Potential Supervisors
Areas of research expertise of potential supervisors
Please contact the supervisor/s if you are interested in any of the following projects and research themes:
| Supervisors | Project titles |
| Prof William S. Price Prof. Annemarie Hennessy |
MRI studies on placenta: Imaging the cause of preeclampsia |
| Dr Amit Arora | Health promotion, life-course epidemiology, socio-economic inequality in health, prevention and management of chronic diseases and health literacy |
| Prof Janice Aldrich-Wright | Developing new flourophores; Sequence selective compounds; Synthesising tetradentates for coordination to platinum; The design, synthesis and characterisation of anticancer drugs; and The design, synthesis and characterisation of platinum(IV) prodrugs |
| Dr Trevor Bailey | Gadolinium complexes as novel contrast agents in MRI |
| Dr Marion Gaborieau | Characterizing chitosan for nerve repair; and Hyperbranched polymers for drug delivery |
| Dr Antonio Lauto | Fabrication of laser activated bio-adhesive scaffolds for sutureless tissue repair |
| Prof William S Price Dr Tim Stait-Gardner |
Development of fast NMR diffusion sequences; Diffusion tensor imaging; Modelling diffusion in complex structures; NMR simulation using symbolic algebra |
| Prof William S Price Dr Allan Torresin conjunction with Dr Marina Ali (Westmead Hospital) |
Interactions between lipids and membrane proteins |
| Prof William S Price Dr Gang Zheng |
Multiple solvent suppression; NMR of ion dynamics in solution (including ionic liquids and salt-polymer electrolytes); Self-assembly in alcohol solutions; and Suppression of solvent signals in highly dilute solutions |
| Dr Allan Torres Prof William S Price |
Biophysical NMR studies of protein folding and denaturation; Development of new NMR methods for diffusion studies; Diffusion of peptides in different solution environments; and NMR structure of membrane-associated polypeptides |
| Dr Gang Zheng Prof William S Price |
Decode nature's way of detoxification---NMR studies on dissolved organic matter in Australian aquatic systems; Development of new NMR-based SEC-like analysis; New NMR diffusion experiments for probing the interactions between anti-cancer drugs and macromolecules; and Quantitative composition-flavour relationships: the first step to a flavour tasting machine |
| Prof Jens Coorssen | Isolation and identification of cholesterol-binding proteins |
| Prof Vaughan Macefield | Movement-induced modulation of sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects |
| Dr David A Mahns | Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): Contributions from the peripheral and central nervous systems; and Is our sense of limb position (Proprioception) affected by ongoing pain |
| Dr Michelle Moffitt | Genes and enzymes responsible for natural product biosynthesis in cyanobacteria |
| A/Prof Gerald Muench | Pro-energetic drugs for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease |
| Dr Simon Myers | Endoplasmic reticulum stress and mitochondrial changes in distal axonal neurodegenerative disease |
| Dr Michael O'Connor | Ocular regenerative medicine: optimizing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to lens epithelial cells |
| Dr Carl Parsons | Neuroplasticity and functional recovery in an animal model |
| Dr Sabine C Piller | The role of protein arginine methylation |
| Dr Colin Stack Dr Michelle Moffitt Dr Shane Griffin |
Identification of new antimalarial compounds from cyanobacteria |
| Effect of a worksite based yoga program on heart rate variability: A randomised controlled trial | |
| Dr Bobby Cheema Dr Paul Marshall |
Effect of a worksite based yoga program on functional fitness: A randomised controlled trial |
| Dr Bobby Cheema | Effect of a worksite-based yoga program on psychological health status: A randomised controlled trial |
| Dr Shona Papalia | Lower limb motor control, strength and foot posture in adolescent populations; Dance and its effect on fitness and body composition; and Landing force profiles during single leg hopping – effect of lower limb injury |
| Dr Peter Clothier | Validation of a 2D kinematic method for predicting leg stiffness during low, moderate and high intensity running velocities; and Do graded compression garments affect running leg stiffness and lower limb kinematics during moderately paced distance running? |
| Dr Paul Marshall Cherie Wells |
Pilates exercise for chronic low back pain |
| Dr Paul Marshall | Gluteus medius muscle recruitment during resistance exercises |
| Dr Paul Marshall Dr Dan Robbins |
High volume resistance exercise for the biceps muscle |
| Amitabh Gupta Dr Peter Clothier |
An evaluation of compression garments and their effect on vertical leg stiffness during hopping |
| Dr Jason Siegler | Influence of prior exercise on the blood buffering potential after sodium bicarbonate ingestion; and Influence of sodium bicarbonate on skeletal muscle recruitment during resistance training exercise |
| Dr Kylie Steel(UWS) Roger Adams (USYD) |
Can football (or other invasion games) player's accurately identify team-mates vs non-team-mates from brief (<400msec) visual displays of multiple players in a video-clip?; and Can 'self-as-model' video-based training improve deceptive (side-step/agility) movements in team-sports participants |
| Dr Kylie Steel(UWS) Kenneth Graham (NSWIS) |
Do compression garments provide additional proprioceptive feedback for improving hitting/ striking skills such as a golf swing? |
| Dr Andrew Bennie | Coaching effectiveness; Coaching 4 roles; and Implications for evaluating effective coaching |
| Prof Gregory Kolt | The Influence of Teachers' Needs Supportive Behaviours on PDHPE Students' Physical Activity During Class |
| Prof Gregory Kolt | Exploring factors that influence physical activity behaviours in adults |
| Dr Stefania Penkala Dr Julia Bowman |
The effect of "green exercise" on anxiety disorders: A systematic review |
| Dr Ros Bye | Therapists' perspectives on the role of occupational therapy with adolescents and their families |
| Dr Catherine Cook | Safe to go home? Understanding occupational therapy discharge assessment of older adults in acute care |
| Dr Julia Bowman Dr Stefania Penkala |
Translation of evidence-based practice knowledge and skills from education to clinical settings: A systematic review |
| Rachelle Coe | Paediatric occupational therapy services in the South West Sydney area: A needs analysis |
| Nerida Klupp | Systematic review to evaluate the psychometric validity of questionnaires used to measure student attitudes, knowledge and skills in research and evidence-based practice |
| Dr Margaret Skropeta | Exploring the how, when, where and what of older Muslim adults interacting within the aged care sector of services in Australia; What do participants think of the UCA-Sydney Regional Intergenerational Playgroup Project?; and Workplace learning: It's place in academic learning |
| Dr Rebecca Olson | Improving health protection communication with carers of cancer patients |
| A/Prof Dennis Chang Dr Ben Colagiuri |
Evaluation of complementary medicine for improving neurocognition and cardiovascular function |
| A/Prof Kelvin Chan A/Prof Caroline Smith Dr Xiaoshu Zhu |
Assessing the feasibility of the local adoption of the quality of life instrument ChQOL |
| A/Prof Kelvin Chan Dr Tina Naumovski |
Bioavailability of gypenosides from gynostemma pentaphyllum; and Cytotoxicity of gypenosides from gynostemma pentaphyllum |
| A/Prof Caroline Smith | Practice patterns and motivations of acupuncturists working in the area of women's health |
| Dr Xiaoshu Zhu Dr Yachun Zhai |
Does acupuncture have a role in the treatment of chronic prostatitis? |
| Dr Xiaoshu Zhu Dr Junguan Liu |
Traditional Chinese medicine teaching clinic: Demographic, clinical characteristics and validating patient consultation and evaluation sheet |
| Dr Xiaoshu Zhu A/Prof Dennis Chang Dr Stefania Penkala |
Psychometric testing of a standardised pattern diagnostic instrument in evaluating coronary heart disease in traditional Chinese medicine practice. |
| Dr Henry Liang | Acupuncture for quality of life in post-chemotherapy cancer patients: A pilot randomised controlled trial |
| Dr Ben Colagiuri A/Prof Carolin Smith |
Patient-practitioner communication in complementary medicine. |
| Dr Ben Colagiuri Cherie Wells |
The egoscue method for improving lower back pain: Exercise classification and protocol development |
| Dr Cheang Khoo | Comparison of Extraction Procedures in the Preparation of Herbal Medicines |
| Tad Bak | Solid state electrochemistry; solid state chemistry; gas-solid reactivity; energy materials |
| Prof Andrew Beattie | Entomology; oogenesis in blowflies; behaviour of arthropods to mineral oils; biological control of plant-feeding arthropods; integrated pest management |
| Jo-Anne Chuck | Bioactive compounds fromStreptomycesspp; regulation of biosynthetic processes using image analysis, molecular biology, protein chemistry and natural products chemistry; use of Streptomyces spp. in bioreactors for long term drug delivery |
| A/Prof Gary Dennis | Polymer design, synthesis and characterisation; surface properties of polymers as very thin films; polymer nanocomposites; stationary phase design and characterisation for chromatography; surface chemistry – stabilization and destabilization of suspensions, silane passivation of metals |
| Dr Chris Derry | Health risk analysis applied to water chemistry and microbiology; field monitoring, lab analysis, and integration of results into risk assessment matrices; health risk management and communication; health risk analysis relating to food safety, high voltage power distributions and environmental noise; monitoring strategies for surface removal of microorganisms in the reduction of hospital cross infections. |
| Dr Samsul Huda | Climate-related risk analysis - opportunity management and decision making; climatic-agronomic-environmental modelling and simulation; plant biosecurity and environmental risk analysis and modelling; climate, food, environment and health; adaptation to climate change impacts |
| Mark Jones | Molecular and cell biology, investigating disease resistance, cell signalling, gene activation and gene therapy; confocal characterisation of live cell molecular events using fluorescent correlation spectroscopy techniques (FLIM, RICS, N&B) |
| Kamali Kannangara | Synthesis of organic and organometallic compounds and use of spectroscopic techniques for the molecular structure elucidation; functionalisation of carbon nanotubes; catalysts for hydrocracking of bio-fuels; solid state NMR techniques to understand carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils; changes in chemical environments of carbon and nitrogen in plant tissues grown in elevated carbon dioxide characterisation of materials of forensic interest |
| A/Prof Kant Kantharajah | Plant biotechnology; plant growth and development; alternative crop production |
| Dr Sundar Koyyalamudi | Isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal herbs and their structure determination using high resolution solution NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry |
| Peter Leverett | Inorganic chemistry; X-ray crystallography; coordination chemistry; solid-state analytical methods; chemical mineralogy |
| Adriyan Milev | Synthesis, characterisation and application of nanocarbons such as nanographite and carbon nanotubes; kinetics and mechanism of chiral carbon nanotube nucleation and growth |
| Tom Millar | Studies of the eye and the tear film; projects will involve tissue culture, protein structure and function, lipid structure and function, immunohistochemistry and rheology |
| Poonam Mudgil | Tear film components and their interactions; use of polymers to increase ocular comfort in 'dry-eye' |
| Robert Mulley | Dietary overlap with sympatric native and exotic carnivores; movement patterns and home range analysis of dingoes; population analysis of free ranging deer; disease monitoring in wildlife species; reproduction and performance with domestic production animals such as deer, pigs and cattle; monitoring dusts and bioaerosols in agricultural and industrial settings |
| Loo-Teck Ng | Controlled-release of drugs using hydrogels and intelligent membranes; nano-encapsulation of food additives for controlled-release; ameliorating salinity in soil using hydrogels encapsulated with water-soluble calcium salts |
| Janusz Nowotny | Solid state electrochemistry; solid state chemistry; gas-solid reactivity; energy materials |
| Maria Nowotny | Photocatalysis; solid state chemistry; charge transfer |
| Julie Old | Native mammal conservation; native mammal immunology |
| Qaiyum Parvez | Agronomy; crop production; farming system research and extension; systems thinking and praxis development; capacity building, communication and rural development; curriculum development and transfer of technology |
| Michael Phillips | Interactions of probiotic bacteria with the immune system, natural gut bacteria and pathogens; survival and delivery of probiotic bacteria including the use of capsule technology; the role of biofilms in the persistence and transmission of bacterial pathogens; ecology and mechanisms of gastrointestinal pathogenesis; the use of rapid methods to detect pathogens in food |
| Narsimha Reddy | Isolation of bioactive compounds from medicinal herbs and their structure determination using high resolution solution NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry |
| Sue Reed | Monitoring dusts and bioaerosols in agricultural and industrial settings; establishment of safe working environments in industries where inhalation of dusts and bioaerosols is common; silica dust in Queensland mines and quarries; impact of long term inhalation of dusts on health of workers |
| Adrian Renshaw | General biology and ecology; plant biology and ecology; forensic biology |
| Markus Riegler | Entomology in agriculture, forestry, medical, veterinary and forensic Sciences; insect molecular biology; microbiology; molecular ecology; population genetics; ecological genetics; evolutionary biology |
| Dr Anya Salih | Structure-function studies of genes and proteins in live cells by fluorescence and confocal imaging; green fluorescent protein technology; fluorescence analyses of cellular dynamics of proteins and genes; characterisation of cellular oxidative stress responses; photobiology; responses of marine organisms to climate change stress |
| Andrew Shalliker | Separations in liquid chromatography, with emphasis on theory, fundamentals and separations involving very complex samples; two-dimensional HPLC; flow heterogeneity in fluidised porous beds; complex natural products such as wine, coffee and herbal medicines; heterogeneity of monolithic solid rod HPLC columns; new stationary phase technology |
| Leigh Sheppard | Solid state chemistry; mass transport; photoelectrochemistry |
| Ricky Spencer | Conservation and ecology of native animals; the management and control of vertebrate pests; current research projects include life history evolution of freshwater turtles in response to fox predation, the impact of Indian Mynas on native birds and small mammals, and new methods to save the dingo |
| A/Prof Robert Spooner-Hart | Applied entomology; biological control and integrated pest management in horticultural crops; botanical pesticides and chemical ecology of insects, native bees and pollination |
| Roy Tasker | Chemical education; interactive multimedia resources to communicate ideas in science; learning chemistry more deeply by visualising the molecular world; developing resources for juries to better understand the significance of scientific evidence |
| Tony Webb | Social science of resource sustainability, particularly issues of community engagement in planning and community capacity building (social capital) arising from people's involvement in ecological science issues |
| Pete Williams | Inorganic chemistry; mineral chemistry; mineral processing; geochemistry; environmental chemistry; X-ray crystallography; coordination chemistry; measurement of non-classical weak bonding effects |
| Paul Wormell | Computational chemistry and spectroscopy of organic molecules; including compounds of biological, medicinal or forensic interest; electronic and vibrational spectroscopy of naturally occurring heterocycles |
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