PhD Scholarship Opportunity - Processing intelligence for green metals using in situ X-ray characterisation and machine learning

The Opportunity

Expressions of interest are sought from outstanding candidates for PhD study in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering.

Project title: Processing intelligence for green metals using in situ X-ray characterisation and machine learning.

We are seeking a PhD candidate to develop advanced in situ X-ray characterisation and machine-learning-enabled processing intelligence for green metals transformation. The project will focus on capturing time-resolved structural and chemical changes during minerals-to-metals processing, including aqueous, electrochemical, thermal, and hybrid pathways relevant to extraction, refining, recycling, phase transformation, impurity evolution, and microstructure development.

The candidate will use advanced in situ X-ray methods, including diffraction, scattering, spectroscopy, imaging, and complementary multimodal characterisation, to generat...