This scholarship is funded by the ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling, which is established in 2023 with one of the aims is to develop technologies to transform carbon dioxide emissions from our energy and manufacturing sectors into valuable products. The scholarship will support one student to work on the development of novel biomass based adsorbents for CO2 capture. A combined experimental and simulation methods will be applied to understand the roles of the geometrical properties and the surface chemistry on CO2 adsorption in the developed porous carbons, to facilitate the optimized adsorbents development.

• Future Students

• Faculty of Science & Engineering
  • Engineering courses
  • Western Australian School of Mines (WASM)

• Higher Degree by Research

• Australian Citizen
• Australian Permanent Resident
• New Zealand Citizen
• Permanent Humanitarian Visa
• International Student

• Merit Based

This scholarship provides a living stipend of $37,500 p.a. (2025) pro rata indexed, based on full-time studies, for up to a maximum of 3.5 years and Tuition Fees offset support. 

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Any student eligible to study a PhD focused on Chemical Engineering or other relevant fields, e.g. Material Science & Engineering.

Applicants are required to:

• Full-time enrolment
• Show the capacity to carry out independent research and have adequate training
• Have a Master degree or bachelor degree with first class honours, or close to obtaining the degrees (e.g. in the last semester/final stage of the degree).

Future student, please contact us via the EOI form.

Recipients must complete their milestone 1 within 6 month of enrolment and remain enrolled on a full time basis for the duration of the scholarship.

If you have any question, please contact Dr. Chunyan Fan at her Email: Chunyan.fan@curtin.edu.au