The University of Sydney
has been successful in securing 17 of the newly created Australian Research
Council (ARC) Future Fellowships, which were announced by the Minister for Innovation,
Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, today.
The Fellows will receive up to $135,000 for each of the 4 years - with the
administering institution receiving up to $50,000 a year for associated infrastructure
and other costs.
A total of 200 outstanding national and international mid-career researchers
have been chosen as the first ARC Future Fellows.
"The Government established the ARC Future Fellowships scheme to address
the gap in opportunities for mid-career researchers in Australia, which forced
many of our talented researchers to search for work overseas," Senator
Carr said.
The successful Fellows from The University of Sydney are:
Dr F Allon, The Wealth Effect: A cultural analysis of prosperity, financialisation
and everyday life in contemporary Australia;
Dr MM Barbour, Novel laser isotopic techniques to assess the potential for water-use
efficiency improvement of Australian crops;
Dr K Belov, The genetics of resistance to devil facial tumour disease
Dr AD Corn, Indigenising the Semantic Web: Ontologies for Indigenous knowledge
and heritage resources on a machine-readable Web;
Dr AC Doherty, Quantum control in mesoscopic condensed matter systems;
Dr PJ Franks, Past and future effects of climate change on the carbon-water
balance of plants;
Dr G Gottwald, Stochastic Methods in Mathematical Geophysical Fluid Dynamics;
Dr IM Harris, Seeing the forest and the trees: Cognitive and neural mechanisms
underlying recognition of individual objects and sets;
Dr AO Holcombe, Position perception, attention, object motion, and action;
Dr DJ Hunter, The early osteoarthritis (OA) phenotype;
Dr BT Kuhlmev, Ringed photonic crystal fibres for broadband nonlinear optics;
A/Prof J Latimer, Innovative solutions to primary care management of back pain;
Dr HY Liu, Fatigue Life Prediction of Nano-filler Modified Composites;
A/Prof AJ Martin, Academic Buoyancy and Academic Resilience: New Approaches
to Examining and Understanding Adversity and Setback in the Academic Domain;
Prof Dr T Maschmeyer, Sustainable Solar Hydrogen Production from Waste Water;
Dr ME Thomas, Expedition to Arnhem Land: Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national
context;
Dr JY Yang, New statistical methods for identifying micro-ribonucleic acid (miRNA)
regulatory networks.
The ARC Future Fellowships scheme is administered by the Australian Research
Council under the National Competitive Grants Program. The Australian Government
has committed funding of $844 million over five-years from 2009 for the scheme.
More information about the ARC Future Fellowships scheme is available here at
its website.
Posted September 8th, 2009
