Discovery success to University of Adelaide researchers will benefit Australians

Twenty-seven University of Adelaide researchers have collectively received more than $10.8 million in funding from the Federal Government to further their work in diverse areas that will impact on people’s lives in Australia and globally.

The University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Anton Middelberg, said: “This highly-competitive funding highlights the breadth and depth of fundamental work performed by University of Adelaide researchers. 

“The topics emphasise the University’s commitment to investigator-led research that is also aimed at delivering long term benefits to the economy and to society. Today’s funding announcement is further evidence of how the University is helping to shape the future of our nation and its knowledge base.”

“The topics emphasise the University’s commitment to investigator-led research that is also aimed at delivering long term benefits to the economy and to society,"Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Anton Middelberg

The 2020 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects are:

$350,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Gavin Rowell
The Dawn of Extreme Gamma Ray Astronomy

$550,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Christian Doonan
Advancing the Chemistry of Metal-organic Frameworks for Biotechnology

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Andrei Kotooussov
Theory and methods for evaluation of microstructural fatigue damage

$578,000 awarded to Professor Shaobin Wang
Catalytic Degradation of Emerging Microplastic Pollutants

$540,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Maziar Arjomandi
Micro-perforation for passive drag reduction

$507,438 awarded to a team led by Professor Mathai Varghese
Coarse Geometry: a novel approach to the Callias index & topological matter

$157, 699 awarded to a team led by Professor Sarah Wheeler
Consequences of water reform and changing farm adaptation in the Basin

$510,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Anthony Roberts
Modelling, Mathematical Analysis, and Computation of Multiscale Systems

$390,000 awarded to Professor Chunhua Shen
Deep Learning that Scales

$297,621 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor John Semmler
Reconnecting the ageing brain to enhance plasticity and motor learning

$320,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Stijn Glorie
A detrital apatite archive to track crustal growth

$420,000 awarded to Associate Professor Jonathan George
New Discoveries in Organic Synthesis Inspired by the Efficiency of Nature

$390,000 awarded to Professor Derek Abbott
An advanced framework for multi-agent strategic interactions

$380,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Yvonne Stokes
Prediction of inertial particle focusing in curved microfluidic ducts

$464,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Jonathan Tyler
East Asian Monsoon response to periods of abrupt global change

$200,135 awarded to a team led by Dr Timothy Legrand
The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations in Illiberal States

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Ian Reid
Active Visual Navigation in an Unexplored Environment

$349,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Luke Bennetts
Empowering next-generation sea-ice models with wave–ice mathematics

$450,000 awarded to Associate Professor Tara Pukala
Revealing molecular detail of DNA triplexes to underpin antigene technology

$330,000 awarded to Associate Professor Paul Jackson
Multi-messenger particle physics: Hunting for Leptoquarks

$370,000 awarded to Dr Tat-Jun Chin
New Paradigms for Robust Fitting: Kernelisation and Polyhedral Search

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Sanjeeva Balasuriya
Uncertainties in coherent transport of particles and intrinsic properties

$240,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Firmin Sabro Doko Tchatoka
Selection of mixed strength moment restrictions and optimal inference

$460,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Hugh Harris
Characterisation of the beneficial vs toxic forms of selenium in the diet

$570,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Bruce Dawson
Understanding the nature and origin of the highest energy cosmic rays