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Eleven Monash researchers
have been awarded a total of $7,854,900 in the first ever round of Australian
Research Council Future Fellowships to further research in their fields.
The Australian Government created the new ARC Future Fellowships to encourage
research in areas of national critical importance by providing Australia's outstanding
researchers with the incentives so that their research continues to be conducted
on Australian soil and to attract international researchers to Australia to
support the Commonwealth Government's innovation agenda.
"Monash has performed well in the first round of this new scheme,"
said Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor
Cornish. "This result confirms that Monash researchers are tackling issues
that are of great importance to our nation."
Future Fellowships were awarded to researchers from the Faculty of Arts, the
Faculty of Business and Economics, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science.
Successful projects were extremely varied and included examples such as, investigating
how to develop ultra-clean fuel from brown coal, developing forecasting methods
to determine stock market volatility and exploring the origins of our universe.
The following existing Monash researchers were awarded ARC Future Fellowships
for the following projects:
- Associate Professor, Stuart Batten, Faculty of Science, Building Advanced
Materials from the Bottom Up
- Dr Jacqueline Broad, Faculty of Arts, Mary Astell: An Historical-Intellectual
Role Model for Women in Philosophy
- Dr Duncan Galloway, Faculty of Science, High-energy probes of dense matter
and distorted spacetime
- Dr Christopher Hutchinson, Faculty of Engineering, Dynamically responding
metals: a new generation of engineering alloys
- Associate Professor, Gael Martin, Faculty of Business and Economics, A
Bayesian State Space Methodology for Forecasting Stock Market Volatility and
Associated Time-varying Risk Premia
- Dr Ranjith Pathegama Gamage, Faculty of Engineering, An assessment of carbon
dioxide storage capacity of water bearing sedimentary basins
- Dr Jeremy Smith, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Masterminding
Reproduction: Kisspeptin and RFamide-Related Peptide
- Dr Bjorn Winther-Jensen, Faculty of Engineering, Electro-Catalytic Conjugated
Polymers
- Dr L Zhang, Faculty of Science, Generation of Ultra-Clean Fuel from Victorian
Brown Coal and Its Oxygen-Enriched Combustion Characteristics
The following international researchers will come to Monash to take up their
appointments as Future Fellows:
- Dr A Mazumdar, Faculty of Science, Origins of our Universe
- Dr J Zhang, Faculty of Science, Three Dimensional Anti-biofouling Conducting
Polymer Hydrogel Electrodes for Biosensor and Biofuel cell Applications
"I congratulate all ARC Future Fellows at Monash University and those
about to join us for their hard work and vision and I look forward to the outcomes
that this generous funding from the ARC will assist in facilitating," said
Professor Cornish.
Posted September 9th, 2009
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