EarthByte PhD candidates Elnaz and Hojat awarded two prestigious scholarships and a research prize.

EarthByte Group PhD candidates Elnaz Heidari and Hojat Shirmard have recently been awarded two competitive scholarships: the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) Research Foundation Scholarship (2025–2027) and the Edgeworth David Travelling Scholarship, in recognition of their innovative geoscience research. In addition to these honours, Hojat has also been selected to receive the Faculty of … Read more…

Net Zero Institute White Paper on Critical Minerals and Materials released

The University of Sydney’s Net Zero Institute has just released their White Paper on Critical Minerals & Materials. It represents a massive collaborative effort of over 50 colleagues from the University and international partners. The EarthByte Group has made a contribution to it with an outline of AI-powered mineral prospectivity mapping, particularly applied to copper … Read more…

PLATO – PLAte Tectonics and Ore deposits

Project PLATO is an ARC Linkage project as a collaboration between the EarthByte Group and Lithodat. CIs, PIs and AIs include Dietmar Müller (Usyd) Maria Seton (Usyd) Sabin Zahirovic (Usyd) Sara Polanco (Usyd) Brent McInnes (Curtin Univ.) Fabian Kohlmann (Lithodat) In addition, Dr Ehsan Farahbakhsh is a research fellow and Elnaz Heidari is a PhD student … Read more…

Welcome New PhD Candidate Elnaz Heidari

Elnaz is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences. With a MSc degree in Mining Engineering – Mineral Exploration from Amirkabir University of Technology, she has gained practical experience through her involvement in various mineral exploration projects for industry, where she employed remote sensing techniques with satellite data and … Read more…

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