PhD Application Information – Monash

The minimum qualifications for admission to PhD Science candidature are:

  • a bachelor’s degree requiring at least four years of full-time study in a relevant field, and which normally includes a research component in the fourth year, leading to an honours 1 or 2A in a relevant field;
  • a course leading to a level rated by the relevant department, faculty and committee as equivalent to an honours 1 or 2A in a relevant field;
  • a master’s degree that entails work, normally including a significant research component, at least equivalent to an honours degree in a relevant field (a ‘significant research component’ in a master’s degree will vary from discipline to discipline). It is normally expected that a grade of honours 2A has been obtained for the research thesis or project. Where ungraded, examiners’ reports will be taken into account; or
  • have qualifications which in the opinion of the Monash Graduate Research Committee (GRC) are deemed equivalent.

Applicants must also satisfy Monash University’s minimum English language proficiency requirements for admission to this research degree.

The minimum qualifications for admission to PhD Engineering candidature are:

Master of Engineering by research or; Bachelor of Engineering with honours 1 or 2A from Monash University or another recognised tertiary institution judged to be of equivalent standard to an Australian university. Other qualifications can be assessed for equivalence. Applicants must also satisfy Monash University’s minimum English language proficiency requirements for admission to this research degree.

If you qualify for this degree, you can then find a project and/or supervisor. See https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/future-students/apply for more information on applying for a PhD project.

FLEET Research Areas

If you have a specific idea for a research project, you can contact a supervisor directly to negotiate a project with them. See research interests below.

PROF MICHAEL FUHRER

  • Experiments on electronic devices made from novel two-dimensional materials such as graphene, layered transition metal dichalcogenides, topological insulators.
  • Scanning tunnelling microscopy.
  • Surface science

PROF KRIS HELMERSON

  • Ultracold atomic gases
  • Biophysics
  • Biotechnology

A/PROF MEERA PARISH

  • Theory of strongly correlated phenomena in ultracold atomic gases and electron systems
  • Superconductivity and superfluidity
  • Lowdimensional systems
  • Magnetotransport

DR AGUSTIN SCHIFFRIN

  • Low-dimensional organic and metal-organic nanostructures on surfaces
  • Probing electronic, optoelectronic, chemical and magnetic properties of interfaces at the atomic scale
  • Low-temperature scanning probe microscopy
  • Photoelectron and optical absorption spectroscopies
  • Time-resolved studies of ultrafast electron dynamics

A/PROF NIKHIL MEDHEKAR

  • Computational mechanics and materials science, structure, properties and processing of materials at nano- and micro-scale using computer simulations

DR JULIE KAREL

  • Development of new materials and heterostructures for low energy electronic and data storage devices