Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology

Mr Joshua Frank

Research Scholar

Joshua received both his Bachelor and Master Degree in Environmental Science and Technology from The Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 2015 and 2017. His research focused on water treatment technologies. He then started his PhD at the University of Queensland – AWMC, where his research focuses on methane based biotechnology.

 

 

Achievement Highlights: 

  • UQ Research Higher Degree Scholarship (2018-2021), awarded by the University of Queensland
  • Deutschlandstipendium (2015-2017), German research and industry scholarship awarded by the Federal Government of Germany
  • PROMOS (2016) study abroad Scholarship for Master Thesis at UQ-AWMC
Featured projects Duration
Fundamental understanding and application of the metabolic pathway for VFA/electricity production through Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (AOM)
Australian Research Council
 2018–2021
An innovative nitrogen removal process by coupling anammox and methane-dependent denitrification
Australian Research Council
 2009

Publications

Journal Articles (5)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Frank, Joshua, Zhang, Xueqin, Marcellin, Esteban, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2023). Salinity effect on an anaerobic methane- and ammonium-oxidising consortium: shifts in activity, morphology, osmoregulation and syntrophic relationship. Water Research, 242 120090, 120090. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120090
Zhang, Xueqin, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ni, Gaofeng, Frank, Joshua, Zhao, Jing, Cai, Chen, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2022). Bio-reduced graphene oxide on hollow fibers as gas-diffusible anodes for enhancing bioelectrochemical methane oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 440 135811, 135811. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.135811
Cai, Chen, Zhang, Xueqin, Wu, Mengxiong, Liu, Tao, Lai, Chun-Yu, Frank, Joshua, He, Bingqing, Marcellin, Esteban, Guo, Jianhua, Hu, Shihu and Yuan, Zhiguo (2021). Roles and opportunities for microbial anaerobic oxidation of methane in natural and engineered systems. Energy and Environmental Science, 14 (9), 4803-4830. doi: 10.1039/d1ee00708d
Zhang, Xueqin, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Frank, Joshua, Cai, Chen, Stark, Terra, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2020). Enhancing methane oxidation in a bioelectrochemical membrane reactor using a soluble electron mediator. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13 (1) 173, 173. doi: 10.1186/s13068-020-01808-7
Frank, Joshua, Ruhl, Aki Sebastian and Jekel, Martin (2015). Impacts of backwashing on granular activated carbon filters for advanced wastewater treatment. Water Research, 87, 166-174. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.09.020

Thesis

Frank, Joshua (2022). Exploring the effect of salinity and methane concentration on nitrate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane. PhD Thesis, School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/875d130