Research Projects
Research will be conducted in a team-based approach. Research in The Academy will be truly multi-disciplinary which will allow discoveries to be made at the interface of disciplines.
The Academy’s intention is to organise research into classes of problems that seeks to address a key research-theme or sector-goal.
Eight key research themes have been identified:
- Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Clean Energy
- Water
- Nanotechnology
- Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Design
| Research Themes | Project Number | Monash University Supervisor | IIT-Bombay Supervisor | Project Title | Project Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy | IMURA0073 | Ranjith Pathegama | Deepankar Choudhury | To study the effects of mining induced subsidence, changes in deformation of coal and interburden rock strata and water flow | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0133 | Paul Webley Sankar Bhattacharya | Anuradda Ganesh | Gasification Characteristics of High Ash Lignites for Power Generation or Co-production of Chemicals | Candidate Required |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0435 | Nikhil Medhekar Laure Bourgeois | Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti | Atomistic Simulations of Nanoscale Precipitate Interfaces inStructural Materials | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0337 | Andrew Hoadley Sankar Bhattacharya Lian Zhang Also includes an external supervisor from JSW | Somnath Basu Also includes an external supervisor from JSW | Investigations on valorisation of top gas in blast furnace iron making | Candidate Required |
| Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy | IMURA0336 | Ranjith Pathegama Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | T N Singh Hemant Kumar Singh Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Geological effects on the propagation of ground vibrations produced by blasting | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy,Nano Technology | IMURA0353 | Christopher McNeil | Dinesh Kabra | Influence of Packing of Organic Semiconductor on Photoinduced Charge Generation and Transport Properties | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0372 | David Turner | Ramaswamy Murugavel | Functional Coordination Networks and Cages for Molecular Applications | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0734 | Boon Mian Teo | Sumit Saxena | Development of Stimuli Responsive Materials for Energy Applications | Candidate Required |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture ,Infrastructure Engineering and Clean Energy | IMURA0482 | Professor Y Ahmet Sekerciogulu, Also includes an external supervisor from CISCO | Professor D Manjunath | Deterministic Wireless Mesh Systems | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0405 | Akshat Thaksale Also includes an external supervisor from SABIC | Sanjay Mahajani | Studies on catalyst deactivation during methane conversions | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0447 | Prof. Wei Shen | Prof. Dipti Gupta | Printed energy storage devices | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0710 | Ariel Leibman Monash Co Supervisor: Rajab Khalilpour | Trupti Mishra IITB Co Supervisor: Anupama Kowli | Issues facing large scale deployment of solar energy in India | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy,Rare Earths | IMURA0369 | Professor Glen .B.Deacon Co. Supervisor: Prof Peter .C. Junk , Dr D.R.Turner | Main Supervisor: Professor Harkesh B. Singh | The Chemistry of Lanthanum/Nickel Alloy | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0615 | Tanja Junkers | Anil Kumar | Design synthesis and application of novel hole transport layers | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0632 | David W. Lupton | Debabrata Maiti | Directing group assisted alkane synthesis leading to liquid fuel formation | Candidate Required |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0640 | Nikhil Medhekar | Amartya Mukhopadhyay Co-supervisor: M. Aslam | Role of layered 2D layered materials (graphene, MoS2) and shape memory alloy as buffer interlayers for improving cyclic stability of electrode materials for Li and Na-ion batteries | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0642 | Akshat Tanksale Co-supervisor: Xiwang Zhang | Aswani Yella | Photoelectrochemical water splitting using monolithic photoanode/high photovoltage perovskite solar cell tandem devices | Candidate Required |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy | IMURA0643 | Ranjith PG | V. Vishal Co Supervisor: T. N. Singh | Numerical and experimental investigations of complex fracturing in shale | Candidate Allotted |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0650 | Nikhil Medhekar | Ajay Singh Panwar | Simulation of interfacial properties of gas hydrates for <span style=”color: blue;”>clean energy applications | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0782 | Philip Wai Hong Chan | Prasenjit Ghosh | Gold Complexes of N-heterocyclic Carbene Ligands Derived from Bicyclic and Tricyclic Rings having Restricted Rotation Along the Bond Containing Chiral Auxiliary in Asymmetric Catalysis | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0668 | Raman Singh | Sumit Saxena | Development of graphene-based composite materials for supercapacitors | Candidate Required |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0683 | Ranjith PG | V. Vishal | CO2 enhanced geothermal systems: THMC investigation | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0695 | David Lupton | Debabrata Maiti | Synthesis of biologically relevant heterocycles via Aliphatic C-H Activation | Candidate Required |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0713 | Mark Thompson | Rajneesh Bhardwaj | CFD analysis of vortex induced vibration of a cylinder | Candidate Required |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0718 | Laurence Brassart | Aparna Singh | Microstructure-property relationships of conductive polymers and substrates for organic solar cells Experimental characterisation and micromechanics-based modelling. | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0747 | Douglas MacFarlane Monash Co-supervisor: Mega Kar | Sagar Mitra | Nano-MgMn2O4 spinel cathode and ionic liquid compatibility study for Magnesium ion battery development | Candidate Required |
| dvanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0757 | Laurence Brassart | Amartya Mukhopadhyay | Understanding the integrity/stability of ´alloying reaction´ based anode materials for Na-ion batteries via in-situ investigations and mathematical modelling | Candidate Required |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0758 | Ranjith PG | V. Vishal IITB Co-supervisor: T. N. Singh | Investigation of induced seismicity in CO2 enhanced oil recovery | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0774 | Reza Razzaghi | Zakir Hussain Rather IITB Co-supervisor: Suryanarayana Doolla | Secure and Stable Grid Integration of large-scale Solar PV power | Candidate Required |
| Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy | HSS0771 | Robert Thomson | Priya Jadhav | India’s Renewable Energy Policy | Candidate Required |
| Humanities and Social Sciences, Clean Energy | HSS0770 | Robert Thomson Monash Co-supervisor: Dharmalingam Arunachalam | Priya Jadhav | The value, implementation and uptake of distributed generation solutions in light of poor quality grid supply in low usage rural areas: the impact of technical, political and social factors | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0783 | Joel Hooper | Prasenjit Ghosh | Synthesis and Utility of the Nickel Complexes of N/O-functionalized N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Cross-Coupling Reactions and in Enantioselective Cyclopropanation Reactions | Candidate Required |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0494 | Sankar Bhattacharya | Sanjay Mahajani | Gasification characteristics of and chemicals production from low-rank solid fuels | Candidate Allotted Kareemulla Dudekula |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0490 | Qiaoliang Bao | Sagar Mitra | Advanced Electrode Materials by 2D Layered Materials Exfoliation | Candidate Allotted ManasRanjan Panda |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy | IMURA0385 | Andrew Hoadley | Karen Hapgood | Agent-based modeling of multi-scale systems for sustainability assessment. | Candidate Allotted Neeraj Hanumante |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0509 | Antonio Patti | Amit Arora | Integrated Biorefinery Concept from Pomegranate Processing Waste | Candidate Allotted Sachin Talekar |
| Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy, Water | IMURA0350 | Mohan Yellishetty also includes an external supervisor from JSW also | A.K.Dikshit | Building Artificial Soils from Industrial Waste Products for Mine Rehabilitation | Candidate Allotted Shashibhushan Biliangadi |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0630 | Nikhil Medhekar | Saurabh Lodha | Experimental and modeling studies of metal/2D layered semiconductor interfaces | Candidate Allotted Abin Varghese |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0399 | Nikhil Medhekar Also includes Co-Supervisor: Laure Bourgeois | Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti | Nanostructure Stabilization in Energy Materials | Candidate Allotted Alhad Parashtekar |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0612 | Douglas R. MacFarlane | Sagar Mitra | A highly efficient polysulfide-metal oxide composite electrode as polar host for lithium-sulphur batteries | Candidate Allotted Arnab Ghosh |
| Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0221(A) | Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Techno-economic evaluations of Biomass gasification with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production | Candidate Allotted Pratham Arora |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0667 | Rico Tabor | Shobha Shukla | Patterning of photoresponsive smart materials | Candidate Allotted Ashish Sharma |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0057 | Ranjith Pathegama | D. Chandrasekharam | A numerical study of creation of optimal fracture networks for heat extraction from engineered geothermal reservoirs | Candidate Allotted Singh Banambar |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0609 | Behrooz Bahrani | Zakir Hussain Rather Co-Supervisor: Suryanarayana Doolla | Intelligent operation and control of microgrid at ultra-high penetration of renewable energy | Candidate Allotted Chitaranjan Phurailatpam |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0216 | Wenlong Cheng Also includes an external supervisor | Atul Srivastava | Experimental investigation of the process of nanoparticle preparation by Laser ablation | Candidate Allotted Kaushik Choudhury |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0717 | Ranjith PG | V. Vishal | Permeability and strength of methane-hydrate bearing reservoir rocks | Candidate Allotted David Stephen Lall |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0639 | Sunita Chauhan | Arpita Sinha Co-supervisor:Leena Vachhani | Multi-robot coordination and motion planning for automatic cleaning of solar photovoltaic panels | Candidate Allotted Elias Eliot |
| Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0305 | John Beardall Madhu Chetty Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Pramod Wangikar Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Enhanced and desirable lipid synthesis in algae for efficient Biofuel production | Candidate Allotted Akhila George |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0257 | Samuel Adeloju | Prakash C Ghosh | Development of microbial fuel cells with improved performance | Candidate Allotted Jayesh Sonawane |
| Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy | IMURA0074 | Ranjith Pathegama Also includes an external supervisor from BHPB | D.N. Singh Also includes an external supervisor from BHPB | Investigation of permeability of fractured,steep and deep rock slopes with high groundwater pressures | Student completed Kunal Kumar Singh |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0620 | Jie Zhang | Arindam Sarkar | Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on transition metal oxides | Candidate Allotted Madhurima Barman |
| Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0391 | Doug Mac Farlane | Sagar Mitra | Electrolyte development based on ionic liquids for eco-friendly | Candidate Allotted MANOHAR CHINNAREDDY VENKATESWARLU |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0135 | Bradley Ladewig | Manoj Neergat | Electrocatalysts for low temperature fuel cells | Candidate Allotted Nalajala Naresh |
| Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research and Clean Energy | IMURA0300 | John Beardall Sankar Bhattacharyya Also includes an external supervisor from JSW | Pramod Wangikar | Investigations on CO2 sequestration with algae under dry and hot ambient conditions | Candidate Allotted Prachi Varshney |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture, Clean Energy | IMURA0646 | Akshat Tanksale | S. Srinivas Co-supervisor: Prakash C. Ghosh, Manaswita Bose | Development of flexible reformer-based fuel cell technology for small-scale power generation | Candidate Allotted Prashant Gupta |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0301 | Sankar Bhattacharya Also includes an external supervisor from JSW | A K Suresh | Investigations on CCP-enhanced carbon dioxide uptake in aqueous media during flue gas scrubbing | Candidate Allotted Raghavendra Ragipani |
| Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0221(B) | Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Anuradda Ganesh Sanjay Mahajani Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Techno-economic evaluations of coal and Biomass pyrolysis with carbon capture for syngas feedstock to ammonia production | Candidate Allotted Ishan Sharma |
| Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0453 | Main Supervisor: Dr. Antonio Patti Co- Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Macfarlane | Main Supervisor: Amit Arora | Biobased chemicals production from macroalgae | Candidate Allotted Shivali Banerjee |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0145 | Brian Falzon | Shashikanth Suryanarayana | Small Wind Turbine Technology | Candidate Allotted Jasvipul Singh Chawla |
| Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0387 | Wei Shen | Dipti Gupta | Inkjet printed organic electronic devices | Candidate Allotted Sivakumar Ganesan |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0159 | Malin Premaratne | Subhabrata Dhar R Vijaya – External Supervisor from IIT-Kanpur | Photonic crystal antenna design and fabrication | Student completed Sreenivas Reddy |
| Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0666 | Antonio Patti | Amit Arora | High Quality Protein Extraction From Plant Based Sources | Candidate Allotted Subramoni Hariharan |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0286 | Wenlong Cheng | Anuradda Ganesh Prakash C Ghosh | Investigation of Thermal Properties of Nanofluids | Candidate Allotted Sushrut Bhanushali |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0295 | Mainak Majumder Tam Sridhar Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Arup Bhattacharyya Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Exploring the Surfactant-like Properties of Graphene/ Graphene-Oxide for Thermal Engineering of Emulsions | Candidate Alloted Tanesh Dinesh Gamot |
| Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy | IMURA0222 | Andrew Hoadley Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Anuradda Ganesh Santanu Bhandopadhyay Also includes an external supervisor from ORICA | Techno-economic evaluations of solar (or other advanced technologies) for splitting water for hydrogen and oxygen feedstock to ammonia and nitric acid production | Candidate Allotted Sonal Thengane |
| Infrastructure Engineering,Clean Energy,Water | IMURA0348 | Mohan Yellishetty | T.N.Singh | Fly ash utilisation in haul road construction in open cast coal mines: A geo environmental and hydrogeological investigation | Candidate Allotted Tushar Gupta |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology | IMURA0696 | Christopher McNeil | Dinesh Kabra | Micro-structural and Micro Spectroscopic Investigation of Bulk-heterojunciton Organic Solar Cells | Candidate Allotted Urvashi Bothra |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Infrastructure Engineering Clean Energy | IMURA0098 | Ranjith Pathegama | T.N Singh | Numerical Simulation of CO2 sequestration and recovery of CH4 from coal seams | Student completed Vikram Vishal |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0136 | Bradley Ladewig | Manoj Neergat | Novel polymer composite membranes for the direct methanol fuel cell | Candidate Allotted Wasim Feroze |
| Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0304 | Dieter Bulach Ross Coppel Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Sanjeeva Srivastava Santosh Noronha Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Generating Live gene expression tools for use in algal molecular manipulation | Candidate Allotted Anbarasu Karthikaichamy |
| Clean Energy Nanotechnology | IMURA0669 | Jie Zhang | Sumit Saxena | Evaluation of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposites for applications in electrodes for supercapacitors | Candidate Alloted Charu Lakshmi |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology | IMURA0744 | Antonio Patti Monash Co-supervisor: Kellie Tuck | Amit Arora | Bioactives and Natural Dyes From Food and Agricultural Waste Sources | Candidate Alloted Kusumika Sinha Roy |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,Clean Energy | IMURA0401 | Huanting Wang | A.K Suresh IITB Co-Supervisor: Sanjay Mahajani and Santosh J Gharpure | Development of NEW heterogeneous catalyst for SELECTIVE production OF PROPANEDIOL from GLYCEROL | Candidate Allotted Mohammad Khan |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture,clean energy | IMURA0403 | Alan Chafee Also includes an external supervisor from SABIC | A.K.Suresh Co-supervisor : Debabrata Maiti | Develop a microkinetic model framework for heterogeneously catalyzed reaction Direct Aromatization of Methane | Candidate Allotted Ponsubbiah Soundrapandian Nadar |
| Clean Energy, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology | IMURA0745 | Warren Batchelor Monash Co-supervisor: Antonio Patti | Amit Arora | Cellulose nanofibers recovery from fruits waste | Candidate Alloted Poornima VB |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0749 | Douglas MacFarlane Monash Co-supervisor: Maria Forsyth | Sagar Mitra | Solid-State Lithium Sulfur Battery operating at low temperature based on polymer-solid ion conductor composite electrolyte and sulfur cathode | Candidate Alloted Preetham Permude |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0367 | David W. Lupton | Debabrata Maiti | Metal Mediated Synthesis of Nitroalkanes, Nitroolefins and Nitroaromatics | Candidate Alloted Dutta Uttam |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0414 | David W. Lupton | Debabrata Maiti | Synthesis of Bioactive Heterocycles Through Multiple C-H Bond Activation | Candidate Alloted Sandeep Y. Pimparkar |
| Clean Energy | IMURA0493 | G B Deacon, Co-Supervisor : David Turner | M.S. Balakrishna | Thorium chemistry – a new Frontier | Candidate Alloted Shalini R |
| Infrastructure Engineering, Clean Energy | IMURA0751 | Ariel Liebman Monash Co-supervisor: Roger Dargaville | Rangan Banerjee | Modelling Energy Transitions in India and Australia | Candidate Alloted SUBHADIP BHATTACHARYA |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research. | IMURA0364 | Mohan Yellishetty Shankar Bhattacharya also includes an external supervisor from JSW also | Yogendra Shastri | Robust design and operation of thermochemical processing of municipal solid waste | Candidate Allotted Vibhuti Chhabra |
| Clean Energy and Nanotechnology | IMURA0475 | Professor Doug MacFarlane Co Supervisor: Maria Forsyth | Main Supervisor: Professor Sagar Mitra | Room Temperature Sodium Sulphur Battery for Large Scale Storage | Candidate Allotted Ajit Kumar |
| Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0468(A) | Xiwang Zhang Co Supervisor: Gita Pendharkar | Siddhartha Prakash Duttagupta, Co Supervisor : Sankara Sarma V Tatiparti, Arindam Sarkar | Nano-confined multi-component metal hydride systems for hydrogen buffer for stable fuel cell operation | Candidate Allotted Arif Ibrahim |
| Clean Energy Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0303 | John Beardall Madhu Chetty Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Sanjeeva Srivastava Santosh Noronha Also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | Strategies to control grazer growth in algal cultures | Candidate Allotted Pranali |
| Advanced computational engineering, simulation and manufacture,Clean Energy,Water and Nanotechnology | IMURA0468 | Main Supervisor: Associate Professor Xiwang Zhang ,Co- Supervisor: Dr Gita Pendharkar | Main Supervisor: Siddhartha Prakash Duttagupta, Co- Supervisor: Arindam Sarkar,Sanjay Mahajani | Artifical Leaf for Hydrogen Generation from Waste water | Candidate Allotted Uzma Bano Memon |
| Clean Energy,Nano Technology | IMURA0354 | Christopher McNeil | Dinesh Kabra | Organic Semiconductor Based Photovoltaic Devices | Candidate Alloted Naresh Chandrasekaran |
| Advanced Computational Engineering, Simulation and Manufacture Clean Energy | IMURA0200 | Ranjith Pathegama | T.N Singh | Numerical and experimental study of rocks under very high temperature conditions: Underground coal gasification. | Candidate Alloted Nikhil Sirdesai |
| Clean Energy,Nonotechnology | IMURA0376 | Akshat Tanksale also includes an external supervisor from JSW also | Yogendra Shastri | Catalytic Conversion of Algal Biomass into Tar Free Synthesis Gas by Reaction Flash Volatilisation | Candidate Alloted Pratik Gholkar |
| Clean Energy,Nanotechnology | IMURA0379 | Douglas R. MacFarlane | Sagar Mitra also includes an external supervisor from Reliance | High Energy Density Lithium – Ionic Liquids Batteries | Candidate Alloted Sowmiya Thievaprakasam |
| Clean Energy,Biotechnology and Stem Cell Research | IMURA0381 | Doug McFarlane Co supervisor Tam Sridhar | Santosh Noronha One Supervisor from Reliance Industries Ltd | Solvent assisted cellulose depolymerization | Candidate Alloted Vasudha Kotia |