Postgraduate opportunities

 

The ACA offers a range of PhD and Masters research opportunities to postgraduate students. Research topics available depend on current research being conducted by the ACA's research associates:

Palaeontology, Geology, Chemistry
Microbial life in ancient high temperature ecosystems
Earth's oldest lifeforms
Major asteroid/comet impacts with Earth
The evolution of microscopic lifeforms

Planetary exploration
Early life on Earth and the search for life on Mars

Microbiology
Microbial diversity in modern high temperature ecosystems, e.g. hot springs in South Australia and New Zealand

Astronomy
Understanding the origin of chirality in biological molecules
Searching for extrasolar planets by means of polarimetry
Formation of planetary systems

 

Scholarships
For details of scholarships for Australian and international students: http://www.research.mq.edu.au/students. Also check with Simon George for scholarships in geoscience.

 

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Last Updated: Dec 7, 2006