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During a recent visit to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), UQ-IITD Academy of Research joint PhD candidate Vallari Chourasia had the opportunity to present her research to Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. “It was an amazing experience for me! It was such a great honour to present my PhD work to Mr Albanese,” […]

The Academy held the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition in November. The 3MT is an academic competition that challenges PhD students to describe their research within three minutes to a general audience. 3MT celebrates the discoveries made by research students and encourages their skill in communicating the importance of research to the broader community. […]

Satakshi Gupta, UQIDAR PhD student, shares the experience from her journey at UQ. Satakshi is working on her PhD project ‘Unravelling the charge generation pathways in organic and hybrid solar cells’.  Even after a year into the pandemic, it seemed like no end was in sight. After living through multiple lockdowns, my life was stuck in […]

The UQ–IITD Academy of Research has hit a major milestone, celebrating the enrolment of its 100th PhD student. A delegation from UQ, including Chancellor Peter N Varghese, AO, and President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AO, travelled to India in August to mark the occasion.  “Students from the UQ–IITD partnership are undertaking exciting research in […]

Joint-PhD scholars of The University of Queensland (UQ) and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Academy of Research – UQIDAR – have received one of India’s most prestigious scholarships to become Prime Minister’s Research Fellows. The fellowship aims to improve the quality of research in higher educational institutions in India using the brightest new minds […]

The UQIDAR Industry Connect Workshop on Biotechnology & Bioinformatics was held on 9th September 2021 at IIT Delhi (IITD). This was the fourth UQIDAR Industry Connect workshop, after successful workshops with Google and Microsoft Research and an Industry Connect workshop on Energy. The hybrid workshop was chaired by Professor Avril Robertson and Professor Mikael Boden […]

Joint University of Queensland and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi research institute, the UQ-IIT Delhi Academy of Research (UQIDAR), partners with ReNew Power to improve weather forecasting models for the renewable energy sector. UQIDAR has proudly partnered with ReNew Power as part of its industry partnership initiative. The program aims to connect PhD students with […]

The first University of Queensland-IIT Delhi Academy of Research (UQIDAR) Industry Connect Workshop on Energy, sponsored by SPARC, was held on Thursday, 8 April 2021. Energy is a critical issue for the energy industry, researchers and academics. Increasing energy demand poses enormous challenges, which are compounded by climate change. Cutting edge developments in energy research, […]

Clinical psychologist and PhD student, Indupriya Babu, has been recognised for her research into risk-taking, and why men are more likely to experience road traffic accidents. Based in Delhi, Ms Babu is part of The University of Queensland’s joint Academy of Research with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), known as UQIDAR.  Her paper, which […]

Indian PhD researcher Mr Sudeep Banad will spend 2020 at The University of Queensland (UQ) to analyse the changing flood patterns and their impact on river morphology and explore new ways to predict flood paths. The UQ and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) student will also work to assess the river patterns in India […]