First published 28 November 2018
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan announced the 2019 round grants yesterday, with 20 QUT projects and researchers awarded a total of $10,868,345.
The 15 QUT-led projects to receive ARC Discovery Projects funding totalling more than $6.6 million also include research to improve night driving vision testing, enhance understanding of the interaction of genetics and epigenetics, and enable automatic re-engineering of large enterprise applications to run in the Cloud as microservices.
Four QUT researchers received ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award grants totalling more than $1.5 million, including Dr Carol Hon, whose project aims to improve the mental health of workers in the construction industry, where the suicide rate is 84 cent higher than in the non-construction workforce.
A $2.7 million ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme grant was also awarded to ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and QUT Professor Dmitri Golberg to lead a project to design a universal super-high resolution transmission electron microscope, providing unique, advanced capability for the Australian materials science and engineering research community.
The full list of 2019 QUT ARC research grant recipients:
ARC Discovery Projects grants
- Prof David Atchison, Dr Marwan Suheimat (Health): $425,000 – Relationship of retinal directionality to human retinal anatomy variations.
- Prof Alistair Barros, Prof Colin Fidge, Dr Chun Ouyang (Science & Engineering): $504,000 – Re-engineering enterprise systems for microservices in the Cloud.
- Prof Stephen Blanksby (Science & Engineering): $655,000 – Pluses and minuses of lipid mass spectrometry.
- Prof Steven Bottle (Science & Engineering): $400,000 – Radical Redox Indicators.
- Prof Margot Brereton, Prof Paul Roe, Dr Bernd Ploderer (Science & Engineering): $585,000 – Ambient Nature Network: new technologies to connect people to nature.
- Prof Richard Brown (Science & Engineering): $325,000 – Understanding pollutant transport in estuaries and coastal rivers.
- A/Prof Jennifer Firn, A/Prof James McGree, Prof Anthony Clarke (Science & Engineering): $651,523 – Managing complex networks in endangered grasslands to restore food webs.
- Prof Terry Flew (Creative Industries), A/Prof Nicolas Suzor (Law): $378,000 – Platform Governance: Rethinking internet regulation as media policy.
- Prof Lyn Griffiths, Dr Rodney Lea, Dr Heidi Sutherland (Health): $590,000 – Characterising inheritance patterns of whole genome DNA methylation.
- Prof Fawang Liu, Dr Qianqian Yang, Emeritus Prof Vo Anh (Science & Engineering): $339,000 – Fractional dynamic models for MRI to probe tissue microstructure.
- A/Prof Peter O’Connor, Prof Nerina Jimmieson (Business): $335,000 – Improving the performance and wellbeing of introverted leaders.
- A/Prof Hongxia Wang, Dr Wayde Martens, Prof John Bell (Science & Engineering) $375,000 – Green synthesis of organometal perovskite solar cells.
- Prof Joanne Wood, Dr Alexander Black, Dr Philippe Lacherez, Dr Gillian Isoardi (Health): $399,458 – Using visual science to reduce the dangers of night driving.
- Dr Jingsan Xu, Dr Liangzhi Kou (Science & Engineering): $270,000 – Cost-efficient 2D heterostructures for solar overall water splitting.
- Dr Petrus van Heijster (Science & Engineering): $406,000 – New mathematics for understanding complex patterns in the natural sciences.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award grants
- Dr Carol Hon (Science & Engineering): $330,000 – Improving mental health and safety in the construction industry.
- Dr Sarina Sarina (Science & Engineering): $392,556 – Tuning non-plasmonic metals to high performance photocatalysts.
- Dr Lisa Stafford (Health): $383,960 – Inclusive community planning for people with disabilities in regional areas.
- Dr Kate Williams (Education): $410,500 – A rhythm and movement intervention for self-regulation in preschool.
ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant
- Prof Dmitri Golberg, Prof Ian Mackinnon, Prof Jose Alarco, Dr James Riches (Science & Engineering): $2,713,348 – Design of a universal super-high resolution transmission electron microscope.
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