Completed MRIWA PhDs
Completed PhDs by MRIWA Scholarship Recipients. MRIWA funds research scholarships for study at a Western Australian university.
Dr Patrick Benetti
MARS Program PhD Scholarship (2025)
Effective Leader Safety Storytelling: its attributes and outcomes
Dr Yamini Kannappan
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2024)
Extraction of Rare Earth Elements (REE) from Sub-Economic Ores and Process Tailings
Dr Emad Al-Hemyari
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2024)
Data Processing and Inversion for Seismic While Drilling and Mining Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Machine Learning
Dr Michael Ajith
MARS Program PhD Scholarship (2024)
Impact of COVID-19 on the leadership of operational leaders in the oil, gas, and mining sector of Australia.
Dr Kudzai Angeline Mchibwa
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women Alumnus
2024 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Direct Methods for Lithium Extraction from Lepidolite and Spodumene Minerals
Dr Polyanna Rowe
2024 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Lithospheric Evolution in the Transition from Plate Margin to Intraplate Basin, Northwestern Australia
Dr Keith Giglia
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2023 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Monitoring and control of hydrocyclones by use of convolutional neural networks and deep reinforcement learning.
Dr Martin Ralph
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2023 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Removal of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) deposited in corrosion scale in mineral processing circuits.
Dr Devika Bhatia
MRIWA Women in Mining PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2023 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Corporate Tax Base Erosion and Profit Shifting of Mining Multinationals
Dr Yihao Fu
MRIWA Directors’ PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2023 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Characterisation of ore and bulk solid systems by use of multivariate image analysis and deep learning neural networks
Dr Zela Ichlas
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2023 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Development of an industrially applicable electrostatic solvent extraction column for process metallurgy
Dr Daniel Goldstein
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2023)
Ore Body Characterisation using Machine Learning and Measure-While-Drilling Data
Dr Harry Watts
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2021 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Feasibility of leaching Rare Earth phosphates with concurrent precipitation of rare earth oxalates
Dr Cameron Adams
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2021 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Investigation of the Relationship between Positive Magnetic Anomalies and Nickel-Sulfide Deposits, Kambalda, Western Australia
Dr Tyler Bikaun
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2020)
Unlocking Knowledge from Technical Texts using Deep Active Learning and Entity Typing
Dr Rashid Geranmayeh Vaneghi
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2020 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Progressive Damage Mechanisms of Rocks Subjected to Cyclic Loading
Dr Eunjoo Choi
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2020 MRIWA PhD Graduate
2019 David Groves prize for Postgraduate Research in Geology
Project
Alkaline magmatism as a probe into the evolution of the lithospheric mantle in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia
Dr Stefano Caruso
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2019 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Geological controls on the fractionation of sulfur isotopes in Archaean mineral systems
Dr Ashley Uren
MRIWA PhD Scholarship Alumnus
2019 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Links between basin evolution, crustal-scale architecture, and mineral systems development
Dr Evelien Martens
MRIWA Directors’ Scholarship Alumnus
2019 MRIWA PhD Graduate
Project
Feasibility of electrokinetic in situ leaching
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