Seventeen Macquarie University research projects have been successful in securing $7.4 million in funding in the 2022 Discovery Projects scheme announced by the Australian Research Council (ARC), while research groups from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, in partnership with industry collaborators, have been awarded over $2.5 million in the latest round of the ARC’s 2022 Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) and 2021 Linkage Projects (round 1) schemes.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sakkie Pretorius says the breadth and depth of high-quality projects awarded funding across these schemes strongly reflects Macquarie’s longstanding commitment to research excellence and innovation.
“Discovery funding supports our researchers to drive and deliver our strategic vision to generate new understandings, build deeper knowledge and deliver world-leading research. LIEF and Linkage funding provides opportunities to further strengthen Macquarie’s collaborative relationships with industry partners to help respond to, and solve, some of the world’s great challenges.”
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Sakkie Pretorius, said “Each of these awards reflect our University’s strong and thriving commitment to research that has real-world impact and applications. Through consilience, our pioneering researchers, individually, collaboratively, or partnered with industry and the wider community, can unlock new knowledge and explore previously out-of-reach possibilities,” he says.
“I congratulate all our recipients across the University on their success in securing these grants, it is an absolute testament to your diligence and dedication to your disciplines and I look forward to seeing the positive and world-changing impact of the research these awards enable.”
Congratulations to our 2022 Discovery Project grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Title | Amount Awarded |
Professor Amanda Wise and Associate Professor Selvaraj Velayutham from the Macquarie School of Social Sciences | Social Resilience, Migrant Integration and Informal Sport in Public Space | $303,442 |
Professor Martin Bommas, Professor Naguib Kanawati from the Department of History and Archaeology and Associate Professor Craig O’Neill | Crisis as Opportunity: Societal Change in Early Middle Kingdom Egypt | $408,881 |
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Title | Amount Awarded |
Dr Ji Li, Dr The Anh Bui and Professor Xuan Thinh Duong from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Harmonic analysis of Laplacians in curved spaces | $375,000 |
Dr Thomas Williams from the School of Natural Sciences | From trash to treasure: engineering waste carbon utilisation in yeast | $494,550 |
Associate Professor Johannes Le Roux and Dr Rachael Dudaniec from the School of Natural Sciences | Using assisted evolution to win the war against invasive species | $323,500 |
Associate Professor Alexei Gilchrist from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Quantum measurement as a resource | $270,000 |
Associate Professor Yuling Wang and Professor Alison Rodger from the School of Natural Sciences | Next-generation epigenetic analysis: direct reading of DNA methylation | $390,000 |
Dr Haoran Ren and Professor Judith Dawes from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | All-on-chip twisted light modulator for ultrahigh-capacity data processing | $350,000 |
Associate Professor Paul Hesse, Professor Kirstie Fryirs and Dr Timothy Ralph from the School of Natural Sciences | Will rivers be smaller when the climate is hotter? | $443,000 |
Dr Stuart Hawkins from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Advanced Bayesian Inversion Algorithms for Wave Propagation | $420,000 |
Associate Professor Daniel Zucker from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences | Seeing Dark with Light: Revealing the Milky Way with Stellar Streams | $700,000 |
Professor Marie Herberstein and Associate Professor Linda Beaumont from the School of Natural Sciences | Why are warning colours in animals so rare? | $403,431 |
Professor Ian Wright and Emeritus Professor Mark Westoby from the School of Natural Sciences | Leaf and wood physiology and biomass allocation as drivers of plant growth | $584,995 |
Dr Ajay Narendra from the School of Natural Sciences | Overcoming limits of miniaturisation to enhance spatial memory capacities | $739,586 |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Title | Amount Awarded |
Professor Anina Rich from the School of Psychological Sciences | Understanding and improving sustained attention under vigilance conditions | $405,924 |
Associate Professor Kay Bussey from the School of Psychological Sciences | Reducing Cyberbullying: Turning Bystanders into Constructive Defenders | $406,241 |
Macquarie Business School
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Title | Amount Awarded |
Professor Tom Smith, Dr Jianlei Han and Professor Martina Linnenluecke from the Department of Applied Finance | Political connections and the cleantech transition in China and Australia | $391,682 |
Congratulations to our ARC 2022 Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) funding recipients:
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Project | Amount Awarded |
Associate Professor Richard McDermid from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Associate Professor Simon Ellis and Professor Mark Casali from Australian Astronomical Optics | MAVIS: A Revolutionary New Instrument for the European Southern Observatory | $1,749,940 |
Dr Christian Schwab from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Professor David Coutts from the MQ Photonics Research Centre | The MARVEL exoplanet facility | $296,339 |
Congratulations to our ARC 2021 Linkage Projects round 1 funding recipient:
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Project | Amount Awarded |
Professor Richard Han, Professor Annabelle McIver and Dr Xi Zheng from the School of Computing | Robust and Scalable Autonomous Landing for Drones | $459,593 |
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