Research areas & Researchers

The Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) focuses the School's research efforts on engineering for the benefit of society.

The research activities of department are diverse, and are focussed principally around four key themes: Environmental Process Engineering; Nano & Bioprocess Engineering; Bioprocess; and Materials & Minerals Engineering.

Research area	Researchers
Environmental Process Engineering
Water & waste water processing	Staff: Mike Connor; Ross de Kretser; David Dixon; George Franks; Tom Healy; Sandra Kentish; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens; Shane Usher Students: Sam Cook; John-Paul O'Shea;
Process sustainability	Staff: Ross de Kretser; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens; Jannie van Deventer Students:
Greenhouse gas recovery	Staff: Clare Anderson; Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao; Colin Scholes; Kathryn Smith; Geoff Stevens Students: Michael Simioni
Energy sources, storage, utilisation	Staff: William Ducker; Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao
Nano & Bioprocess Engineering
Nanostructured & nanofunctional materials	Staff: Frank Caruso; Dave Dunstan; Andrea O'Connor; Sally Gras; Sandra Kentish; Peter Scales; Shuhui Wu Students: Rory Anderson; Alexandra Angelatos; Alisa Becker; Nikko Chan; Lillian Lee; Ranya Simons; Thu-Hang Ta
Tailored biomaterials & emulsions	Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; George Franks; Sandra Kentish; Andrea O'Connor; Emma Prime; Geoff Stevens Students: Zura AbdulHamid
Nano-separations & filtration technologies	Staff: Sally Gras; Sandra Kentish; Andrea O'Connor; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens Student:
Nano-mechanical interactions at solid & liquid surfaces	Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; Dave Dunstan; George Franks; Geoff Stevens Students:
Nano-diagnostics, nano-toxicology, nano-therapeutics	Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; Dave Dunstan; Sally Gras; Andrea O'Connor
Fermentation processes and scale-up	Staff: Dave Dunstan; Sally Gras; Greg Martin Students:
Materials & Minerals Engineering
New and sustainable routes to materials processing	Staff: David Boger; Ross deKretser; Peter Duxson; Dingwu Feng; Tom Healy; John Provis; Greg Qiao; Peter Scales; Geoff Stevens; Shane Usher; Jannie vanDeventer Students: Ailar Hajimohammadi; Anat Kiviti-Manor; Lusiana Kirniawan; Yap Nee-San; Rudolf Spehar; Yong, Chu Zheng; Waven Zhang
Tailored inorganic materials	Staff: George Franks; Andrea O'Connor; John Provis; Geoff Stevens; Jannie van Deventer Students: Claire White
Process modelling	Staff: Ray Dagastine; Ross de Kretser; Malcolm Davidson; Sandra Kentish; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens; Shane Usher; Jannie vanDeventer Students: Joannelle Bacus; Kathryn Mumford; Rudolf Spehar
New polymeric structures & materials	Staff: Frank Caruso; Dave Dunstan; Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao; Geoff Stevens Students: Tor-Kit Goh; Tan Jing Fung Tan; James Wiltshire
Rheology of non-Newtonian suspensions & liquids	Staff: David Boger; Ross deKretser; Malcolm Davidson; Dave Dunstan; George Franks; Peter Scales; Shane Usher Students: Nikko Chan

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Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Research areas & Researchers

Research area

Researchers

Environmental Process Engineering

Nano & Bioprocess Engineering

Materials & Minerals Engineering

Melbourne School of Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering