RACE for EVs PhD
Policy and infrastructure integration for smart and sustainable electric urban mobility: The case of Brisbane
Supervisors Prof. Tan Yigitcanlar The project This research addresses a key industry challenge: the lack of integrated planning and infrastructure for micromobility services such…
Advancing sustainable grid integration via bidirectional electric vehicle chargers: A pathway to grid efficiency and reduced emissions
Supervisors Prof. Mahdi Jalili Description The Ph.D. project is centred on the development and optimization of bidirectional electric vehicle (EV) chargers, which are essential…
Demand management of V2H and V2G using microgrid and energy storage based EV charging systems
Supervisors Prof Junwei Lu and Dr Feifei Bai (Griffith) Mark Hibbert (Planet Ark Power) The project The successful PhD scholarship applicant will explore the approach of Vehicle-to-Home…
Smart Charging Strategies for EVs in Smart Grids
SUPERVISORS Dr Adel N Toosi (Monash University) Ian McLeod (Enzen) DESCRIPTION The global adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) expanded notably over the last decade, creating opportunities…
Artificial Intelligence for management of electric vehicles and vehicle to grid (V2G) resources optimisation
SUPERVISORS Dr. Jahangir Hossain (UTS) Dr. Bevan Holcombe (Planet Ark Power) DESCRIPTION This project aims to develop and implement intelligent techniques to manage the charging…
RACE for Networks PhD
Coordinated dynamic hosting capacity assessment using artificial intelligence-based techniques
Supervisors A/Prof Jahangir Hossain and Dr Ibrahim Ibrahim (UTS) Bill Tarlinton (Zepben) and Dr Carlos Macana (Essential Energy) The project This PhD project on dynamic hosting capacity…
Designing distributed renewable micro-grids for reliability
SUPERVISORS Dr Hao Wang (Monash University) Dr. Bevan Holcombe (Planet Ark Power) DESCRIPTION The research is focused on recommended design and engineering principles of totally…
RACE for Homes PhD
Warm Sensations: Exploring the mobile material cultures of heating inChinese migrant homes in Australia
Supervisors Prof. Sarah Pink The project Yidan’s doctoral research explores everyday practices in Chinese migrants’ homes in Victoria related to heat and warmth, revealing…
Multi-objective optimisation for existing houses retrofit targeting nearly zero energy: framework and application in Australia
Supervisors Dr Nicola Willand The project Residential buildings account for 8.6% of total energy consumption, 24% of electricity use, and over 10% of carbon…
Innovative tariffs and demand response potential for residential and industrial customers
SUPERVISORS Dr Alexandr Akimov and Dr Shyama Ratnasiri (Griffith University) Dr Alexandra Sidorenko (Ausgrid) DESCRIPTION Load flexibility will address new challenges of the evolving power system in…
RACE for Business PhD
Privacy-preserving IoT data communication gateway integration from multiple platforms (NSW DIEF project)
Supervisors Prof. Wen Hu Dr Stephen White Description This project will enable privacy-preserving cloud-based digital infrastructure to streamline real-time management of data from buildings…
Reliable Representation, Information Extraction, of Time Series Data in Multiple Platforms (NSW DIEF project)
SUPERVISORS Dr Imran Razzak Dr Stephen White DESCRIPTION The NSW Digital Infrastructure for Energy Flexibility (DIEF) project is a state-wide project dedicated to uncovering…
Maximising renewable energy for water corporations through machine learning, peer-to-peer trading and demand management
Supervisors Dr Rebecca Yang and Dr Kazi Hasan (RMIT) Ruben Muller (Sydney Water) The project Water corporations have extensive electricity demands, which lead to high energy bills and…
Optimising the total cost of owning and operating centralised chilled water plants
Supervisors Dr Ben Cheng and Dr Toh Yen Pang (RMIT) Richard Phillips and Iain Stewart (Exergenics) The project Traditional chiller equipment operation optimisation focuses on short term gains….
Fast-track to Net Zero Carbon buildings
Supervisors Dr Mike Roberts, UNSW Craig Roussac, Buildings Alive DESCRIPTION Like major economies and institutions around the world, owners and operators of large commercial, residential…
Data innovation for zero carbon buildings
SUPERVISORS Hongda Tian (UTS) Hao Huang (Buildings Alive) Craig Roussac (Buildings Alive) DESCRIPTION According to the IEA, for the international community to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement,…
Optimal planning and operational strategy for biogas power generation system design in wastewater plants
SUPERVISORS Li Li (UTS) Greg Appleby (Sydney Water) DESCRIPTION Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are an indispensable element of a municipal system. Higher energy demands of WWTPs…
RACE for Change PhD
DER and Grid Integration
Supervisors Prof. Peta Ashworth Dr Dean Economou The project Large-scale deployment of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is critical to the success of Net Zero…
Pathways to Net Zero Precincts – Embedding Research to Accelerate Adoption
SUPERVISORS Prof Petra Tschakert Dr. Margaret Gollagher Dr. Thor Kerr DESCRIPTION To examine how collaborative governance processes and practices can enable effective technology transfer…
Urban Footprint Model for Australian Precincts
Supervisors Prof Peter Newman Dusan Mills, Hawaiian Group The project Cities are facilitators of economic growth through agglomeration of economies from diversity of resources…
Pathways to Net Zero Precincts – Policy and Practice
Supervisors Prof Peter Newman Dr. Alessandro Sanches Pereira The project Urgent action is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so that the world has…
Increasing DER hosting capacity while reducing costs and enhancing energy system resilience
Supervisors Prof Peter Newman and Dr Charlie Hargroves (Curtin) Richard Romanowski (Planet Ark Power) The project The successful PhD scholarship applicant will investigate how new customer transaction…
Portable green hydrogen solutions for households
Supervisors Prof. Atiq Zaman and Dr Jessica Breadsell (Curtin University) Nick Wills-Johnson (Australian Gas Infrastructure Group) Description Households are taking control of their energy supply through solar…
Developing an Australian Trust Index
SUPERVISORS Prof Rebekah Russell-Bennett (University of Canberra) Matt Newey (Essential Energy) DESCRIPTION This PhD Topic will develop an Australian Energy Trust Index that will be…
Off-grid Indigenous community microgrids
SUPERVISORS Dr Cara Beal (Griffith University) David Edwards (Horizon Power) and Craig Julian (Western Power) DESCRIPTION Community-driven approaches to manage the technical, social, economic, cultural…
Customer first start-ups and the energy transition
SUPERVISORS Dr Samantha Sharpe (UTS) John Laird (Solar Analytics) DESCRIPTION A successful clean energy transition requires customers to be central in creating and using clean…