Postgraduate students
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Postgraduate students
Mr. Michael Scalzo
Mr. Yuneng Tang
Research Interests:
Catalysts regeneration, oxy-fuel combustion.
Mr. Nauman Ahmad
Mr. Waqar Ahmad
Dr. Tanvir Alam
Research Interests:
Biomass & Bioenergy, Waste to Energy, Thermochemical Conversion, Ash Slagging, Waste Management
Mr. Alfred Appiagyei
Mrs. Zinia Ara
Research Interests:
Interested in the field of Nano Cellulose, 3D Bioprinting, Electrospinning, Natural and synthetic polymers, Protective textiles, Fibre morphology and characterisation. Also interested in different natural fibre composites.
Mr. Mohammad Arfin
Mrs. Lois Asiedua-Ahenkorah
Mr. Saeed Askari
Mr. Hamza Asmat
Research Interests:
Heterogeneous Catalysis, Reaction Engineering, (Carbon Capture, Conversion and Utilization), Materials characterization, Advanced Porous Materials.
Mr. Eddie Attenborough
Research Interests:
My research interests include food engineering, brewing and fermentation, biotechnology, sustainable processing, circular economy and team management. I am dedicated to advancing food, bioprocess and polymer science and technology to address global challenges.
Ms. Sara Barricella
Mr. Muhammad Bilal
Research Interests:
Muhammad's research interest lies in the areas of environmental remediations, water purifications, membrane separations, and electrochemistry for fuel cell applications.
Ms. Parisa Biniaz
Research Interests:
Renewable Energies, Sustainability
Ms. Saheli Biswas
Research Interests:
solid oxide electrolysis, catalysis, hydrogen economy, renewable energy
Ms. Miriam Blaine
Dr. Stefan Buergmayr
Research Interests:
Circular Processes: Fibre Recycling | Water Reclamation | Clean Energy
Mr. Mohammad Chowdhury
Research Interests:
Currently working on metal-air batteries. My research interest and expertise mainly focused on: Electrochemistry, Organic electrolyte, Bifunctional Catalyst, Electrolyte, Numerical Modeling, Batteries & Fuel Cell
Mr. Jie-Ning Chuang
Mr. Lavaraj Devkota
Research Interests:
Food Waste Utilization, Novel Food Processing, Legumes Processing, Functional Food
Mr. Sijan Devkota
Ms. Wahyu Dewi
Mr. Fan Du
Mr. Christian Dzuvor
Research Interests:
Bioengineering, Protein Therapeutics, Vaccines, Microbiology, Immunology, Antimicrobials, Nanotechnology, Protein/Nanobody/Antibody engineering
Ms. Samira Ebrahimian
Research Interests:
Heterogeneous catalysis, CO₂ hydrogenation, Methanol and DME, Clean Energy, Advanced characterization, Reaction Mechanisms, In situ DRIFTS and In situ Synchrotron IR Spectroscopy
Mr. Nathan Eden
Research Interests:
Metal-Organic Frameworks, advanced porous materials, lithium separation
Mr. Umer Elmahadi Elfaki
Research Interests:
- Ammonia and hydrogen SOFC fuel cell - Electrochemistry - heterogeneous catalysis - Multi-scale Modeling ( DFT & Microkinetic simulation)
Ms. Parisa Eslami
Mr. Dawood Fazal
Mr. Bibesh Gauli
Research Interests:
Interested in working in green chemistry and material development projects. I have experience in catalyst synthesis, characterizations, and reactor testing to convert biomass and CO2 to fuels and chemicals. I have worked primarily with zeolites and MOFs in my research career.
Mr. Mohsen Ghasemian
Research Interests:
Direct Air Capture, 3D Printing Technology, Advanced Nanomaterials, CO2 Conversion, Photocatalysis, Biofuel Production
Ms. Rabeeh Golmohammadzadeh
Research Interests:
E-waste recycling, Resources recovery, Waste management, Zero waste processes, Lithium-ion batteries, Optimization, Separation process.
Mr. Jinxing Gu
Ms. Lucrezia Guarneri
Research Interests:
Lyotropic liquid crystalline nanoparticles as carriers for Alzheimer's disease drugs and neuroprotective natural compounds.
Mr. Qianying Guo
Mr. Ashwin Hatwar
Mrs. Jun He
Mr. Kaiqiang He
Ms. Anrie Helberg
Mr. Edward Henderson
Supervisor: Dr Simon Corrie
Research Interests:
Edward is a PhD graduate in Chemical Engineering at Monash University in Australia, having completed a Bachelor of Engineering (materials engineering) with Honors. His interests include bio-nano interactions, biomedical device development and rapid diagnostic assays. He also lectures across various engineering departments on a variety of topics.
Mr. Nguyen Khai Ho
Research Interests:
Yeast cell culture heterogeneity, systems biology, bio-engineering.
Mr. Swan Htet
Research Interests:
My research focuses on developing a digital twin of high-moisture extrusion for plant-based proteins using SPH, DEM, LBM, ML and HPC. I investigate material transformations—from powder to melt—inside twin-screw extruders, aiming to optimize texture, process design, and validation through physics-based simulation and experimental techniques.
Ms. Ting Hu
Ms. Xiaoyi Hu
Mr. Fayuan Huang
Miss Fen Huang
Mr. Syed Wajahat Hussain
Research Interests:
Stress Corrosion Cracking
Mr. Yasuaki Inoue
Miss Priyanka Jeevanandan
Miss Bin Jia
Miss Wei Jiang
Ms. Haritha Joseph
Mr. Muhammad Kamran
Mrs. Chani Karandagaspitiya
Mr. Callum Kimpton
Mr. Moni Philip Jacob Kizhakedathil
Research Interests:
Moni's PhD work focuses on engineering enzymes for sensor applications focusing on the detection of herbicides. His prior experience includes Production, kinetics and characterization of enzymes and it's application in food industries and computational modelling and dynamics of proteins.
Mr. Gaurav Kumar
Ms. Kiran Kumari
Mr. Chandan Kundu
Research Interests:
Broadly interested in conversion and utilization of lignocellulosic biomass (agriculture, wood or waste materials etc.) to produce Biofuel (Bioethanol or Biodiesel). As well as, my researches generally focus on extraction or recovery of value added product during or after thermochemical procedures to reduce the final product cost. Research field: P
Mr. Rajan Lakshman
Research Interests:
CO2 Utilisation, Heterogenous Catalysis, Metal Organic Frameworks, Catalyst Synthesis and Characterisation
Mr. Dang Le
Research Interests:
Polyphenols, protein-ligand binding
Mr. Jia Wei Leng
Miss Evangeline Leong
Industry Doctorate Candidate (PhD), Woodside Monash Energy Partnership
Mr. Changhui Li
Dr. Haoliang Li
Research Interests:
Interfacial phenomenon in bio-fluids coupled with mechanics
Ms. Qiuning Li
Mr. Renjie Li
Mr. Kian Lim
Mr. Kai Liu
Research Interests:
Water harvesting based on hydrophilic or hydrophobic materials
Ms. Siyuan Liu
Miss Xueqing Liu
Mr. Yan Lu
Research Interests:
Yan Lu is a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. Wenlong Cheng at Monash University, Australia. He received his BE in 2016 from the Nanjing Institute of Technology and MS in 2019 from the Nanjing Tech University. His main research interests include the synthesis of multifunctional nanomaterial.
Ms. Letian Lyu
Miss Quanxia Lyu
Mr. Hamidreza Mahdavi
Miss Sanjita Malasetty
Mr. Declan McNamara
Research Interests:
Lithium Sulfur Batteries, Surface modification and functionalization, Porous Aromatic Frameworks, Carbon Nanoparticles, Conductive Elastomeric Composites, Microscopy
Mr. Hao Miao
Mr. Paul Michalski
Miss Nasim Mohseni
Mrs. Maryam Mounesan
Research Interests:
Photopolymerizations Additive Manufacturing
Miss Asifa Nadeem
Ms. Fairooz Nanzeeba
Research Interests:
Liquid metals, LM oxides-thin-films, LM catalysts
Mrs. Naghmeh Nasiri
Research Interests:
biopolymer, bioplastics, nanocellulose material, cellulose nanocrystal, packaging
Miss Carol Nhan
Mr. John Nikko Salvilla
Mr. Idris Okeowo
Research Interests:
Membrane synthesis, Resource recovery, Ion transport and separation, Fuel cell, and Gas separation
Mr. Mohammad Mahdi Parivazh
Mrs. Mahdieh Pazirofteh
Research Interests:
Circular Economy | Zero waste | Recycling | Valorisation | Process Engineering | Sustainable Engineering | Resource Recovery
Mr. Lokukankanange Peiris
Ms. Dilini Perera
Ms. Yu Qi
Mr. Marcelo Daniel Rademacher Flandez
Research Interests:
Development, Validation and Application of CFD approach to Hydrocyclone Design.
Mrs. Romalya Ranasinghe
Research Interests:
Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU), Carbon Capture Materials Science, Carbon Capture Pilot Projects and Up-scaling
Ms. Hajar Samadian Moghaddam
Research Interests:
Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Cancer Research, Targeted Drug Delivery, Protein Assays
Mr. Daniel Rojas Sanchez
Research Interests:
Carbon capture and utilisation, life-cycle assessment, electrocatalytic reduction of CO2, process optimisation, socio-economic and environmental modelling, energy conversion and storage, sustainable development ,
Mr. Rahul Sharma
Mr. Siddhartha Shrestha
Research Interests:
Particle technology, Particle-fluid systems, Fluidization, CFD-DEM, Modeling.
Mr. Shashank Shukla
Mr. Lex Simons
Mr. Shashwat Srivastava
Research Interests:
Carbon capture and utilization.
Ms. Salma Sultana Tunny
Research Interests:
Photoacoustic imaging, Image processing, Aptamer sensor, Spectroscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biosensors design for biomedical applications.
Mr. Gabriel Tai Huynh
Research Interests:
Biosensors, Implantable Devices, Nanomaterials.
Mr. Jian Tang
Mr. Zhi Quan TEH
Mr. Bennet Sam Thomas
Research Interests:
Rare earth element studies, waste valorisation, reaction kinetic modelling, process modelling and optimization, metal separation.
Miss Samin Tokasi
Research Interests:
Biomedical Applications Organ-on-chips Microbiome Engineering Wound Dressings
Mr. Liam Turner
Mr. Hafeez Ullah
Mr. Vasanth Vasanth Prasad Mohan
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Energy: Exploring the potential of nanomaterials in waste-to-energy conversion. Industrial Waste Analysis: Analyzing and optimizing industrial waste streams for responsible resource management. Composites: Developing innovative composite materials to repurpose industrial waste effectively.
Miss Fanmengjing Wang
Miss Jingwei Wang
Mr. Kaixuan Wang
Mr. Ren Wang
Mr. Ruoxin Wang
Miss Vicky Wang
Research Interests:
Bottom-up Synthetic Biology, Cell-free Expression, Compartmentalisation
Mr. Zhuyuan Wang
Ms. Xiong Weiyan
Mr. Yun Xia
Research Interests:
Graphene Oxide-Polymer Hybrid Membranes for Water Processing.
Ms. Weiyan Xiong
Ms. Jiahuan Xu
Mr. Jindi Yang
Miss Liuyimei Yang
Mr. Runze Yang
Research Interests:
My research focuses on physics-informed AI surrogate models for multiphase flow and particle dynamics, particularly coupling CFD-DEM simulations with deep learning methods, to improve computational efficiency while preserving physical consistency.
Miss Sasha Yang
Mr. Qing Ye
Ms. Jialiang Yin
Miss Zijun Yong
Mr. Alireza Zarei
Research Interests:
Catalysis, Biofuels, Biomass, Pyrolysis, Renewable energy, Waste treatment
Ms. Feifei Zhang
Mr. Heng Zhang
Mr. Shen Zhang
Ms. Xuan Zhang
Mr. Boya Zhao
Miss Yueni Zhong
Miss Qiaoqiao Zhou
Mr. Yi Zou