The Australian Research Council (ARC) have announced the latest round of successful Discovery Project and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants.
The University was awarded 36 Discovery Project grants, totalling $18 million, and six LIEF grants totalling almost $6 million, which accounts for more than 20 percent of the total LIEF funding allocated this year.
ARC Chief Executive Officer, Judi Zielke, said that for every $1 of research that the ARC funds, $3.32 is generated in economic output back into the Australian community.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Emma Johnston emphasised the significance of these grants in driving transformative research agendas.
“The success of our researchers in securing these prestigious grants underscores the University of Sydney’s commitment to fostering an environment of academic excellence and innovation,” stated Professor Johnston.
“Through these grants, our researchers will have the opportunity to push the boundaries of knowledge, driving impactful change in their respective fields and contributing to solutions for the most pressing global challenges.”
Below is a list of the University of Sydney’s successful ARC grants funded in this round, including the lead academic and the funding awarded.
ARC Discovery Projects
- , $169,128 – Investigating superannuation as inheritance.
- , $574,037 – Testing links between life-history and genome evolution.
- , $413,390 – Developing a novel granular stress sensor for soil exploration.
- , $853,565 – Evaluating the network neuroscience of human cognition to improve AI.
- , $587,000 – Exploring liquid metal solvents for high entropy and atomically configured systems.
- , $328,879 – Multidisciplinary analysis of financial reference points and well-being.
- , $387,592 – Investigating quantum algebras with supersymmetries.
- , $469,263, Developing novel tractography-guided MRI methods for studying healthy brain ageing.
- , $522,390 – Creating quantum generative diffusion models for molecular research.
- , $780,618 – Investigating how the chromatin remodeller CHD4 regulates gene expression.
- , $402,491 – Developing an approximation theory for structured neural networks.
- , $709,714 – Investigating whether the plasma membrane is the control hub for cellular ageing.
- , $190,000 – Investigating the effect of political conflict on food markets in low- and middle-income countries. , $703,903 – Understanding mitotic telomere deprotection.
- , $510,000 – Developing generative visual pre-training on unlabelled big data.
- , $477,804 – Revolutionising wind farm optimisation.
- , $524,369 – Investigating categorification and KLR algebras.
- , $511,077 – Studying the sensing of seasons without the eye for animal breeding.
- , $718,978 – Exploring virus diversity to prevent future pandemics.
- , $398,033 – Developing accessible playgrounds for children with vision impairment.
- , $472,719 – Addressing fundamental problems in Number Theory and Combinatorics.
- , $664,259 – Attracting, preparing, and sustaining quality teachers in early education.
- , $747,027 – Assembling the building blocks in the blueprint of the embryonic head.
- , $547,662 – Developing algorithms for future-proof networks.
- , $527,221 – Investigating energy flow through nanomaterials.
- , $756,919 – Investigating root effects on soil organic matter in grasslands.
- , $503,877 – Learning the meso-scale organisation of complex networks.
- , $523,390 -Unlocking self-healing bio-concrete through multiscale modelling.
- , $348,424 – Improving digital sexual literacy in Australia.
- , $391,371 – Mapping creativity in captivity during WWII.
- , $705,986 – Discovering the molecular controls of epigenetic inheritance.
- , $502,649 – Artificial intelligence in education: Democratising policy.
- , $453,248 – Mapping the frontiers of private property in Australia.
- , $411,200 – Policing Australian popular music.
- $569,705 – Composite clad steel-geopolymer concrete systems for resilient structures.
- , $317,143 – Making better decisions: An investigation of time-biases.
ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF)
- , $546,254.00 – improving access to powder manufacturing.
- , $1,000,000 – Deep imaging for understanding molecular processes in complex organisms.
- , $950,000 – establishing a fuel cell and electrolyser prototyping facility.
- , $1,341,398 – to develop a diffrractometer to rapidly solve the atomic-scale structures of molecules and materials.
- , $1,200,000 – develop testing capability for materials under extreme environments.
- , $928,291 – to establish a single-molecule facility allowing researchers to explore cellular processes and molecular mechanisms.
The majority of LIEF funding will support the Univerisity’s (CRF) network, further bolstering the open-access research infrastructure that the University operates.
In the infrastructure space, the University also stands to benefit from the federal government’s recent commitment of $650m to support research infrastructure through its (NCRIS) program, with four established nodes within the CRF network and new nodes in the pipeline.
