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.