College of Science & Engineering

Sophia Love

Sophia Love

Romain Vaucher

Romain Vaucher

Jenny Fisher

Jenny Fisher

Ambili Narayanan

Ambili Narayanan

Sarfaraz Ali

Sarfaraz Ali

Mikaeylah Davidson

Mikaeylah Davidson

Liuxin Chen

Liuxin Chen

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Rafael Cabral Carvalho

Tom Lloyd

Tom Lloyd

Mohamadreza Chalak Qazani

Mohamadreza Chalak Qazani

Investigating the archaeological values of Marra cultural heritage sites (Old ID 31114)
Cassandra Rowe
01 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2027
This project aims to investigate the archaeological landscape of Limmen National Park, the traditional Country of the Marra people, and to inform the creation of a cultural heritage management plan. It builds on a long-standing relationship with the Marra and the urgency to preserve their cultural knowledge associated with the Park. The project will use a two-way thinking methodology, combining contemporary Aboriginal knowledge with archaeological and anthropological data to understand the meaning of the archaeological record for Aboriginal people today. Key outcomes include data for continent-wide archaeological narratives, a holistic blueprint to help manage the Park’s cultural heritage, and an archive for Traditional Owner research.
Enhanced weathering for carbon dioxide removal under tropical soil conditions
Paul Nelson
01 Jul 2024 - 30 Dec 2027
To meet climate targets we must drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but we will also need to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A novel ‘negative emission technology’ showing considerable promise is enhanced weathering. This involves applying crushed weatherable rock such as basalt to topsoil, where weathering reactions convert carbon dioxide gas to dissolved bicarbonate, which then flows to the sea where it is stored as bicarbonate or carbonate. In this project we will test the effect of soil properties and management factors on carbon dioxide removal via enhanced weathering in a tropical agricultural environment.
Is the pygmy Coremiocnemis sp. “social”?
Tasmin Rymer
01 Apr 2024 - 30 Nov 2024
The primary objective is to study social behaviours of the pygmy Coremiocnemis sp. The project has two main aims. (1) I aim to describe and quantify the extent to which the pygmy Coremiocnemis sp. demonstrates subsociality in captivity. (2) I aim to determine whether subsociality is simply a consequence of captivity, or whether subsociality is present in wild populations. If they demonstrate subsociality, this study will represent the first demonstration of these behaviours in a tropical tarantula species from Australia. This project aligns with the Foundation objective of “Pure research aimed at understanding rainforest flora and fauna, ecosystems, processes and biological interactions”.
The relative contribution of gleaning to Tonga's inshore fishery
Patrick Smallhorn-West
15 Mar 2024 - 12 May 2025
The services to be provided are, as part of a team detailed in C.A.5 Specified Personnel and C.A.6 Subcontractors, to travel to Tonga to undertake a scoping study to evaluate the contribution of gleaning activities in Tonga’s inshore fisheries. The scoping study will include scoping activities such as; • reviewing existing data including the small survey done by the Vava’u Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with Ministry of Fisheries Tonga (MoF) and any other available data on gleaning that MoF has been collecting (hard drives, reports etc). This activity is expected to take approximately 1 week and will involve working from MoF offices with MoF staff member, Sela Kioa. The specified personnel, Dr Patrick Smallhorn-West, holds an MoU with MoF for the purposes of supporting research on Tonga’s marine ecosystems and fisheries to strengthen the resilience of these systems, generate high quality research outputs, support knowledge co-production, and improve overall efficacy of marine management and conservation in Tonga. The current MoU will expire in January 2027, at which time an extension will be discussed. • conducting community land surveys and market surveys in 9-12 communities (3-4 in each island group). The surveys will involve recording catch (kg, species) and effort (hrs) of people in gleaning communities. Market data will also be paired with these surveys to attribute a dollar value to catch. The surveys will be conducted in person by the specified personnel and subcontractors. Once the survey methodology is finalised, it will be shared with the Contract Manager for approval. The activities are being undertaken in order to understand the extent and economic contribution of gleaning in Tonga. The Supplier is required to work with the Tongan Ministry of Fisheries when undertaking the scoping activities. The Supplier is required to submit a detailed work plan that will include an estimated timeline of activities, in Word format via email to the Contract Manager by 31 March 2024. At the completion of the services, the Supplier is required to submit a draft report that documents a summary of activities, trip report, review results including the key findings, opportunities and recommendations. The draft report is to be submitted by 1 February 2025. Following feedback from the Contract Manager, the final report is due by 28 February 2025.
Leveraging digital technology to reduce the prevalence and severity of eating disorders in Australia (WIRED project)
Adrian Shatte
01 Jan 2020 - 27 Jun 2022
Inter-linked studies exploring efficacy, user experience and cost-effectiveness of app based delivery of eating disorder interventions. The project also tackles influence of social media conversations on treatment seeking and disordered eating behaviours
Carbon accounting for sustainable design and manufacturing in the signage industry
Adrian Shatte
01 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
Industry partnership with Diadem Pty. Ltd.
Evaluation of DigitalHealth@Home Remote Patient Monitoring Program
Adrian Shatte
01 Jan 2020 - 27 Jun 2022
Collaborating with Gippsland Primary Health Network, Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria, and Monash University to evaluate the implementation of DigitalHealth@Home remote patient monitoring tool in regional Victoria.
Augmented Reality to develop primary school students' balancing skills
Adrian Shatte
01 Jul 2021 - 27 Jun 2022
Partnership with GymbaROO in Victoria to develop and evaluate augmented reality tools and software for developing balancing skills in primary school children.
City of Casey Citizen Engagement Chatbot and Social Isolation Project
Adrian Shatte
01 Jan 2020 - 01 Dec 2021
Collaboration with City of Casey Council and interdisciplinary colleagues from Nursing to develop GIS tools for evaluating social isolation epidemic in CALD populations of Casey Cardinia regions of Victoria.
Refining the bidirectional encoder representations from transformer (BERT) model for semantic intent classification using Twitter data
Adrian Shatte
01 Jul 2020 - 01 Jul 2021
Improve classification accuracy on downstream tasks of BERT model in noisy and low-data regimes like Twitter.
Title: Member of the British Ecological Society Grant Review College
Reseracher: Myles Menz (Senior Lecturer, Zoology and Ecology)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2016
End Date: 01 Jan 2018
Title: Visiting Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Reseracher: Mohan Jacob (Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2006
End Date: 01 Jan 2006
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, James Cook University
Reseracher: Mohan Jacob (Professor)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2000
End Date: 01 Jan 2003
Title: Adjunct Professor of the School of Publica Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Reseracher: Ludwig Lopata (Professor, Personal Chair)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2010
Title: Reperio Innovation Award
Reseracher: Elsa Antunes (Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
Title: IEEE
Reseracher: Jiajia Yang (Associate Professor, Renewable Energy and Electrical Engineering)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2023
Title: Senior Lecturer, James Cook University
Reseracher: Yang Liu (Associate Professor, Analytical Chemistry)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2021
End Date: 01 Jan 2024
Title: Lecturer, James Cook University
Reseracher: Yang Liu (Associate Professor, Analytical Chemistry)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2018
End Date: 01 Jan 2021
Title: Chemist and Research Officer, ChemCentre
Reseracher: Yang Liu (Associate Professor, Analytical Chemistry)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2016
End Date: 01 Jan 2018
Title: Research Associate, Curtin University
Reseracher: Yang Liu (Associate Professor, Analytical Chemistry)
Start Date: 01 Jan 2013
End Date: 01 Jan 2016