CCFS postgraduates

CCFS postgraduate students include those already in progress in 2011 with projects relevant to CCFS Research Themes, as well as those who commenced in 2012-2020. 26 papers with CCFS postgraduates as authors were published in high-profile international journals in 2020 including Nature Sientific Reports, American Mineralogist, Chemical Geology, JAAS, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Precambrian Research, Lithos, Tectonics, Journal of Metamorphic Geology and Journal of Geophysical Research. 15 presentations were also given at international conferences (see Appendix 4 ).

Anthony running a Mica-Pyroxenite melting experiment with the Yellow piston-cylinder as part of his DAAD funded cotutelle with the Institut für Mineralogie,Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Photo: Paul Pangritzfor).

2020 HIGHLIGHTS

Eunjoo Choi was awarded David Groves Prize for Postgraduate Research in Geology, UWA, in July 2020.

Anthony Lanati was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service) Cotutelle Scholarship (pictured).

Hamed Gamal El Dien received the Curtin Chancellor’s commendation.

Completed

Cameron Adams (PhD): Integrating petrophysical, lithogeochemical, and mineralogical data to understand the physical properties of altered mafic and ultramafic rocks: implications for geophysical exploration (UWA 2020)

Sonia Armandola (PhD): Detrital accessory phase geochemistry and geochronology of Capricorn basins and implications for the evolution of the Capricorn Orogen (WA) (CU 2018)

Bataa Baatar (MSc): Fertility of the Lock Lilly Belt for porphyry Cu-Au mineralisation - constraints from whole-rock chemistry and zircon studies (UWA 2017)

David Barbosa da Silva (PhD): The microchemical and microstructural evolution of fluid and melt transfer in deep crustal shear zones (MQ 2019)

Erica Barlow (PhD): Microfossils of the Paleoproterozoic Turee Creek Group: Biological evolution resulting from atmospheric change? (UNSW 2019)

Raphael Baumgartner (PhD): Ore deposits of the future; magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide mineral systems on Mars (UWA 2017)

Rachel Bezard (PhD): Impact of crustal assimilation on the Lesser Antilles arc lava geochemistry (MQ 2014)

Katarina Bjorkman (PhD): 4D lithospheric evolution and controls on mineral system distribution: Insights from Marmion Terrane, Western Superior Province, Canada (UWA, 2017)

Richard Blake (MPhil): Determining recent organic contamination in ancient rocks (UNSW 2019)

Eleanore Blereau (PhD): Petrochronology of the ultrahigh- temperature (UHT) metamorphic Rogland-Vest Agder Sector, southwestern Norway (CU 2017)

Raul Brens Jr (PhD): Constraints on petrogenesis and elemental recycling of the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc System and the associated Lau and North Fiji Basins (MQ 2018)

Lauren Burley (MSc): The geology of the Fisher East komatiite- hosted nickel sulfide deposit (UWA 2015)

Stefano Caruso (PhD): Geological controls on the fractionation of multiple sulfur isotopes in Archean mineral systems; SIRF & MRIWA Postgraduate Scholarship (UWA 2019)

Montgarri Castillo-Oliver (PhD): Compositional evolution of indicator minerals: Application to diamond exploration (MQ 2016)

Julian Chard (PhD): Petrochronology of accessory minerals related to metamorphism and fluid-flow events in the Albany-Fraser Orogen and Eucla basement, Western Australia (CU 2020)

Mathieu Chassé (PhD): Mechanisms of enrichment of rare earth elements in supergene conditions (MQ, 2018)

Eunjoo Choi (PhD): Alkaline magmatism as a probe into the lithospheric mantle (UWA 2020)

David Child (PhD): Characterisation of actinide particles in the environment for nuclear safeguards using mass spectrometric techniques (MQ 2016)

David Clark (PhD): Integrated magnetics: Contributions to improved processing and interpretation of magnetic gradient tensor data, new methods for source location and estimation of magnetisation, and predictive magnetic exploration models (MQ 2014)

Bruno Colas (PhD): Structural constraints on the crystallisation of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate (MQ 2017)

Jane Collins (PhD): The structural evolution and mineralisation history of the Flying Fox komatiite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposit, Forrestania Greenstone Belt, Western Australia (UWA 2013)

Stephen Craven (PhD): The evolution of the Wongwibinda Metamorphic Complex, New England Orogen, NSW, Australia (MQ 2016)

Daria Cyprych (PhD): Deformation behaviour of polymineralic rocks: implications for rheology and seismic properties of the middle to lower crust (MQ 2017)

Cara Danis (PhD): Geothermal state of the Sydney-Gunnedah- Bowen Basin system (MQ 2012)

Gregory Dering (PhD): Dynamics and emplacement mechanisms of mafic magma networks with implications for intrusion-hosted magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits; APA, IPRS (UWA 2019)

Andrei de Souza (MSc): Petrogenesis and isotopic constraints on the emplacement of discordant ultramafic pipes in the eastern Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa (UWA 2019)

Tara Djokic (MPhil): Assessing the link between Earth’s earliest convincing evidence of life and hydrothermal fluids: The c. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation of the North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia (UNSW 2015)

Raphael Doutre (PhD): Spatial periodicity, self-organisation and controls on large ore deposits (UWA 2018)

Timmons Erickson (PhD): Deformation microstructures in zircon and monazite: implications for shock, tectonic and geochronological studies (CU 2017)

Christopher Firth (PhD): Elucidating magmatic drivers and eruptive behaviours of persistently active volcanoes (MQ 2016)

Fiona Foley (PhD): Magmatic consequences of subduction initiation and its role in continental crust formation (MQ 2013)

Michael Förster (PhD): Experimental melting of rocks of ultramafic and sedimentary origin in accretionary orogens (MQ 2019)

Denis Fougerouse (PhD): 4D geometry and genesis of the Obuasi gold deposit, Mali (UWA 2016)

Yuya Gao (PhD): Origin of A-type granites in East China: Evidence from Hf-O-Li isotopes (MQ 2015)

Hamed Gamal El Dien (PhD): Geochemical Records Linking Plate Tectonics with Mantle Dynamics: Neoproterozoic and Beyond (CU 2021)

Robyn Gardner (PhD): Flow behaviour of the middle and lower crust: Insights from field observations and numerical modelling (MQ 2017)

Rongfeng Ge (PhD): Precambrian to Paleozoic tectono-thermal evolution in the Korla area, northern Tarim Craton, NW China (CU 2015)

Felix Genske (PhD): Assessing the heterogeneous source of the Azores mantle plume (MQ 2013)

Markus Gogouvitis (MSc): Distinguishing hydration in Shear Zones by Aqueous Fluid versus Silicate Melt (UNSW 2017)

Christopher Gonzalez (PhD): CO₂ devolatilisation and its influence on partial melting, subduction, and metasomatism in the mantle lithosphere (UWA 2016)

Louise Rebecca Goode (PhD): Investigating the magmatic drivers behind temporal variations in eruption frequency and style at Kelut volcano, Indonesia (MQ 2018)

Erin Gray (PhD): Deformation of Earth’s upper mantle: insights from naturally occurring fabric types (UWA 2014)

Christopher Grose (PhD): Thermochemical models of oceanic upper mantle (MQ 2015)

Celia Guergouz (MSc): Study of the dynamic emplacement of Nickel mineralisation, as well as the geodynamics of the lithosphere (UWA/Nancy 2014)

Kui Han (PhD): Modelling the physical properties of multi-phase aggregates from the single phases (MQ 2020)

Michael Hartnady (PhD): Crustal evolution of the Albany- Fraser Orogen (CU 2019)

Hadrien Henry (PhD): Mantle pyroxenites: Deformation and seismic properties (MQ 2018)

Matthew Hill (PhD): 4D structural, magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Au-Cu-Bi system in the Tennant Creek Mineral Field, NT, Australia (UWA 2015)

Yosuke Hoshino (PhD): Investigation of hydrocarbon biomarkers preserved in the Fortescue Group in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia (MQ 2015)

Jin-Xiang Huang (PhD): Origin of eclogite and pyroxenite xenoliths in kimberlites and basalts (MQ 2012)

Huiqing Huang (PhD): The petrogenesis of Jurassic granitic rocks in Western Nanling Ranges of South China and tectonic implications (CU 2013)

Linda Iaccheri (PhD): Petrogenesis of granitic rocks in the Granites-Tanami Orogen (UWA 2017)

Carissa Isaac (PhD): 4D architecture of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, in order to constrain the role of the lithospheric structure at 2.7 Ga in the localisation of nickel mineral systems (UWA 2015)

Inalee Jahn (PhD): Crustal evolution of the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia (CU 2017)

Constanza Jara Barra (PhD): Gold pathways: in the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina; Barrick Exploration (UWA 2019)

Kim Jessop (PhD): The role of aqueous fluids in the formation of regional-style high-temperature low-pressure (HTLP) metamorphic complexes (MQ 2018)

Chengxin Jiang (PhD): Combining seismic tomography and sedimentology to understand the deep structure and evolution of the northern edge of Tibetan Plateau (MQ 2016)

Heta Lampinen (PhD): Defining a base metal mineral systems footprint in the Edmund Basin of the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia (UWA 2018)

Erwann Lebrun (PhD): 4D structural modelling and hydrothermal evolution of the sediment hosted Siguiri gold deposit (Guinea) and implication on Paleoproterozoic gold targeting in West Africa (UWA 2015)

Margaux Le Vaillant (PhD): Characterisation of the nature, geometry and size of hydrothermal remobilisation of base metals and platinum group elements in magmatic nickel sulfide deposit systems. Implications for exploration targeting (UWA 2015)

Ben Li (PhD): Evolution of fluid associated with gold mineralisation in the Paleoproterozoic Granites-Tanami Orogen (UWA 2015)

Guoliang Li (PhD): Joint inversion of multiple seismic data for Basin structures (MQ 2020)

Shan Li (PhD): Early Mesozoic magmatism and tectonics in the Beishan area of Inner Mongolia, China (CU 2013)

Shaijie Li (PhD): Isotopic dating oil generation and charge events in Canning (Australia) and Sichuan (China) (CU 2019)

Nora Liptai (PhD): Geochemical and physical properties and evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Nógrád-Gömör Volcanic Field (Northern Pannonian Basin, Central Europe) (MQ 2018)

Li-Ping Liu (PhD): Timing and kinematics of Mesozoic-Cenozoic mountain building and cratonic thinning in eastern North China: a combined structural and thermochronological study (CU 2015)

Yebo Liu (PhD): Paleomagnetism of Proterozoic igneous rocks in Australia and East Antarctica: implications for pre-Pangea supercontinents and supercontinent cycle (CU 2020)

Yingchao (Leo) Liu (PhD): Recognising gold mineralisation zones using GIS-Based modelling of multiple ground and airborne datasets (CU 2015)

Zairong Liu (PhD): Identifying source rocks and oxidation states in southern Australian volcanic rocks (MQ 2020)

Jianggu Lu (PhD): Mantle xenoliths from SE China and SE Australia: Nature and evolution of the lithospheric mantle (MQ, 2018)

Yongjun Lu (PhD): Controls on porphyry emplacement and Porphyry Au-Cu mineralisation along the Red River Fault, Hunan Province, China (UWA 2012)

Volodymyr Lysytsyn (PhD): Mineral prospectivity analysis and quantitative resource assessments for exploration targeting- development of effective data integration models and practical applications (UWA 2015)

Maria Constanza Manassero (PhD): A reduced order approach for probabilistic inversions of 3D magnetotelluric data (MQ 2020)

Macquarie postgrads and postdocs escape Sydney for a lesson in panning for zircons with Elena Belousova.

Jelena Markov (PhD): 3D geophysical interpretation of the Archean-Paleoproterozoic boundary, Leo-Man Shield, West Africa (UWA 2015)

Erin Martin (PhD): Understanding Neoproterozoic geodynamics through Hafnium isotopes in zircon (CU 2020)

Quentin Masurel (PhD): Controls on the genesis, geometry and location of the Sadiola-Yatela Gold Deposit, Republic of Mali (UWA 2016)

Samuel Matthews (PhD): Novel applications of gravity gradiometry for the detection and monitoring of sequestered CO₂ (MQ 2019)

Nicole McGowan (PhD): Messages from the mantle: Geochemical investigations of ophiolitic chromites (MQ 2017)

Holly Meadows (PhD): Mineral geochemistry, deformation and ore-fluid evolution in the Capricorn Orogen, WA (CU 2018)

Vicky Meier (PhD): Metamorphic evolution of the Kerala Khondalite belt, India (CU, 2016)

Kombada Mhopjeni (MSc): Investigating the uranium potential in Namibia using GIS-based techniques (UWA 2013)

David Mole (PhD): Quantifying melt-lithosphere interaction in space and time: understanding nickel mineral systems in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton (UWA 2013)

Stephanie Montalvo Delgado (PhD): Development and application of atom probe tomography to complex zircon grains (CU 2020)

Melissa Murphy (PhD): A novel approach for economic uranium deposit exploration and environmental studies (MQ 2013)

Rosanna Murphy (PhD): Stabilising a craton: The origin and emplacement of the 3.1 Ga Mpuluzi Batholith (MQ 2015)

Antoine Neaud (MSc): The geology of the Savannah nickel sulfide deposit, Western Australia (UWA 2016)

Jiawen Niu (MPhil): Neoproterozoic paleomagnetism of South China and implications for global geodynamics (CU 2016)

Adam Nordsvan (PhD): Sedimentology and provenance of the NE Australian Proterozoic basins to understand the supercontinent Nuna (CU, 2020)

Beñat Oliveira Bravo (PhD): Multicomponent and multiphase reactive flows in the Earth’s mantle (MQ 2017)

Chongjin Pang (PhD): Basin record of Mesozoic tectonic events in South China (CU 2014)

Matthew Pankhurst (PhD): Geodynamic significance of shoshonitic magmatism within the Andean Altiplano (MQ 2013)

Luis Parra-Avila (PhD): 4D evolution of felsic magmatic suites and lithospheric architecture of the Paleoproterozoic Birimian terranes, West Africa (UWA 2016)

Carl Peters (PhD): Deep time biomarkers - A study of organic matter and fluid inclusions in Precambrian rocks (MQ 2017)

Zsanett Pintér (PhD): The composition of melts in the incipient melting regime (MQ 2020)

Jonathon Poh (MSc): Numerical investigation of the driving forces of Archean fluid and heat transfer flows (UWA 2015)

Valerie Roy (MSc): Hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical study of the Peak Hill-Horseshoe Deposit, Capricorn Orogen to identify mineral system footprints (UWA 2018)

Ekaterina Rubanova (PhD): Fluid processes in the deep mantle: Geochemical studies of diamonds and related minerals (MQ 2013)

James (Ed) Saunders (PhD): The nature, abundance and mobility of gold in the mantle (MQ 2014)

Elyse Schinella (PhD): Constraining the contribution of isostasy and dynamic uplift at Venusian volcanic rises and tessera terrain: implications for rifting and volcanism (MQ 2014)

Vikram Selvaraja (PhD): Multiple sulfur isotopes as a tracer of geological processes (UWA 2017)

Liene Spruzeniece (PhD): Fundamental link between deformation, fluids and the rates of reactions in minerals (MQ 2017)

Camilla Stark (PhD): Decoding Mafic Dykes in the Southern Yilgarn Craton: Significance to Australia’s Positions in the Supercontinent-Superplume Cycle (CU 2018)

Jack Stirling (MSc): Geochronology of lower crustal cumulate complexes in the Kohistan Terrane, North-East Pakistan (UWA 2017)

Catherine Stuart (PhD): Melt migration in the lower crust by porous melt ﬂow (MQ 2018) Pictured above, left.

Mingdao Sun (PhD): Late Mesozoic magmatism and its tectonic implication for the Jiamusi Block and adjacent areas of NE China (CU 2013)

Sahand Tadbiri (MSc): The geometry and kinematics of hydrothermal veins in the c. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Western Australia (UNSW 2019)

Rajat Taneja (PhD): The origin of seamount volcanism in the Northeast Indian Ocean (MQ 2015)

Ni Tao (PhD): Thermochronological record of tectonic events in central and southeastern South China since the Mesozoic (CU 2015)

Romain Tilhac (PhD): Petrology and geochemistry of pyroxenites from the Cabo Ortegal Complex, Spain (MQ 2017)

Mehdi Tork Qashqai (PhD): Multi- observable probabilistic inversion for the thermochemical structure of the lithosphere (MQ 2017)

Josh Shea at the lower pit of the Griffith Quarry.

Irina Tretiakova (PhD): The nature, extent and age of the lower crust and underlying subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) beneath the Siberian Craton (Russia) (MQ 2017)

Rick Verberne (PhD): Trace element distribution and mass transfer processes in Rutile (CU 2020)

Silvia Volante (PhD): Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of NE Australia and implications for the assembly of the supercontinent Nuna: Multi-scale analytical approach to decrypt ancient signatures (CU 2020)

Zoja Vukmanovic (PhD): A micromechanical and geochemical analysis of remobilisation of komatiite-hosted Ni sulfide ores (UWA 2013)

Alexander Walker (PhD): Sulphur isotope and trace element signatures within mineralised occurrences in the Fraser Zone, Western Australia (CU 2020)

Chengyuan Wang (PhD): Modification of mantle lithosphere: reaction between recycled carbonate melt and mantle peridotite (MQ 2020)

Chong Wang (PhD): Paleogeographic reconstruction of the North China Craton in the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia: paleomagnetic and geological constraints; CIPRS (CU 2020)

Kai Wang (PhD): Adjoint Tomography of Surface Wave Observables from Ambient Seismic Noise (MQ 2018)

Qian Wang (PhD): A geological traverse across the Jack Hills Metasedimentary Belt, Western Australia: isotopic constraints on the distribution of Proterozoic rocks and the evolution of Hadean crust (CU 2015)

Yu Wang (PhD): Melting process in recycled continental crust (MQ 2015)

James Warren (PhD): 4D evolution of the Ora Banda and Coolgardie Domains (UWA 2016)

Shucheng Wu (PhD): The geodynamic setting of the Western Junggar region during the Late Paleozoic: evidence from seismic tomography (MQ 2019)

Jun Xie (PhD): Verification and applications of surface waves extracted from ambient noise (MQ 2017)

Qing Xiong (PhD): Shenglikou and Zedang peridotite massifs, Tibet (China) Upper mantle processes and geodynamic significance (MQ 2015)

Bo Xu (PhD): Mantle-derived igneous rocks from Southern Tibet: Nature and evolution of the lithospheric mantle and implications for mineralisation from subduction to collision (MQ 2019)

Weihua Yao (PhD): Lower Paleozoic basin record in southern South China: Nature of the Cathaysia basement and evolution of the Wuyi-Yunkai Orogeny (CU 2014)

Yao Yu (PhD): The evolution and water inventory of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle: A new perspective from peridotite xenoliths (SE China) and zircon megacrysts from basalts (MQ 2014)

Qingtao Zeng (PhD): Regional controls on gold mineral systems in the western Qinling Belt, Gansu Province, China (UWA 2013)

Ganyang Zhang (PhD): Sb-Au mineralisation mechanism and exploration targeting prediction research in the Northern Himalaya Metallogenetic Belt, Tibet, China (UWA 2013)

Jianwei Zi (PhD): Igneous petrogenesis and tectonic evolution of Cretaceous plutons, eastern Tibetan Plateau (UWA 2013)

Kongyang Zhu (PhD): Petrogenesis and tectonic setting of Phanerozoic granitic rocks in eastern South China (CU 2014)

CONTINUING

Arash Amirian (PhD): Quantitative determination of the amount and location of water in the Earth; iRTP (MQ, commenced 2017)

Jason Bennett (PhD): The in situ microanalysis of cassiterite to constrain the genesis, evolution and geochronology of tin bearing mineralised systems; RTP (UWA, submitted 2020 ))

Nathan Bowman (PhD): The architecture and genesis of the Archean Wandoo Deposit at Newmont Boddington Goldmine. (UWA, commenced 2020 )

Vili Boykova Grigorova PhD): Development of an apparatus for the study of liquids and melts up to megabar pressures; iMQRTP (MQ, commenced 2019)

Maria Cherdantseva (PhD): The role of volatiles in the genesis of nickel-sulfide mineral systems; CIPRS (UWA, commenced 2019)

Hongkun Dai (PhD): Nature and evolution of the northwest North China Craton; iMQRES (MQ, commenced 2018)

Macquarie University PhD student Hindol Ghatak (left-front) conducting fieldwork in Central Australia with his supervisors (Nathan Daczko left-back) and Tom Raimondo (cameraman, Univ. of SA), and students from The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia (right).

Benedikt Demmert (PhD): Modelling the effect of minority components in biominerals via biomimetic mineralisation; CTIMRTPS (MQ, submitted 2020)

Katherine Farrow (PhD): In situ melt generation and thermal origin of the Nagadarunga Granite: Implications for the geochronology and tectonic evolution of the eastern Arunta Region, Central Australia; RTP (MQ, part time, commenced 2014)

Hindol Ghatak (PhD): Role of fluids in facilitating the intracontinential Alice Springs Orogeny; iMQRTP (MQ, commenced 2017) Pictured

Lauren Gorojovsky (PhD): Volatile Chalcophile Element Cycling Between Earth’s Mantle and Exospheres; RTP (MQ, commenced 2020)

Stephanie Greene (PhD): Evolution of the lithospheric mantle sampled by the Jericho kimberlite, northern Slave craton, Canada; IMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2017)

Ananuer Halimulati (PhD): Abundance, Speciation and distribution of volatile elements in the SCLM; MQRTP (MQ, commenced 2017)

Gonzalo Henriquez (PhD): Improving zircon morphology and chemistry as a tool for assessing and ranking the prospectivity for Cu porphyry deposits in greenfield terranes; Industry - BHP Billiton (UWA, submitted 2020)

Raham Jalil (PhD): Mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of ophiolite associated economic minerals (PGEs, gold, silver, base metals and REEs) in Waziristan area, North-West Pakistan; CFIMRTPT (MQ, commenced 2018)

Constanza Jara Barra (PhD): Gold pathways: in the El Indio Belt, Chile-Argentina (UWA, submitted 2020)

Anthony Lanati (PhD): Petrology, geochemistry and origin of the shoshonites; RTP (MQ, commenced 2018)

Anthony Lanati taking observations of the southernmost mound “The Dyke”, Jugiong, NSW.

Pablo Lara (PhD): Late Neoproterozoic granitoid magmatism of the southernmost section of the Dom Feliciano Belt in Uruguay: Regional geology, geochemistry, geochronology and its significance for the geotectonic evolution of the region; iMRTPS (MQ, submitted 2020)

Jiangyu Li (PhD): Thermal history of Proterozoic NE Australia: Insights into Nuna assembly and breakup; CIPRS, CSC (CU, commenced 2016)

Shiladitya Mazumdar (PhD): Biomineralisation pathways and element partitioning in calcium carbonate; IMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2017)

Keith McKenzie (PhD): Magnetic and gravity gradient tensors and the application to the analysis of remanence; RTP (MQ, commenced 2015)

Uvana Meek (PhD): Melt metasomatism within the lower crust; RTP (MQ, commenced 2016)

Jonathan Munnikhuis (PhD): Microchemical and microstructural evolution of fluid and melt transfer in deep crustal shear zones; iRTP (MQ, commenced 2017)

Thusitha Nimalsiri (PhD): Gravity and magnetic response of the Marulan Supersuite, focusing around the Yerranderie Area; iMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2016)

Brendan Nomchong (PhD): Depositional environment of the c. 2.4 Ga Turee Creek Group, Western Australia; RTP (UNSW, submitted 2021)

Adam Nordsvan (PhD): Sedimentology and provenance of the NE Australian Proterozoic basins to understand the supercontinent Nuna; APA (CU, commenced 2016)

Sinan Özaydin (PhD): Measuring the mantle hydrogen content of cratons by implementing the magnetotelluric method; IMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2018)

Sarath Patabendigedara (PhD): Quantifying the effects of surface and bulk proton transport in mantle materials; IMRTPS (MQ, submitted 2020)

Greg Poole (PhD): Permian magmatism in an early Andean metallogenic belt, Cordillera Frontal, Argentina; APA (UWA, submitted 2020)

Carla Raymond (PhD): Archaeometric investigations of Egyptian artefacts using novel techniques; MRTPS (MQ, commenced 2018)

Matthew Rowe (PhD): late Archaean granitic magmatism related to cratonisation and gold mineralisation in the Yilgarn Craton; The Robert and Maude Gledden Postgraduate Research Scholarship, GSWA (UWA, commenced 2017)

Farshad Salajegheh (PhD): 3D multivariable probabilistic inversion for thermochemical structure of Earth; RTP (MQ, part time, commenced 2014)

Joshua Shea (PhD): Identifying non-peridotite components in the eastern Australian sub-lithosphereic mantle; RTPS (MQ, commenced 2019) Pictured above

Chutian Shu (PhD): The role of hydrous pyroxenites in subduction zone magmas; CTIMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2019)

Georgia Soares (PhD): Evolution of complex life and the GOE; RTP (UNSW, submitted 2020)

Luke Steller (PhD): Movement and concentration of essential pre-biotic elements (with a focus on boron) in both ancient and modern hot spring systems (UNSW, commenced 2019)

Dennis Sugiono (PhD): Sulfur isotope application on the Kanowna Belle Deposit; RTP-IPRS, Northern Star (Kanowna) Pty Ltd (UWA, commenced 2017)

Lynthener Bianca Takenaka de Oliveira (PhD): Origin and composition of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) along the lineament of 125 Azimuth, Brazil; iMQRES (MQ, commenced 2019)

Bronwyn Teece (PhD): Organic geochemistry of complex life at the rise of atmospheric oxygen; RTP (UNSW, commenced 2018)

Anne Vernes (PhD): Understanding camp-scale crustal architecture and its effect on the channelisation of komatiite lava and Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposition (UWA, commenced 2019)

Marina Veter (PhD): Calibration of geochemical “scouts” for mantle processes; IRTPS (MQ, submitted 2020)

Anqi Zhang (PhD): Joint inversion of multiple geophysical data sets to constrain the evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Junggar and Tianshan, NW China; CTIMRTPS (MQ, commenced 2018)