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The Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources’s vision is to develop and accelerate solutions that deliver sustainability, equity and prosperity for the planet and its people. Our priority is to share knowledge and support our industry partners, government and communities to help them navigate evolving economic markets, new technologies, legal regulation, increasing complexities, cultural change, climate adaptation and up-skilling of workforces.
The University will respond across the (SDGs), engaging in the world's biggest challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace, and justice.
Our sustainability experts
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SDG 1 - No poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Name Research expertise - Plant Bioelectronics
- Hydrogel Fiber
- Carbon Fiber
- Composites for Energy and Agriculture Applications
- Sustainable energy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
- Health systems and health outcomes
- Educational innovations such as poverty simulation
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Zero-hunger Efforts
- Rights-based Frameworks
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Nature-based learning and the benefits of nature engagement amongst children
- Cognitive and behavioural development and psychophysiology
- Child sleep and cognition, sleep disorders, memory and learning
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
Ekkachai Oonnankat - Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Making cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable
- Inclusive education to enable upward social mobility and end poverty
Dr Alexandra Peralta - Agriculture and Food Economics
- Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Creating jobs for all to improve living standards, providing sustainable economic growth
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Zero-hunger Efforts
- Rights-based Frameworks
- Food consumptiondecisions
- Food security in the Pacific
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 2 - No hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Name Research expertise - Plant Bioelectronics
- Hydrogel Fiber
- Carbon Fiber
- Composites for Energy and Agriculture Applications
- Food values and ethics
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Improving Indigenous research capabilities
- Risk Management and the Risk Society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Plant phenomics
- Non-destructive imaging to study the effects of environmental conditions
- Mechanisms involved in health and disease
- Development of prevention or intervention strategies
- Soil ecological processes in achieving sustainability
- Soil management and environmental change
- Urban agriculture, soil carbon, microbiomes
Dr Nick Collins - Development of new heat stress tolerant wheat varieties
- Supporting the urban forest through variety development
- Microclimate impacts on tree survival and health
- Australian plants for amenity, food, and bioactive compounds
- Agronomy and soil biology
- Crops and pastures, including grain legumes and pasture legumes
- Farming systems
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Responsible, sustainable and resilient supply chains
- Modern slavery, circular business model
- Agile and flexible capability supply chains
- Food chemistry
- Flavour chemistry
- Plant based foods
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Plasma chemistry and flow chemistry
- Process design and fertilisers
- Space resources and sustainability
- Human and livestock wellbeing
- Resilience measurement and interventions
- Design of catalyst materials for clean energy applications
- Molecular modelling
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Coastal restoration
- Ecosystem services including blue carbon
- Innovative modelling and analytics
- Bridging the gap between data and decisions in agriculture
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
Associate Professor Zohra Lassi - Evidence-based nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive intervention
- Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in disadvantaged and resourced constrained settings
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
- Women empowerment
- Adoption of drought resilience practices in mixed farming and rangeland livestock production systems
- Education in sustainable agriculture
- Impacts of climate change on plant processes
- Soil ecology
- Nutrient cycling
- Interrelationship between nutrition and oral health
- Compromised oral health on risk of malnutrition
- Intervention to reduce sugars intake
- Natural capital economics, measurement of ecosystem services
- Design of incentives and market-based instruments (auctions and offsets)
- Emerging markets
Dr Alexandra Peralta - Agriculture and Food Economics
- Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Creating jobs for all to improve living standards, providing sustainable economic growth
- Weed management
- Integratingcutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics with agriculture to realize smart farming.
- Developing intelligent agricultural systems covering "information-agronomy-agricultural machinery" to support sustainable production and promote unmanned farms.
(PhD Candidate)- Sustainable production system for Agave tequilana
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
(PhD Candidate)- Urban agriculture in building community resilience in the face of climate change
- Zero-hunger Efforts
- Rights-based Frameworks
- Food comsumptions decisions
- Food security in the pacific
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 3 - Good health and wellbeing
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Name Research expertise - Climate change and population health
- Health risk assessment, adaptation and community resilience
- Mechanisms involved in health and disease
- Development of prevention or intervention strategies
- Health systems and health outcomes
- Educational innovations such as poverty simulation
- Plasma chemistry and flow chemistry
- Process design and fertilisers
- Space resources and sustainability
- Radiation across defence, mining, industry, and medicine
- Provision of radioanalytical services and education programs
- Nutraceutical-based treatments for disorders of the digestive system
- Environmental determinants and outcomes related to children's health behaviours
- Human and livestock wellbeing
- Resilience measurement and interventions
- Nature-based learning and the benefits of nature engagement amongst children
- Cognitive and behavioural development and psychophysiology
- Child sleep and cognition, sleep disorders, memory and learning
- Evidence-based nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive intervention
- Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in disadvantaged and resourced constrained settings
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
- Women empowerment
- Health impacts, burden of disease from climatic extremes
- One Health approach - emphasizinginterconnectedness among human, animal, and environmental health
- Sustainable water mechanisms
- Economics of reallocation, risk and uncertainty scenario analysis and irrigation
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Impact of climate change and other human activities on marine ecosystems
- Design of optimisation methods in areas such as health, energy and mining
- Developing sustainable services
- Effectiveness of promoting and communication of sustainability
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Mental health and well being (focus on children and people with health conditions)
- Ovarian function, and early embryo development
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Built environment and design
- Sustainability and health/wellbeing outcomes
- Age-friendly design
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy human populations
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
- Green building, resource efficiency, waste recycling and management
- Circular economy
- Low carbon technologies and policies
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SDG 4 - Quality education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Name Research expertise - Risk Management and the Risk Society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Health systems and health outcomes
- Educational innovations such as poverty simulation
- Mathematical Geoscience
- Geostatistics
- Mine optimisation
- Real-time data integration and resource model updating
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Nature-based learning and the benefits of nature engagement amongst children
- Cognitive and behavioural development and psychophysiology
- Child sleep and cognition, sleep disorders, memory and learning
- Sustainable technologies to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy and mineral resources
Dr Beth Loveys - Education in sustainable agriculture
- Impacts of climate change on plant processes
- Combustion andhydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
Ekkachai Oonnankat - Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Making cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable
- Inclusive education to enable upward social mobility and end poverty
- Critical mineral geology
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 5 - Gender equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Name Research expertise - Integration of diversity and inclusion into marketing practises
- Mathematical Geoscience
- Geostatistics
- Mine optimisation
- Real-time data integration and resource model updating
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology of climate change
Ms Adriana Espejo Sanchez
(PhD Candidate)- Gender, Trade and Development in Global Production Value Chains: Case of Developing Countries / Examining trade liberalization effects on gender (wage inequality and labour market differences)
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
Dr Rachelle Kernen - Geological research for critical minerals needed to build solar panels and wind farms
- Storing CO2to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and finding and storing H2 to use as clean fuel
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
- Community engagement and environmental change
- Community resilience and Indigenous climate adaption
- Costal management, fisheries and marine environments
Dr Alexandra Peralta - Agriculture and Food Economics
- Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Education regardless of gender, advancement of equality laws, fairer representation of women
- Creating jobs for all to improve living standards, providing sustainable economic growth
- Ovarian function, and early embryo development
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 6 - Clean water
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Name Research expertise - Plant Bioelectronics
- Hydrogel Fiber
- Carbon Fiber
- Composites for Energy and Agriculture Applications
- Renewable energy systems
- Hydrogen technologies
- Energy storage
- Sustainable energy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology of climate change
Dr Xiaoguang Duan - Green technologies for water purification and waste management
- Production of sustainable functional materials and fuels
- Development ofcomputational approaches to understand the chemistry driving new materials for future applications.
- Isotope tracing of metals and radionuclides in soils, groundwaters, vegetation, sediments and water
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Geophysics for exploration
- Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) system, which has a directimpact on the community by enabling groundwater systems to be fully understood
- Increasing water‐use efficiency of underground freshwater
- Forecasting the spread of a contaminant in groundwater in long-short time scales
- Emerging application of ATTA fornuclear monitoring
Dr Tatiana Khmeleva - Developing tools for integrating the entire mining value chain
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Water resources and supply
- Renewable energy
- Natural hazards
- Smart stormwater management
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Rehabilitating legacy mines
- Recovering critical minerals from legacy mine waste
- Ovarian function, and early embryo development
- Light initiated degradation of persistent organic pollutants
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Advanced materials and catalytic processes for energy conversion
- Environmental remediation and carbon dioxide reduction
- Climate risk
- Environmental systems
- Hydrology
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 7 - Affordable and clean energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Name Research expertise - Plant Bioelectronics
- Hydrogel Fiber
- Carbon Fiber
- Composites for Energy and Agriculture Applications
- Renewable energy systems
- Hydrogen technologies
- Energy storage
- Sustainableenergy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Ocean wave energy
- Construction
- Renewable energy
- Science of mineralogy
- Mineral concentration as ores
- Substainable and economic mineral extraction
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
- Hydrogen Storage and Research
- Scaling Green Hydrogen CRC
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
Dr Xiaoguang Duan - Green technologies for water purification and waste management
- Production of sustainable functional materials and fuels
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
- Development of computational approaches to understand the chemistry driving new materials for future applications.
MrsMary Gonzalez - Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Reversing current consumption trends and promoting a more sustainable future
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
- Sustainability prioritization of industrial systems, including new hydrogen production technologies
- Build research capability and multi-disciplinary collaborative teams with focus on sustainability, energy and resources sectors
- Meet resource demand to meet NetZero targets while minimising impact on the environment and communities
Associate Professor Manouchehr Haghighi - Petroleum engineering, geomechanics,data analytics and application of machine learning in subsurface data.
- CO2 sequestration
- Hydrogen recycling in subsurface formations.
- Geophysics for exploration
- Plasma chemistry and flow chemistry
- Process design and fertilisers
- Space resources and sustainability
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
- Radiation across defence, mining, industry, and medicine
- Provision of radioanalytical services and education programs
- Design of catalyst materials for clean energy applications
- Molecular modelling
- Electrocatalysis for green fuel production
- Geological research for critical minerals needed to build solar panels and wind farms
- Storing CO2to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and finding and storing H2 to use as clean fuel
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Water resources and supply
- Renewable energy
- Natural hazards
- Smart stormwater management
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Catalysts and processes for chemical and energy transformations
- Decarbonisation of high temperature industrial processes (iron/steel, cement/lime and alumina/aluminium)
- Effeciency on the use of electricity
- Power systems
- Energy storage integration
- Transportation and mine electrification
Alireza Salmachi - Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
(PhD Candidate)- Sustainable production system for Agave tequilana
- Carbon Storage Science
- Porous materials for applications to transport-focused hydrogen storage
- Energy efficient gas separations
- Low energy chemical conversion (catalysis)
Associate Professor Wen Soong - Electric machines and drives, electric transportation, renewable energy and energy storage
- Industry decarbonisation
- Renewable fuels
- Combustion and Hydrogen
- Integration of ESG into process design and optimisation
- Focusing on the decentralisation and down-scaling of the mega-central plant, based on utilising local resources.
- Advanced materials and catalytic processes for energy conversion
- Environmental remediation and carbon dioxide reduction
- Renewable energy and energy conservation law
- Environmental law
- Mining law (focusing on regulatory frameworks and environmental protection)
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
Dr Abbas Zeinijahromi - Laboratory modelling of Multi phase fluid flow in porous media
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
- Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Green building, resource efficiency, waste recycling and management
- Circular economy
- Low carbon technologies and policies
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SDG 8 - Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Name Research expertise - Markets, business ecosystems, and social entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Environmental and social outcomes
- Circular economy and sustainability transitions
- Risk management and the risk society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
Ms Adriana Espejo Sanchez
(PhD Candidate)- Gender, trade and development in global production value chains: case of developing countries / examining trade liberalization effects on gender (wage inequality and labour market differences)
- Responsible, sustainable and resilient supply chains
- Modern slavery, circular business model
- Agile and flexible capability supply chains
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Industry 4.0 with sustainable supply chain focus
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Geophysics for exploration
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Sustainable procurement and entrepreneurship
- Digitalisation, environmental sustainable solutions and resilient manufacturing systems
Dr Tatiana Khmeleva - Developing tools for integrating the entire mining value chain
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
- Design of optimisation methods in areas such as health, energy and mining
Dr Alexandra Peralta - Agriculture and Food Economics
- Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Education regardless of gender, advancement of equality laws, fairer representation of women
- Creating jobs for all to improve living standards, providing sustainable economic growth
- Critical mineral geology
- Climate change and migration in China
- Environmental-induced displacement and resettlement
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 9 - Industry, innovation and infrastructure
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Name Research expertise - Renewable energy systems
- Hydrogen technologies
- Energy storage
- Mine Operational Vehicle Electrification (MOVE)
- Developing simulation and analysis tools for mining fleet electrification planning and operation
- Markets, business ecosystems, and social entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Environmental and social outcomes
- Circular economy and sustainability transitions
- Sustainable energy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Ocean wave energy
- Science of mineralogy
- Mineral concentration as ores
- Substainable and economic mineral extraction
- Supporting the urban forest through variety development
- Microclimate impacts on tree survival and health
- Australian plants for amenity, food, and bioactive compounds
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
MousalrezaFaramarzi Palangar - Advanced electric machines design, Sustainable energy conversion, High-performance and sustainable material engineering
- Isotope tracing of metals and radionuclides in soils, groundwaters, vegetation, sediments and water
- Sustainability prioritization of industrial systems, including new hydrogen production technologies
- Build research capability and multi-disciplinary collaborative teams with focus on sustainability, energy and resources sectors
- Meet resource demand to meet NetZero targets while minimising impact on the environment and communities
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Industry 4.0 with sustainable supply chain focus
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Geophysics for exploration
- Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) system, which has a directimpact on the community by enabling groundwater systems to be fully understood
- Increasing water‐use efficiency of underground freshwater
- Forecasting the spread of a contaminant in groundwater in long-short time scales
- Emerging application of ATTA fornuclear monitoring
(PhD Candidate)- Australian dairy sector adoption of sustainable food loss and waste management practices
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
- Radiation across defence, mining, industry, and medicine
- Provision of radioanalytical services and education programs
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Sustainable procurement and entrepreneurship
- Digitalisation, environmental sustainable solutions and resilient manufacturing systems
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Sustainable technologies to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy and mineral resources
- Applying porous materials in carbon capture and utilisation (focusing on CO2 reduction catalysis), and hydrogen storage
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Decarbonisation of high temperature industrial processes (iron/steel, cement/lime and alumina/aluminium)
- Design of optimisation methods in areas such as health, energy and mining
- Rehabilitating legacy mines
- Recovering critical minerals from legacy mine waste
- Reducingthe reliance on wild fisheries derived protein for aquaculture
- Insect production for organic waste management
- Protein meal
- Chitin and biodiesel production
(PhD Candidate)- Natural hazards (i.e. bushfire) and options to reduce associated risks
- Working towards participatory, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary decision making in the field of natural hazards
- Light initiated degradation of persistent organic pollutants
- Cyber-physical systems and security
- Multi-agent/robot systems, network systems, autonomous systems
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring
- Sensors for ionising radiation detection in mining and medicine
- "Novel Fluorescence" materials sensors for both terrestrial and space applications
- Porous materials for applications to transport-focused hydrogen storage
- Energy efficient gas separations
- Low energy chemical conversion (catalysis)
- Integration of ESG into process design and optimisation
- Focusing on the decentralisation and down-scaling of the mega-central plant, based on utilising local resources
- Development of LIDAR systems for atmospheric remote sensing
- In-situ recovery of minerals
- Geostatistics and resource estimation
- Mine planning and mine optimisation
- Green building, resource efficiency, waste recycling and management
- Circular economy
- Low carbon technologies and policies
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SDG 10 - Reduced inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Name Research expertise - Market-shaping for improved social and environmental outcomes
- Business model innovation for social purpose organizations
- Social entrepreneurial ecosystem development
- Just transitions and stewardship, including product stewardship
- Detection of carbonwashing/ greenwashing in firms
- Research on Circular Economy Practices
- Social inclusion and environmental sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement and shaping markets and ecosystems
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
- Health systems and health outcomes
- Educational innovations such as poverty simulation
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
Ms Adriana Espejo Sanchez
(PhD Candidate)- Gender, trade and development in global production value chains: case of developing countries / examining trade liberalization effects on gender (wage inequality and labour market differences)
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
Associate Professor Zohra Lassi - Evidence-based nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive intervention
- Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in disadvantaged and resourced constrained settings
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
- Women empowerment
- Health impacts, burden of disease from climatic extremes
- One Health approach - emphasizinginterconnectedness among human, animal, and environmental health
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
Dr Alexandra Peralta - Agriculture and Food Economics
- Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Education regardless of gender, advancement of equality laws, fairer representation of women
- Creating jobs for all to improve living standards, providing sustainable economic growth
- Developing sustainable services
- Effectiveness of promoting and communication of sustainability
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Climate change and migration in China
- Environmental-induced displacement and resettlement
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
Professor Ralf Zurbrugg - Just transitions and stewardship
- Detection of carbonwashing/ greenwashing in firms
- Crop Insurance under climate change
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SDG 11 - Sustainable cities and communities
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Name Research expertise - Plant Bioelectronics
- Hydrogel Fiber
- Carbon Fiber
- Composites for Energy and Agriculture Applications
- Market-shaping for improved social and environmental outcomes
- Business model innovation for social purpose organizations
- Social entrepreneurial ecosystem development
- Risk management and the risk society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Climate change and population health
- Health risk assessment, adaptation and community resilience
- Sustainable energy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Soil ecological processes in achieving sustainability
- Soil management and environmental change
- Urban agriculture, soil carbon, microbiomes
- Construction
- Renewable energy
- Research on circular economy practices
- Social inclusion and environmental sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement and shaping markets and ecosystems
- Supporting the urban forest through variety development
- Microclimate impacts on tree survival and health
- Australian plants for amenity, food, and bioactive compounds
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology of climate change
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Industry 4.0 with sustainable supply chain focus
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Geophysics for exploration
Dr Clare Hume Environmental determinants and outcomes related to children's health behaviours - Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Sustainable procurement and entrepreneurship
- Digitalisation, environmental sustainable solutions and resilient manufacturing systems
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Health impacts, burden of disease from climatic extremes
- One Health approach - emphasizinginterconnectedness among human, animal, and environmental health
- Sustainable water mechanisms
- Economics of reallocation, risk and uncertainty scenario analysis and irrigation
- Water resources and supply
- Renewable energy
- Natural hazards
- Smart stormwater management
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
- Community engagement and environmental change
- Community resilience and Indigenous climate adaption
- Costal management, fisheries and marine environments
- Natural capital economics, measurement of ecosystem services
- Design of incentives and market-based instruments (auctions and offsets)
- Emerging markets
Ekkachai Oonnankat - Access to basic human needs of health, education, sanitation
- Making cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable
- Inclusive education to enable upward social mobility and end poverty
(PhD Candidate)- Natural hazards (i.e. bushfire) and options to reduce associated risks
- Working towards participatory, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary decision making in the field of natural hazards
- Cyber-physical systems and security
- Multi-agent/robot systems, network systems, autonomous systems
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Built environment and design
- Sustainability and health/wellbeing outcomes
- Age-Friendly design
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Climate change and migration in China
- Environmental-induced displacement and resettlement
(PhD Candidate)- Urban agriculture in building community resilience in the face of climate change
- Climate risk
- Environmental systems
- Hydrology
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
- Combining the Internet of Things with AI
- Drone-aided smart health
- Green building, resource efficiency, waste recycling and management
- Circular economy
- Low carbon technologies and policies
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SDG 12 - Responsible consumption and production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Name Research expertise - Risk and uncertainty in decision making: climate change, water resources and biosecurity
- Food values and ethics
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Improving Indigenous research capabilities
- Markets, business ecosystems, and social entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Environmental and social outcomes
- Circular economy and sustainability transitions
- Crop Insurance under climate change
- Detection of carbonwashing/greenwashing in firms
- Just transitions and stewardship, including product stewardship
- Detection of carbonwashing/greenwashing in firms
- Research on circular economy practices
- Social inclusion and environmental sustainability
- Stakeholder engagement and shaping markets and ecosystems
- Science of mineralogy
- Mineral concentration as ores
- Substainable and economic mineral extraction
- Consumer adoption of alternative sustainable packaging for wine
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology ofclimate change
- Responsible, sustainable and resilient supply chains
- Modern slavery, circular business model
- Agile and flexible capability supply chains
- Environmental science including marine and fisheries research
MrsMary Gonzalez - Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Reversing current consumption trends and promoting a more sustainable future
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Industry 4.0 with sustainable supply chain focus
- Sustainable consumption and production
- Petroleum engineering, geomechanics,data analytics and application of machine learning in subsurface data.
- CO2 sequestration
- Hydrogen recycling in subsurface formations.
- Plasma chemistry and flow chemistry
- Process design and fertilisers
- Space resources and sustainability
(PhD Candidate)- Australian dairy sector adoption of sustainable food loss and waste management practices
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
Dr Clare Hume - Environmental determinants and outcomes related to children's health behaviours
- Human and livestock wellbeing
- Resilience measurement and interventions
- Consumer research relating to sustainable consumption
- Focus on how to design interventions to change consumer practices to be more sustainable
- Supply chain management and sustainable circular economy
- Sustainable procurement and entrepreneurship
- Digitalisation, environmental sustainable solutions and resilient manufacturing systems
Dr Tatiana Khmeleva - Developing tools for integrating the entire mining value chain
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Sustainable water mechanisms
- Economics of reallocation, risk and uncertainty scenario analysis and irrigation
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Natural capital economics, measurement of ecosystem services
- Design of incentives and market-based instruments (auctions and offsets)
- Emerging markets
- Rehabilitating legacy mines
- Recovering critical minerals from legacy mine waste
- Consumer responses to corporate social responsibility
- Characteristics and mechanisms influencing corporate social responsibiity effectiveness
Dr Stephen Pyecroft - Reducingthe reliance on wild fisheries derived protein for aquaculture
- Insect production for organic waste management
- Protein meal
- Chitin and biodiesel production
- Developing sustainable services
- Effectiveness of promoting and communication of sustainability
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Light initiated degradation of persistent organic pollutants
- Integration of ESG into process design and optimisation
- Focusing on the decentralisation and down-scaling of the mega-central plant, based on utilising local resources
(PhD Candidate)- Urban agriculture in building community resilience in the face of climate change
- Food comsumptions decisions
- Food security in the pacific
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
- Green building, resource efficiency, waste recycling and management
- Circular economy
- Low carbon technologies and policies
Professor Ralf Zurbrugg - Just transitions and stewardship
- Detection of carbonwashing/greenwashing in firms
- Crop Insurance under climate change
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SDG 13 - Climate action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Name Research expertise - Critical Metals Research
- Promoting renewable energy
- Risk and uncertainty in decision making: climate change, water resources and biosecurity
- Renewable energy systems
- Hydrogen technologies
- Energy storage
- Mine Operational Vehicle Electrification (MOVE)
- Developing simulation and analysis tools for mining fleet electrification planning and operation
- Risk management and the risk society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Plant phenomics
- Non-destructive imaging to study the effects of environmental conditions
- Climate change and population health
- Health risk assessment, adaptation and community resilience
- Sustainable energy engineering
- Humanitarian engineering
- Climate change law and law of the sea - governance of solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal technologies
- Soil ecological processes in achieving sustainability
- Soil management and environmental change
- Urban agriculture, soil carbon, microbiomes
- Ocean wave energy
- Construction
- Renewable energy
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) expert
- Just transition to renewable energy and the circular economy
- Project management and strategic planning advice
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology of climate change
- Renewable energy systems, e-Mobility, DC powered housing, wide bandgap power electronics, battery storage, power quality and microgrids.
- Development of computational approaches to understand the chemistry driving new materials for future applications.
- Environmental science including marine and fisheries research
MrsMary Gonzalez - Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Reversing current consumption trends and promoting a more sustainable future
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
- Sustainability prioritization of industrial systems, including new hydrogen production technologies
- Build research capability and multi-disciplinary collaborative teams with focus on sustainability, energy and resources sectors
- Meet resource demand to meet NetZero targets while minimising impact on the environment and communities
(PhD Candidate)- Australian dairy sector adoption of sustainable food loss and waste management practices
- Applied GeoEnergy problems, including CCS, related to structural geology and geomechanics in sedimentary basins
- Human and livestock wellbeing
- Resilience measurement and interventions
- Coastal restoration
- Ecosystem services including blue carbon
Dr Rachelle Kernen - Geological research for critical minerals needed to build solar panels and wind farms
- Storing CO2to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and finding and storing H2 to use as clean fuel
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Applying porous materials in carbon capture and utilisation (focusing on CO2 reduction catalysis), and hydrogen storage
- Water resources and supply
- Renewable energy
- Natural hazards
- Smart stormwater management
- Resource and environmental economics (fisheries)
- Household energy use
- Deforestation
- Smallholder farming
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Impact of climate change and other human activities on marine ecosystems
- TERN Ecosystem Processes site at Calperum Station via Renmark
- Measuring CO2, H2O and energy exchange over mallee
- Decarbonisation of high temperature industrial processes (iron/steel, cement/lime and alumina/aluminium)
- Design of optimisation methods in areas such as health, energy and mining
- Community engagement and environmental change
- Community resilience and Indigenous climate adaption
- Costal management, fisheries and marine environments
- Natural capital economics, measurement of ecosystem services
- Design of incentives and market-based instruments (auctions and offsets)
- Emerging markets
- School and community education on sustainability
- Power systems
- Energy storage integration
- Transportation and mine electrification
(PhD Candidate)- Natural hazards (i.e. bushfire) and options to reduce associated risks
- Working towards participatory, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary decision making in the field of natural hazards
- Developing sustainable services
- Effectiveness of promoting and communication of sustainability
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
Alireza Salmachi - Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
(PhD Candidate)- Sustainable production system for Agave tequilana
Dr Ulrike Schacht - Carbon Storage Science
- Cyber-physical systems and security
- Multi-agent/robot systems, network systems, autonomous systems
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Built environment and design
- Sustainability and health/wellbeing outcomes
- Age-Friendly design
Associate Professor Wen Soong - Electric machines and drives, electric transportation, renewable energy and energy storage
- Critical mineral geology
- Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Porous materials for applications to transport-focused hydrogen storage
- Energy efficient gas separations
- Low energy chemical conversion (catalysis)
- Integration of ESG into process design and optimisation
- Focusing on the decentralisation and down-scaling of the mega-central plant, based on utilising local resources
- Climate and environmental change
- Development of LIDAR systems for atmospheric remote sensing
- Advanced materials and catalytic processes for energy conversion
- Environmental remediation and carbon dioxide reduction
- Climate change adaptation and resilience
- International development policy
- Renewable energy and energy conservation law
- Environmental law
- Mining law (focusing on regulatory frameworks and environmental protection)
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
- Laboratory modelling of Multi phase fluid flow in porous media
- Regulating and reducing emissions and promoting renewable energy
- Access to renewable, safe and widely available energy sources for all
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SDG 14 - Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Name Research Expertise Dr Kerryn Brent Climate change law and law of the sea - governance of solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal technologies Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology ofclimate change
- Environmental science including marine and fisheries research
- Coastal restoration
- Ecosystem services including blue carbon
- Resource and environmental economics (fisheries)
- Household energy use
- Deforestation
- Smallholder farming
- Impact of climate change and other human activities on marine ecosystems
- Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems
- Fish biology
- Marine ecology
- Coastal & estuarine ecosystems
- Community engagement and environmental change
- Community resilience and Indigenous climate adaption
- Costal management, fisheries and marine environments
Dr Stephen Pyecroft - Reducingthe reliance on wild fisheries derived protein for aquaculture
- Insect production for organic waste management
- Protein meal
- Chitin and biodiesel production
- Environmental management accounting
- Climate and environmental change
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 15 - Life on land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Name Research expertise - Risk Management and the Risk Society
- Climate change adaptation
- Natural resource management in Australia and internationally
- Plant phenomics
- Non-destructive imaging to study the effects of environmental conditions
- Soil ecological processes in achieving sustainability
- Soil management and environmental change
- Urban agriculture, soil carbon, microbiomes
- Supporting the urban forest through variety development
- Microclimate impacts on tree survival and health
- Australian plants for amenity, food, and bioactive compounds
Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Isotope tracing of metals and radionuclides in soils, groundwaters, vegetation, sediments and water
- Responsible, sustainable and resilient supply chains
- Modern slavery, circular business model
- Agile and flexible capability supply chains
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
- Sustainable waste management
- Resource recovery from waste materials to support the growth of future industries
- Circular economy
- Adoption of drought resilience practices in mixed farming and rangeland livestock production systems
- Soil ecology
- Nutrient cycling
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- TERN Ecosystem Processes site at Calperum Station via Renmark
- Measuring CO2, H2O and energy exchange over mallee
- Community engagement and environmental change
- Community resilience and Indigenous climate adaption
- Costal management, fisheries and marine environments
- Natural capital economics, measurement of ecosystem services
- Design of incentives and market-based instruments (auctions and offsets)
- Emerging markets
(PhD Candidate)- Natural hazards (i.e. bushfire) and options to reduce associated risks
- Working towards participatory, multi-objective and multi-disciplinary decision making in the field of natural hazards
- Built environment and design
- Sustainability and health/wellbeing outcomes
- Age-Friendly design
- Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Climate and environmental change
- Relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy human populations
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Name Research expertise - Crop Insurance under climate change
- Detection of carbonwashing/greenwashing in firms
- External corporate social responsibility reporting
- Carbonaccounting disclosures
- Environmental anthropology
- Anthropology of food and water
- Food diversification and food security
- Anthropology ofclimate change
- Integrity in government
- Anti-corruption, good governance, development aid
Dr Rachelle Kernen - Geological research for critical minerals needed to build solar panels and wind farms
- Storing CO2to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and finding and storing H2 to use as clean fuel
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Employment, unemployment, inequality, housing, and public policy
- Research with disadvantaged groups and those living in rural and remote areas
- Innovative responses to complex social problems
- Consumer responses to corporate social responsibility
- Characteristics and mechanisms influencing corporate social responsibiity effectiveness
- Developing sustainable services
- Effectiveness of promoting and communication of sustainability
- Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
- Communication for social change, poverty reduction, empowerment, humanitarianism
- International development agencies, including ADB, AusAID, DFID, EU, GTZ and WHO
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Sustainability reporting by universities in Australia
- Information systems underpinning sustainability reporting
- Climate change adaptation and resilience
- International development policy
- Renewable energy and energy conservation law
- Environmental law
- Mining law (focusing on regulatory frameworks and environmental protection)
- Water markets, irrigated farming, climate change, water scarcity, crime and gambling
- Sustainability systems for viticulturists
- Economic modelling
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SDG 17 - Partnerships for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Name Research expertise Professor Peter Draper - Circular trade and value chain
- Agricultural subsidies on the environment
- Carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM)
- Mathematical Geoscience
- Geostatistics
- Mine optimisation
- Real-time data integration and resource model updating
- Responsible, sustainable and resilient supply chains
- Modern slavery, circular business model
- Agile and flexible capability supply chains
- Sustainability prioritization of industrial systems, including new hydrogen production technologies
- Build research capability and multi-disciplinary collaborative teams with focus on sustainability, energy and resources sectors
- Meet resource demand to meet NetZero targets while minimising impact on the environment and communities
- Rapid urban greening to help turnaround biodiversity loss in cities
- Biophilic urban design and urban biodiversity
- Landscape architecture and long term urban sustainability
- Analysis of agribusiness and agroforestry value chains
- Value chain improvement activities across the industry
- Production through to consumption from the perspective of the private and public sectors
Dr Rachelle Kernen - Geological research for critical minerals needed to build solar panels and wind farms
- Storing CO2to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and finding and storing H2 to use as clean fuel
Dr Tatiana Khmeleva - Developing tools for integrating the entire mining value chain
- Health impacts, burden of disease from climatic extremes
- One Health approach - emphasizinginterconnectedness among human, animal, and environmental health
- Combustion and hydrogen
- Humanitarian engineering
- Development of standards at national and international level
- Human health improvement through clinical and public health recommendations
- Optimisation and increased utilisation of greenspaces for human health outcomes
- Climate and environmental change
- Climate change adaptation and resilience
- International development policy
- In-situ recovery of minerals
- Geostatistics and resource estimation
- Mine planning and mine optimisation