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Designing organic semiconductor interfaces for advanced flexible electronics
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Honours project: Develop a more predictive approach to controlling organic electronic device performance, in particular by exploiting molecular anisotropy to manipulate the structure of organic semiconductor interfaces.
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The Curnamona Cube
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Honours projects: Fly across remote Australia in a helicopter, for one of the world's biggest geophysical science projects.
Molecular diet analysis of bent-winged bats
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Honours project: Explore the diet of bent-winged bats through conservation genetics and forensic biology.
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Reduced dimensionality representations of soft matter
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Honours project: Use methods from statistical mechanics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to develop algorithms to automate the dimensionality reduction process.
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Nutrition & collective movement in the Australian plague locust
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Honours project: Investigate the movement of plague locusts using laboratory and field experiments.
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Quantum Field Theory
Honours projects: Projects can be phenomenological or mathematical in character, or the focus may be on technique.
Complex Systems
Honours projects: Projects focused on complex systems which are are typically comprised of a large number of interconnected components which interact collectively, leading to emergent behaviour, such as self-organisation, which is not apparent from the properties of the underlying components.
Fossils under a new light
![Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-fossil-front-visible.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=rsvzpMcx)
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
It’s space water, but not as we know it
![Full moon. Image: Gregory H. Revera, CC BY-SA 3.0](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-full-moon.jpg?h=bfc5f87a&itok=d7Xyypqw)
Honours projects: Explore laser-induced fluorescence of water and aqueous minerals for space applications.
Understanding pollination processes between bees and flowers
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Honours project: Investigate the molecular basis of extrorse anther outcrossing mechanism in flowering plants.
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