Current positions for postdoctoral research fellows and PhD students.
Research fellows
Opportunities upcoming.
PhD students
Sustainable assessment of critical metals for clean energy technologies
As a part of the sustainable development, the world is witnessing a rapid development of clean energy technologies which shifts the attention from fossil fuels to metals. Particularly, the renewable energy technologies (eg, solar, wind, etc), energy storage systems and e-mobility are largely dependent on critical metals which are sensitive to supply risks but also contribute to significant impacts through their life cycle. This project aims to develop a modelling platform to quantitatively analyse the material, resource and waste flows for the metals associated with clean energy technologies. This project will engage relevant industries in the analysis and provide the foundations for identifying key impacts and opportunities for improving the sustainable performance.
Supervisor
Position requirements
An Honours or Masters degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, environmental engineering. Experience in life cycle assessment and material flow analysis will be an advantage.
Contact
Dr Wen Li
wen.li3@unimelb.edu.au
Digitalisation of manufacturing systems and supply chain
Manufacturing industry and its’ supply chain are exposed to a revolution of technological advances in cyber-physical systems, digital twin, industrial internet of things, cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The potential of smart integration of these technologies is to vastly improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing activities and underpin a firm’s competitiveness and sustainability. Acquiring and monitoring sensors and collecting relevant data to derive meaningful analytics and optimal decisions poses multiple engineering challenges from sensor technology, analytic algorithms to data security and ownership, system integration, and policymaking. These challenges are further amplified when integrating to a legacy system or a multiparty supply chain. The project under this research theme will require you to engage with local or international industry partners to develop methods and solutions for the digitalisation of a manufacturing system or supply chain.
Supervisors
Dr Wen Li , Assoc Prof Jo Staines
Position requirements
An Honours or Masters degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronic engineering, electrical engineering, computer science. Experience in descrete event simulation and modelling, industrial internet of things will be an advantage.