Awards, honours and grants

Members Involved Name of Award Grant Scheme Description of Award / Grant Funding Source Grant ID Total amount of funding (AUD)
Priyank Kumar ARC DECRA Fellowship A predictive, ab initio design of enhanced plasmonic photocatalysts. Other ARC grants DE210101259 360,000
Matthew Reeves ARC DECRA Fellowship Calming the Superfluid Storm: Taming Turbulence in Superfluid Devices. Other ARC grants DE220101548 415,000
Qingdong Ou ARC DECRA Fellowship Engineering twisted two-dimensional materials for mid-infrared detectors. Other ARC grants DE220100154 426,000
Eliezer Estrecho ARC DECRA Fellowship Mixing light and matter with complex gauge fields. Other ARC grants DE220100712 427,562
Nikhil Medhekar ARC Discovery Project From One Structure to Another for Improved Materials Design. Other ARC grants DP210101451 470,000
Zengji Yue, David Cortie ARC Discovery Project Hot Topic: Quantum Design of Phononic Heat Filters. Other ARC grants DP210101436 315,000
Jeff Davis ARC Discovery Project Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy of Strongly Correlated Materials. Other ARC grants DP210102050 410,000
Jan Seidel ARC Discovery Project Multiferroic Skyrmion Materials for Next Generation Nanoelectronics. Other ARC grants DP210102554 240,000
Susan Coppersmith ARC Discovery Project Topological superconductivity and spin electronics in silicon and germanium. Other ARC grants DP210101608 580,000
Jan Seidel ARC Discovery Project Topotactic Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic and Skyrmion Materials. Other ARC grants DP210102346 437,000
Chris Vale ARC Discovery Project Transport and impurity dynamics in a unitary Fermi gas. Other ARC grants DP210101652 428,000
Zhi Li ARC Future Fellowship Iron-based high-temperature topological superconductors. Other ARC grants FT210100844 802,288
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Nikhil Medhekar ARC Industry Transformational Research Hub ARC Research Hub for Advanced Manufacturing with 2D Materials (AM2D). Other ARC grants IH210100025 4,379,165
Toby Bell ARC LIEF A fast fluorescence lifetime imaging microscope to track protein dynamics. Other ARC grants LE210100046 289,381
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Xiaolin Wang ARC LIEF A platform for probing nanoscale magnetic states under multiple actuations. Other ARC grants LE210100086 489,250
Lan Wang, Jian-zhen Ou, Torben Daeneke ARC LIEF Magnetometry Facility for Molecular and Nanoscale Materials. Other ARC grants LE210100009 620,000
Xiaolin Wang, Kirrily Rule, Zengji Yue, David Cortie ARC Linkage Project Functional topological materials for superior thermoelectric applications Other ARC grants LP200201096 400,551
Iolanda Di Bernardo Juan de la Cierva Fellowship The Juan de la Cierva fellowship is highly competitive, is similar to the Australian DECRA fellowship. Iolanda will be working at the IMDEA Nanociencia Institute in Madrid, an interdisciplinary research Centre dedicated to the exploration and applications of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Other external funding
Jesper Levinsen Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society Recognising outstanding referees who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the American Physical Society journals. Other external funding
Zengji Yue Prioritising Emerging Research Leaders Fellowship - University of Wollongong The PERL Fellowships support emerging researchers on key projects under the mentorship of established researchers. Supporting academic staff levels A-C, designed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on Australia's research workforce, initiatives and activities. Other external funding
Jared Cole Royal Society of New Zealand, Catalyst International Leaders Fellowship Using exotic materials for novel spintronic and superconducting devices: Electronics underpin the modern world, from the phones in our pockets to the supercomputers that model the weather. Other external funding 21-VUW-005-ILF 138,000
Semonti Bhattacharyya The Early Career Women Writing (ECWW) workshop Alumni SILVER Award Awards set for the former attendees of the Early Career Women in STEMM Writing Workshop based on career achievements since attending the workshop. Other external funding 200
Alex Hamilton, Oleh Klochan, Daisy Qingwen Wang, Yonatan Ashlea-Alava UNSW IP lodgement support Supporting provisional patent lodgement costs University of New South Wales Sydney 6,100
Alex Hamilton, Oleh Klochan, Daisy Qingwen Wang UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS) Thin film metal evaporator for P-type (hole) quantum devices and III-V solar cells”. University of New South Wales Sydney 170,000
Vivasha Govinden UNSW Science PhD Writing Scholarship Supporting student during the examination period of PhD thesis so they can focus on preparing journal articles for publications. University of New South Wales Sydney 7,500
Baoyue Zhang Vice‐Chancellor’s Prize for Research Excellence – Higher Degree by Research The Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Research Excellence – HDR (Higher Degree by Research) recognises an outstanding HDR candidate who has achieved the highest levels of excellence in research during the completion of their degree. RMIT University 3,000
Maedehsadat Mousavi Women Leadership Australia scholarship - Leading Edge Leadership training and mentoring Other external funding 1,000
Abigail Goff Women Leadership Australia scholarship - Leading Edge Leadership training and mentoring Other external funding 1,000
Tenille Ibbotson Women Leadership Australia scholarship - Leading Edge Leadership training and mentoring Other external funding 1,000
Nicci Coad Women Leadership Australia scholarship - Leading Edge Leadership training and mentoring Other external funding 1,000
Semonti Bhattacharyya Young scientist representative at World Laureates Forum (WLF) Selected as young scientist representative from Monash University at World Laureates Forum (WLF) Other external funding