Early career researchers awarded $9m funding
Minister for Education and Youth, the Hon Alan Tudge MP, announced $83 million in support for early career researchers. The University was awarded $9.1m to fund 22 up-and-coming researchers and received the most humanities and social sciences DECRAs in the country.聽
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Duncan Ivison congratulated the recipients.
鈥淚t is fantastic to see so many of our early career researchers recognised through the ARC DECRA scheme 鈥� achieving a nation leading success rate overall. They are working on exciting projects which will generate new knowledge across an amazing array of areas, including quantum technology, digital repression and political resistance in Southeast Asia, Sino-Western philosophical encounters, sustainable energy solutions and building child-friendly cities.鈥�
Among the 22 recipients are Dr Katherine Kenny, from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, who will investigate the pressing global health challenge of antimicrobial resistance from a community-based perspective, and 顿谤听Catherine Price, from the Faculty of Science, who will develop new approaches to prevent the extinction of threatened native species from invasive predators.
2022 DECRA recipients and projects
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Dr Daniel Canaris 鈥� The Aristotelian Soul in Late Ming China
- Dr Sophie Chao聽鈥� Human-kangaroo relations: Reconciling perceptions, knowledges and practices
- 顿谤听Luara Ferracioli聽鈥撀燣ife without Birth: The Ethics, Politics, and Law of Artificial Wombs
- 顿谤听Katherine Kenny聽鈥� Kids, bugs and drugs: Human-microbial relations in everyday family life
- 顿谤听Sophie Loy-Wilson聽鈥� Chinese Business: economic and social survival in white Australia, 1870-1940
- Dr Sann茅 Mestrom聽鈥� ART, PLAY, RISK: An interdisciplinary approach to child-friendly cities
- 顿谤听Aim Sinpeng聽鈥� Cyber Repression and Political Protests in Thailand
Faculty of Engineering
- Dr Yuhan Huang 鈥� Improving pollutants dispersion in street canyons for better聽urban living
- Dr Jonathan Kummerfeld 鈥� Generating Plots with Dialogue Based Executable Semantic Parsing
- Dr Weibin Liang聽鈥� Engineering of biocatalysis in metal-organic frameworks for CO2 conversion
- Dr Keita Nomoto聽鈥� Novel high-performance copper-based materials via additive manufacturing
- Dr Shenlong Zhao聽鈥� Realising highly selective catalysts for continuous chlorine production
Faculty of Science
- Dr Shawna Foo 鈥� Identifying factors that counter negative impacts of ocean climate change
- Dr Shila Ghazanfar 鈥� Statistical approaches for spatial genomics at single cell resolution
- 顿谤听Rosalyn Gloag聽鈥� Mito-nuclear coevolution as an engine of biodiversity
- Dr Ashish Goyal 鈥� Multiscale mathematical modelling to gain insights into hepatitis viruses
- Dr Chia-Ling Hsu鈥� Searching for New CP Violating Phenomena at the Intensity Frontier
- 顿谤听Catherine Price聽鈥� Protecting prey from predators using sensory tactics
- Dr Antoine Runge 鈥� Going Fourth: ruling light with pure-quartic solitons
- Dr Dominic Tran聽鈥� Stop it: Learning response inhibition
- Dr Carla Verdi 鈥� First-principles design of atomic defects for quantum technologies
- Dr Dominic Williamson 鈥� Topological phases of matter for quantum computation
The full list of聽聽and their project summaries are available on the ARC website.