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Research programs

The Faculty of Science provides an environment within which a variety of programs interact, developing new and innovative collaborations at the interface between disciplines. Our knowledge of nature is expanding at an exponential rate and with this comes opportunities in complex areas requiring multi-disciplinary research teams. The Faculty's research has been structured so as to maintain critical mass within disciplines, while bringing together the expertise from different research programs to tackle a range of complex research problems. The Faculty has a specific focus of four major themes which are: energy, the environment, food production and health .

The Faculty has a broad range of research programs grouped within six clusters which provide and maintain state of the art technology equipment and facilities; importantly, these facilities are shared across the Faculty and are available to all programs giving researchers and research students access to the extensive range of equipment and technologies within the Faculty of Science.

Applied Chemistry
This cluster brings together expertise in medicinal and forensic chemistry; novel materials and nanotechnology and polymers, to address research problems concerning health, food production and the environment.

Program Leader: Professor Ray Frost
Phone: +61 7 3138 2407

Applied Physics
This cluster contains experts in applied optics and nanotechnology; environmental physics and medical physics who contribute to research projects concerning health, energy and the environment.

Program Leader: Professor Christian Langton
Phone: c/- +61 7 3138 2152 (Faculty of Science office)

Biomedical Science – Cells and Tissues
This cluster is focussed on health research, specifically in the areas of hormone dependant cancer; infectious diseases and tissue repair and regeneration.

Program Leader: Professor Peter Timms
Phone: +61 7 3138 6199

Healthy and Sustainable Environments
This cluster brings together experts on air quality; earth, water and climate systems and ecosystems to address issues that concern both food production and the environment.

Program Leader: Professor Peter Grace
Phone: +61 7 3138 9283

Plant, Molecular and Industrial Biotechnology
This program is working in the areas of bio-processing; food production and biosecurity; tropical crops and bio-commodities, with projects that concern energy and food production, health and the environment.

Associate Professor Tony Clarke
Phone: +61 7 3138 5023

Statistics, Applicable Mathematics & Operations Research
This program provides expertise in operations research; modelling in health, industry, environment and finance; and statistical and computational methods to support research activities across the Faculty in health, energy, food and environmental research.

Program Leader: Professor Sean McElwain
Phone: +61 7 3138 5185