Industry PhD scholarships

A Future Food Systems Industrial PhD Scholarship puts you at the heart of a unique transdisciplinary research ecosystem and industry network in which you will be encouraged to apply new science and technology to revolutionising the Australian and global food and nutrition sector.

Mega-trends around customisation, precision nutrition, advanced manufacturing, vertical agriculture, digitisation and circular economy solutions are transforming the sector into a high-tech, STEM-based industry offering a diverse array of skilled employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.

If you are a motivated university graduate wanting to undertake high-impact, high-value research; if you’re keen to create institutional or social change; if you want to maximise your career opportunities, a Future Food Systems Industrial PhD Scholarship will put you on an accelerated path.

Scholars are placed within industry research projects, ensuring strong real-world industry engagement. Scholarships are offered across CRC partner universities and across a wide range of science, social and STEM disciplines.

Typically, successful candidates will be First-class Honours or Masters graduates and will bring a Research Training Program (RTP) award. Candidates working within industry who wish to address topics of relevance to their employers are also encouraged to apply.

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For more information contact

Brian Sindel
Industry PhD Program Lead
Future Food Systems CRC
bsindel@une.edu.au

Positions available

Industry-funded PhD project – Art of grain drying

This industry PhD project will be conducted in partnership with Sanitarium Health Food Company, the maker of iconic Australian brands including Weet-Bix™, Up&Go™ and So Good™, and the Future Food Systems CRC. The project aims to develop a quantitative understanding of parameters influencing the properties of wheat grains during drying, as an important step in the manufacturing process of Weet-Bix.

PhD news

Gareema Pandey: Optimising nutritional content in polytunnel-grown blueberries

As CRC Industry PhD student attached to the ‘Blueberry nutritional optimisation’ project, Gareema Pandey is working with crop scientists and sustainability experts at Western Sydney University and NSW Department of Primary Industries to improve the nutritional profile of blueberries grown undercover.

Mark Cardamis: seeking mobile sensing solutions for remote crop control

Mark Cardamis has graduated from making mini greenhouse prototypes to joining a collaborative university-industry project team as a CRC Industry PhD, exploring mobile sensing systems for remote monitoring of crops in advanced indoor greenhouse systems.

Gehan Abdelghany: exploring uses for native crops from the Nile to Northern Australia

Appointed to the ‘Commercialising native rice project’ early in 2020, CRC PhD student and beneficial indigenous-species expert Gehan Abdelghany is working on the theoretical component of her doctorate from Egypt while she waits for travel bans to lift.

Phil Thomas: Seeking the microbial edge in hydroponic tomatoes

For this IT-pro-turned-UNE-microbiology post-grad, the chance to study the root microbiome of greenhouse-grown tomatoes with Costa Group under the CRC was one too good to refuse.