Ian Wark Research Institute
ARC Special Research Centre
ARC Special Research Centre
Robert Acres, BSc(Hons) Flinders PhD UniSA
Advanced synchrotron studies of homogeneous and heterogeneous metal sulfide
surface chemistry
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof David Beattie
Audrey Beaussart, MEng European School of Materials Science and Engineering
Nancy, France PhD UniSA
Polymer adsorption on hydrophobic minerals
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof David Beattie
Martin Cole, BSc(Hons) Flinders PhD UniSA
Switchable coatings for protein-material interaction
Principal Supervisor: Prof Hans Griesser
Ivan Djordjevic, BSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Polyoctaneddiol citrates/sebacate elastomers: A new class of tissue
engineering material
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Sunil Kumar
Mariya Foundas, BProcessEng(Hons) Moscow State Institute of Food, Russia
PhD UniSA
Stabilisation of boehmite dispersions with novel phosphonate-carboxylate
copoplymers
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Fornasiero
Carlos Gontijo, Eng de Ninas Universidade Federal do Minas Gerais, Brazil
PhD UniSA
Coarse particle flotation
Principal Supervisor: Prof John Ralston
Aravind Govindaraj Kennan, BTech Central Electrochemical Research
Institute, India PhD UniSA
Role of molecular architecture on the properties of multifunctional hybrid
thin films
Principal Supervisor: Prof Namita Roy Choudhury
Karyn Jarvis, BAppSc BSc(Hons) PhD UniSA
Optimising the interfacial properties of porous silicon for effective
control of molecular and biomolecular interactions
Principal Supervisor: Prof Clive Prestidge
Djoko Julianto, BEng Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia MEng UniSA
Quantifying the relative contributions of grinding media and mineral sources
to total oxidised iron in base metal sulphide flotation system
Principal Supervisor: Prof Stephen Grano
Sundar Mayavan, BTech Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India, MSc
Anna, India PhD UniSA
The role of self-assembled polymers in controlling the structure and
activity of electrocatalytic nanoparticles
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Naba Dutta
Solomon Muganda, BSc(Hons) MPhil University of Zimbabwe PhD UniSA
Using flotation response to infer an operational contact angle of particles
Principal Supervisor: Prof Stephen Grano
Mani Paneru, MTech IIT Bombay, India PhD UniSA
Electrowetting of ionic liquids in solid/liquid/liquid systems
Principal Supervisor: Prof John Ralston
Srinivas Parimi, BSc Andhra, India MSc Griffith PhD UniSA
Dendrimer interactions with lipid bilayers: Mechanistic and kinetic studies
Principal Supervisor: Prof Clive Prestidge
Luke Parkinson, BSc Adelaide BSc(Hons) Queensland PhD UniSA
Induction time and bubble-particle interactions
Principal Supervisor: Prof John Ralston
Iliana Sedeva, MSc Sofia, Bulgaria GradDipEd Adelaide PhD UhiSA
Probing the adsorption of polymers on hydrophobic surfaces using the quartz
crystal microbalance and contact angle measurements
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof David Beattie
Sin Ying Tan, BEng(Hons) Curtin PhD UniSA
Brownian Diffusion of ultrafine particles to an air-water interface
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Fornasiero
Ngoc Hoa (Diana) Tran, BChemEng(Hons) Adelaide PhD UniSA
Selective separation of fine particles at liquid-vapour interfaces
Principal Supervisor: Prof John Ralston
Frank Wang, BMed Guangxi College of TC Medicine, PR China MSc Waikato,
New Zealand PhD UniSA
Porous silicon as a delivery system for poorly soluble drugs
Principal Supervisor: Prof Clive Prestidge
Wenbo Wang, BEng MEng Northeastern, PR China PhD UniSA
The flotation of coarse composite particles
Principal Supervisor: A/Prof Daniel Fornasiero
Xiangfei Ye, BEng Tianjin, PR China MSc Nanyang, Singapore/Technical University
of Munich, Germany PhD UniSA
Optimising regrinding chemistry
Principal Supervisor: Prof Stephen Grano
Lin Zhou, BChemEng Daqing Petroleum Institute, PR China MSc Tianjin
University, PR China PhD UniSA
Molybdenite flotation
Principal Supervisor: Prof Bill Skinner
