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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
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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
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Nano-mechanical interactions at solid & liquid surfaces Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; Dave Dunstan; George Franks; Geoff Stevens
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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
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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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