty of Engineering and IT Project: Next-generation membrane: Highly selective rare-earth element recovery from mining wastewater Supervisor: Dr Gayathri Naidu |
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Mariana de Souza e Sousa Faculty of Health Project: Building multidisciplinary capacity to deliver quality cancer cachexia care Supervisor: Professor David Currow |
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Yuhan Huang Faculty of Engineering and IT Project: Improving urban air quality by reducing street canyon effect on pollution dispersion Supervisor: Professor John Zhou |
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Michael Kendig Faculty of Science Project: Characterising the effects of unhealthy diets on the brain, behaviour, and gut microbiota Supervisor: Dr Laura Bradfield |
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Mehran Kianinia Faculty of Science Project: Quantum memory with two dimensional materials Supervisor: Professor Igor Aharonovich |
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Yan Liao Project: Divide and conquer: deciphering cell division in ancestral organisms and its implications in biology Supervisor: A/Professor Iain Duggin |
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Laurence Don Wai Luu Project: Elucidating chlamydia host-pathogen interactions through systems biology and a new organoid model Supervisor: A/Professor Willa Huston |
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Asif Mahmood Project: Develop high-energy sodium-metal batteries for renewable energy storage Supervisor: Professor Guoxiu Wang |
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Jennifer Matthews Project: Good Fats of the Reef: Unlocking the Role of Lipids in Coral Resilience Supervisor: Professor David Suggett |
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Luong Nguyen Project: High rate CO2 capture and wastewater treatment by a novel microalgal photobioreactor Supervisor: Professor Long Nghiem |
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Julia Scott-Stevenson Project: Envisaging and enacting just climate futures through immersive media Supervisor: Professor James Goodman |
2021 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellows
2021 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow
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Jonathan Jones (Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research) Project: Walanmarra Wiradjuri ngiyangbu mayinybu (Strengthening Wiradjuri language and people) Supervisor: Professor Daryle Rigney |
2021 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows
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Andrew Care (Faculty of Science) Project: "Unlocking the Cage": Engineering protein nanocages for next-generation nanoparticle-based therapies. Supervisor: Stella Valenzuela |
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Brigitte Sommer (Faculty of Science) Project: Should I stay or should I go? Predicting ecological shifts in the subtropics. Supervisor: Professor David Booth |
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Amir Razmjou (Faculty of Engineering and IT) Project: Design and development of novel lithium-ion selective nanostructured membrane for lithium recovery. Supervisor: Professor Hokyong Shon |
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Alexandria Grey (Faculty of Law) Project: New legal directions in Australian government support for Aboriginal language renewal. Supervisor: Ana Vrdoljak |
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Elliot Scanes (Faculty of Science) Project: Are microbiomes the key to unlocking oyster disease in a rapidly changing climate? Supervisor: Professor Justin Seymour |
2020 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow 2020
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Tui Nolan (Faculty of Science) Project: Sampling methods in machine learning algorithms for statistical inference in big data models Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Matt Wand |
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2020
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Paul Byron (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) Project: LGBTIQ+ young people, mental health and digital peer support Supervisor: Dr James Meese |
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Jaesung (Peter) Choi (Faculty of Science) Project: Sex hormone and microbiome regulation of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and stroke Supervisor: Professor Philip Hansbro |
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Emma Letizia Jones (Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building) Project: Built by the book: The global impact of the trade catalogue in nineteenth century Australia Supervisor: Professor Charles Rice |
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Nathan Kettlewell (UTS Business School) Project: Risk attitudes and economic wellbeing Supervisor: Professor Lionel Page |
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Stephen Northey (Institute for Sustainable Futures) Project: Battery industries and sustainable development: transforming metal supply chains Supervisor: Professor Damien Guirco |
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Dong Han (Michael) Seo (Faculty of Engineering and IT) Project: Next generation, advanced material based membrane for battery driven, portable water desalination Supervisor: Professor Hokyong Shon |
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Bill Söderström (Faculty of Science) Project: Advanced technology development: an out-of-the-box approach to fight against antimicrobial resistance Supervisor: Professor Liz Harry |
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Cait Storr (Faculty of Law) Project: Regulating 'new' mining in the international seabed and space Supervisor: Professor Shaunnagh Dorsett |
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Javad Tavakoli (Faculty of Engineering and IT) Project: Novel engineering solutions to cure back pain: Engineering a novel 3D tissue for disc regeneration Supervisor: Professor Joanne Tipper |
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Qiaoyun Xie (Faculty of Science) Project: Forecasting pollen in the scenario of climate change to mitigate health threats Supervisor: Distinguished Professor Alfredo Huete |
Videos
Four of our Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows offer insights into their research:
- Arian Wallach, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, Faculty of Science
- Tim Foster, Institute for Sustainable Futures
- Romy Lauche, Australian Research Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM)
- Jean Baptiste-Raina, Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science
2019 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Congratulations to the 2019 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows (CPDRF):
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow 2019
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Katrina Thorpe Project: Learning from Country’ in Teacher Education in Australia and Canada Supervised by Professor Michelle Trudgett |
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows 2019
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Chelsea Barnett Project: Toxic Masculinity, or Just Misunderstood? A History of Single Men in Australia, 1945—2018 Supervised by Associate Professor Anna Clark |
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Emma Camp Project: Extremes Down Under: Diagnosing coral resilience to future reef climates Supervised by Associate Professor David Suggett |
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Juan Pablo Dehollain Project: Optimising near-term quantum simulators with superconducting circuits by adding a touch of chaos Supervised by Dr Nathan Langford |
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Evelyne Deplazes Project: Cell membrane-disrupting peptides to combat multi-drug resistance in cancer and infections Supervised by Dr Charles Cranfield |
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Sejeong Kim Project: Next-generation nanophotonics: Engineering light-matter interactions in two dimensions Supervised by Professor Igor Aharonovich |
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Wei Lin Project: Integrated Wireless Power Transfer and Communication Systems for Emerging IoT/IoE Applications Supervised by Professor Richard Ziolkowski |
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Laura Smith-Khan Project: Communicating migration law and procedures across cultures Supervised by Dr Trish Luker |
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Trong Toan Tran Project: Scalable telecom cybersecurity architecture Supervised by Dr Alexander Solntsev |
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Fan Wang Project: Developing new tools for super-resolution tracking cells’ talk within a mini organ Supervised by Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin |
2018 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Congratulations to the 2018 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows (CPDRF):
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Regulating microRNA as a novel treatment of inflammatory and infectious diseases
Supervised by Dr Bernadette Saunders -
Genomic epidemiology of known and novel viral livestock diseases
Supervised by Associate Professor Aaron Darling -
Energy-efficient desalinisation for Australia: In-situ biofouling index and carbon storage
Supervised by Distinguished Professor Saravanamuth Vigneswaran -
Value of choice in Cancer care
Supervised by Distinguished Professor Rosalie Viney -
Lipophilic cardiovascular drug disruption of protein/phospholipid membrane interactions
Supervised by Dr Charles Cranfield -
Understanding autism in girls and women
Supervised by Dr John McAloon -
Fundamental mechanisms involved in antibiotic resistance and virulence of Acinetobacter baumannii
Supervised by A/Prof Cynthia Whitchurch -
Can green infrastructure technology mitigate the impending air quality crisis in Australia?
Supervised by Professor John Zhou -
Increasing access to Maternal and Child Health Services for African refugees
Supervised by Associate Professor Angela Dawson -
Digitising crime histories: Perceptions and realities of criminality in Australia
Supervised by Dr Tamson Pietsch -
Search and recovery of human remains and associated evidence in mass burials
Supervised by Professor Shari Forbes -
Engineering “white graphene” for efficient, on-chip quantum light emitting diodes
Supervised by Professor Milos Toth -
Ultra-sensitive Wideband Mm-wave HTS Receiver for Future Spectrum Sensing
Supervised by Distinguished Professor Yingjie Jay Guo -
Upconversion nanoscale thermometry: enabling high brightness in a thermal field
Supervised by Distinguished Professor Dayong Jin
Past Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows
Read more about our past Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows, including the full list of successful applicants for the past five years:
- 2017: Fellowship scheme brings leading researchers to UTS
- 2016: Fellowships bring outstanding researchers to UTS in 2015
- 2015: Record number of fellowships to back UTS young researchers in 2014
- 2014: Postdoctoral fellowships bring best and brightest in 2013
- 2013: UTS boosts support for young researchers