Research projects
The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
— indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit Study for PhD program and application information.
How does habitat-network structure drive ecology in riverine landscapes?
Team: Angus Webb
Improving the use of existing evidence in decision making for environmental management
Team: Angus Webb
Effect of partial drainage on plate anchor capacity in sand
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Incorporating climate change projections in Australia’s flood guidance
Team: Conrad Wasko
Modelling biocementation of recycled sand and demolition wastes for pavements
Team: Guillermo Narsilio
Scale effects in geotechnical physical modelling in sand
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Underwater acoustics: prediction of underwater noise caused by ocean interface processes and anthropogenic activities
Team: Alexander Babanin
A spatial network approach to maintaining river basin ecosystem values and managing hydrological threats
Team: Angus Webb, Avril Horne
Deep learning of boundary representation from point clouds
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Developing a novel foundation to secure floating renewable energy turbines
Team: Yinghui Tian
Early detection of internal erosion in dams/levees: bridging between micro and macro scale behaviour
Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani
High-definition maps of road environments
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Simulation-based engineering research of hydraulic fractures in naturally fractured rocks
Team: Stephan Matthai
Simulation-based engineering research of proppant transport in hydraulic fractures
Team: Stephan Matthai
Soil-structure interaction framework for plate anchors in sand under cyclic loading
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Sustained and cyclic load behaviour of an integrated anchor and chain system
Team: Yinghui Tian
Vehicle positioning using lidar
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Visual positioning in indoor environments
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Computational turbulent fluid flow
Team: Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins
Bridge scour monitoring and forecast: implementation of an AI early warning system
Team: Negin Yousefpour
Evaluation of residual strength of rock based on acoustic emission data
Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Samintha Perera
When will catchments recover from drought?
Team: Murray Peel
Advanced parking information and management
Team: Stephan Winter, Kourosh Khoshelham
Development of autonomous robotic platforms for indoor and outdoor mapping
Team: Martin Tomko, Kourosh Khoshelham
Connected transport system
Team: Majid Sarvi
Crowd dynamics
Team: Majid Sarvi
Energy geo-structures: numerical modelling and field testing
Team: Guillermo Narsilio, Associate Professor Guillermo Narsilio, Dr Nikolas Makasis
Harnessing renewable energy from low-carbon geothermal pavements
Team: Guillermo Narsilio, Nikolas Makasis
Near surface geophysics: Evaluation of soil properties through electromagnetic and mechanical waves
Team: Guillermo Narsilio, Associate Professor Guillermo Narsilio, Dr Amir Arangi
Time Dependent Subsurface Mechanical Behaviour Due to CO2 Injection
Team: Hossein Agheshlui, Stephan Matthai
Heterogeneities induced into a porous medium by reactive flow as investigated on the pore-scale
Team: Irina Sin, Stephan Matthai (University of Melbourne), Allan Leal/ (ETH Zurich)
Ensemble flood inundation forecasting using emulators of hydraulic models
Team: Q J Wang, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan
Ensemble flood, short-term and seasonal river flow forecasting
Team: Q J Wang, Dr Tony Zhao, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan
Security, risks and infrastructure protection
Team: Nelson Lam, Priyan Mendis, Helen Goldsworthy, Lihai Zhang, Tuan Ngo, Cuong Kien Nguyen, Jack Yao, Elisa Lumantarna, Raymond Lumantarna