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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: David Boger; Mike Connor; Ross de Kretser; David Dixon; Rob Eldgridge; George Franks; Tom Healy; Sandra Kentish; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens; Shane Usher
Students: Sam Cook; John-Paul O'Shea; Lindsay Studer; Hemadri Saha; David Verrelli; Rachael Wall
Process sustainability Staff: David Boger; Mike Connor; Ross de Kretser; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens; Jannie van Deventer
Students: Bahador Abedi-Tari; Firdaus Sabturani
Greenhouse gas recovery Staff: Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao; Colin Scholes; Kathryn Smith; Geoff Stevens
Students: Clare Anderson; Julianna Franco; Michael Simioni
Energy sources, storage, utilisation Staff: Mike Connor; William Ducker; Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao

Nano & Bioprocess Engineering

Nanostructured & nanofunctional materials Staff: Frank Caruso; William Ducker; Dave Dunstan; Rob Eldridge; Andrea O'Connor; Sally Gras; Sandra Kentish; Peter Scales; Shuhui Wu
Students: Rory Anderson; Alexandra Angelatos; Alisa Becker; Nikko Chan; Lillian Lee; Christina Cortez; Ranya Simons; Thu-Hang Ta; Heng-Pho Yap.
Tailored biomaterials & emulsions Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; George Franks; Sandra Kentish; Thanh-Hai Nguyen; Andrea O'Connor; Geoff Stevens
Students: Zura AbdulHamid; Sasha Boskovic; Tammy Chau; Emma Prime; Sabina Zahirovic
Nano-separations & filtration technologies Staff: Sally Gras; Sandra Kentish; Andrea O'Connor; Peter Scales; David Shallcross; Geoff Stevens
Student: Gwynneth Rice
Nano-mechanical interactions at solid & liquid surfaces Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; William Ducker; Dave Dunstan; George Franks; Geoff Stevens
Students: Tammy Chau
Nano-diagnostics, nano-toxicology, nano-therapeutics Staff: Frank Caruso; Ray Dagastine; William Ducker; Dave Dunstan; Sally Gras; Andrea O'Connor
Fermentation processes and scale-up Staff: Dave Dunstan; Sally Gras; Neville Pamment
Students: Greg Martin

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: Peter Duxson; George Franks; Andrea O'Connor; John Provis; Geoff Stevens; Jannie van Deventer
Students: Widodo Ratanachaithong; Syet-Li Yong; 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; David Higgins; Kathryn Mumford; Hemadri Saha; Rudolf Spehar
New polymeric structures & materials Staff: Frank Caruso; Kris Coventry; Dave Dunstan; Rob Eldridge; Sandra Kentish; Greg Qiao; Geoff Stevens; Xiao, Tao Mao
Students: Tor-Kit Goh; Sarah Shaw; Tan Jing Fung Tan; James Wiltshire
Rheology of non-Newtonian suspensions & liquids Staff: David Boger; Ross deKretser; Kris Coventry; Malcolm Davidson; Dave Dunstan; George Franks; Peter Scales; Shane Usher
Students: Nikko Chan; Jonathan Foong; Richard Watson
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