Current Scholarship Recipients
MRIWA funds research scholarships for study at a Western Australian university


Bishenka Mahaulpatha
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2022)
Feasibility of effective metal recovery from tailings material via electrokinetic in-situ leaching.

Martin Ralph
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2022)
Removal of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) deposited in corrosion scale in mineral processing circuits.


Alexandra Halliday
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2021)
Integrating field monitoring and numerical modelling to better quantify the stability of tailings storage facilities

Liz Wall
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2021)
A new deal between mining companies and communities to deliver sustained positive development outcomes for Indigenous or land-connected communities

Tyler Bikaun
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2020)
Conversational agents and dialogue management systems in highly domain-specific environments with scarce data

Alicja Polewacz
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2020)
Processes at the interface between fluids and lithium minerals

John Grigson
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2020)
Genesis of the giant rare-metal pegmatite deposits of the northern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Mineral systems analysis and terrane to deposit-scale exploration criteria

Polyanna Moro
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2019)
Geodynamics and basin evolution of the Paterson Orogen from Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic based on 3D geophysical modelling and data inversion

Gabriel Gonzalez
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2019)
Improving predictability of failure and the condition assessment of critical assets

Xingjie Chen
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2019)
Investigating the underground support provided by shotcrete using tailings and waste rock

Keith Giglia
MRIWA Directors’ PhD Scholarship (2018)
Monitoring and control of hydrocyclones by use of convolutional neural networks and deep reinforcement learning

Kudzai Angeline Mchibwa
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2018)
Innovative processes for leach liquor purification and production of battery grade LiOH from Li mineral resources

Yihao Fu
MRIWA Directors’ PhD Scholarship (2017)
Characterisation of ore and bulk solid systems by use of multivariate by image analysis and deep learning neural networks

Zela Ichlas
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2017)
Development of an industrially applicable electrostatic solvent extraction column for process metallurgy

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