PhD & MPhil at ANU

PhD & MPhil

PhD student unearths Holy Grail of paleontology

Ilya Bobrovskiy has revealed the earliest known animal, and received the highest of accolades.

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Breakin' it down with plastic-degrading enzymes

PhD students Vanessa Vongsouthi and Matthew Spence are exploring an innovative solution to our plastic waste problem.

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Dawn of a new era for PhD grad - now featuring twice as many suns

You’ve watched Star Wars, right?” That’s how Rajika Kuruwita begins when explaining her PhD thesis. 

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During the PhD program you will work with increased independence, under the direction of a supervisory panel of experts in the field. Your research will make an original and important contribution to human knowledge, research and development.

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During the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) you will work with increased independence, under the direction of a supervisory panel of experts in the field. Your research will make an original and important contribution to human knowledge, research and development.

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We have a wide range of potential research topics. They range from short-term PhB projects to year-long honours and graduate projects to three-year PhD projects.

This repository shows a sample of science, health and medicine research at ANU. Visit our research school websites for more detail.