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...