Sep 9 2009
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.