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CIET PhD students

We are excited to support HDR students examining key facets of the energy transition!

Supporting early career researchers and their work is a crucial to fostering the innovation needed for transition. Read more about our HDR students, their work and PhD opportunities as they become available.

Current PhD students

Amrita Koirala

Amrita Koirala

Ensuring a social license to operate for the use of RNA based bio pesticides for agriculture
Amrita’s PhD explores the social license and consumer acceptance considerations of Bioclay (an new RNAI bio pesticice) being developed by the ARC Sustainable Crop Protection Hub. The Hub is funding this PhD, and Amrita is being supervised by Prof. Peta Ashworth (Director) and A/ Prof. Raquel Tardin-Coelho (Theme lead: First Nations communities)

Desire Runganga

Desire Runganga

Perceived criticality of minerals in the Global North and South
Desire’s PhD is supervised by Prof. Peta Ashworth (Theme lead: Social licence and technology in society) and Dr Bishal Bharadwaj (Theme lead: Energy and development) and funded by the Trailblazer Universities program.

Nehemia Gurusinga

Nehemia Gurusinga

Stakeholder perceptions and support for hydrogen and ammonia energy projects
Nehemia’s PhD is supervised by Prof. Peta Ashworth (Theme lead: Social licence and technology in society), A/ Prof. Kathy Witt and Dr Bishal Bharadwaj (Theme lead: Energy and development), and is funded by the ARC Training Centre for Global Hydrogen Economy (GlobH2E).