51 research projects awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants

Grant recipient(s)

Project

Professor Brock Bastian; Dr Kelly Kirkland

This project aims to explore how facing threats, from those experienced day-to-day to widespread societal issues and ecological contexts, can lead people to adopt more unforgiving moral stances.

Professor Sarah Bell; Associate Professor Crystal Legacy

This project aims to answer the question: How do community networks influence governance for infrastructure resilience?

Professor David Bissell; Associate Professor Ilan Wiesel; Professor Peter Adey

This project aims to investigate the diverse experiences of displaced renters in Australia’s private rental housing market by advancing understanding of how people rebuild their lives in the wake of displacement.

Professor David Bissell; Professor Leah Ruppanner; Dr Brendan Churchill

This project aims to investigate how workers, households and communities in Australia are reskilling in diverse ways.

Dr Hayley Cameron; Professor Dustin Marshall; Professor Timothy Coulson; Assistant Professor Naomi Levine

This project aims to leverage a 6-year evolution experiment to explore how an Australian copepod evolves under future thermal and food regimes.

Professor Frank Caruso; Professor Irene Yarovsky; Dr Yi Ju

This project aims to produce a new class of lipid nanoparticles with tuneable nanostructures by exploring a library of natural polyphenols and lipid molecules.

Dr Matthew Champion; Professor Stefan Hanß; Dr Susanne Thürigen

This project seeks to write the first history of the hourglass from its origins c.1300 through to its global circulation in the sixteenth century.

Dr Susan Christo; Professor Laura Mackay

This project aims to create an ‘atlas’ that maps the immune cell network in various organs.

Professor Jocelyn (Lyn) Craig; Professor Michael Bittman

This project aims to address Australia’s looming dependency crisis by exploring tensions between increasing women's labour supply whilst maintaining adequate fertility rates.

Professor Evdokia Dimitriadis; Dr Wei Zhou; Associate Professor Mark Green; Dr Olivia Nonn

This project will define the regulatory mechanisms by which the endometrium remodels to become receptive to embryos.

Dr Daniel Fan

This project aims to advance and synthesizing the latest developments in super-resolution microscopy (also known as nanoscopy).

Professor Kim Felmingham; Professor Amy Jordan; Dr Elise McGlashan; Professor Benjamin Harrison

This project will provide the first insights into the impact of sleep and circadian (‘body clock’) factors on fear processes in late adolescence.

Dr Christopher Goodman; Professor Stuart Ralph

The project aims to explore ways to harness unusual protist biology to build gene drives and genetic control systems that can be applied in nature.

Dr Katharine Greenaway

This project aims to understand ‘eco-emotions’ about climate change and harness their power to promote much-needed action.

Professor Nicholas Haslam

This project aims to investigate how and why public understandings of mental health have shifted in recent decades, and to examine the impact of these conceptual changes.

Professor Daniel Hatters; Professor Dr Rohit Pappu

The project aims to determine the cellular mechanisms regulating the solubility of proteins inside mammalian cells, which are poorly understood and, when they fail, lead to neurodegenerative diseases.

Associate Professor Michael Haydon; Professor Alexander Johnson; Dr Jessica Hyles; Dr Mohammad Pourkheirandish

This project aims to establish a novel approach to improve protein content of wheat grain without loss of yield in Australian conditions.

Professor Benjamin Howden; Professor Linda Blackall; Dr Arash Zamyadi; Associate Professor Michael Grace; Dr Rebekah Henry

This project seeks to tackle a pressing environmental and public health challenge: the threat posed by toxic cyanobacteria in the water we recycle for growing food.

Dr Stuart Johnston; Professor Kevin Painter

This project aims to improve our understanding of how population behaviour is dictated by diversity in individual characteristics.

Dr Mario Kieburg; Professor Peter Forrester

This project aims to advance recently formulated matrix integral transform methods, based on matrix harmonic analysis, to a new level and exploit the results for the discovery of new limit laws and their applications.

Associate Professor Tania King; Professor Belinda Hewitt; Professor Lyndall Strazdins; Professor Anthony LaMontagne; Dr Humaira Maheen; Professor Gavin Turrell

Applying the newly developed Australian Gender Equality Index, this project aims to address gaps in understanding about gender inequalities across Australia.

Dr Johanna Knapp; Dr Jock McOrist; Professor Xenia de la Ossa; Professor Philip Candelas; Associate Professor Eirik Svanes

This project aims to uncover new connections between mathematical structures

Professor Tamara Kohn; Professor Michael Arnold; Professor Martin Gibbs; Dr Bjørn Nansen; Dr Hannah Harewood Gould; Associate Professor Elizabeth Hallam; Associate Professor Jed Brubaker

This project aims to investigate the emergence of contemporary do-it-yourself commemorative practices that are reshaping how people care for and mourn the dead in Australia.

Associate Professor Peter Koval; Professor Vassilis Kostakos; Associate Professor Niels van Berkel; Professor Peter Kuppens

This project aims to apply cutting-edge empirical dynamic modelling tools, developed by ecologists to characterise complex systems, to model emotions in the world's largest database of daily emotional experience.

Professor Dan Li; Dr Mengran Li

The project aims to develop new materials and experimental tools to probe and exploit the complex ionic microenvironment at electrochemical interfaces – a centrepiece of clean energy and sustainable technologies.

Professor Christina Lim; Professor Elaine Wong; Professor Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

The goal of this project is to develop photonic reservoir computing (PRC) as the bridging technology to enable cognitive capabilities in ultra-broadband wireless and radar/lidar systems.

Professor Zhe Liu

This project aims to unravel the pivotal role of the electrode/electrolyte interface water on key electrochemical properties in aqueous electrochemical systems by integrating state-of-the-art molecular simulation and experimental results.

Professor Simon Loertscher; Professor Leslie Marx

This project aims to refine the set of incomplete information models of industrial organization (Triple-IO) and develop a range of tools to evaluate the competitive effects of mergers, collusion, and related changes to market structure and firm conduct.

Professor Jason Mackenzie; Professor Peter White; Dr Alice McSweeney

This project aims to identify and exploit the molecular mechanisms of viral elements directing protein translation.

Professor Megan Maher; Professor Marilyn Anderson

This project will investigate the mechanisms of action of a newly discovered class of insecticidal proteins from ferns.

Professor Geoffrey McFadden; Dr Christopher Goodman

This project aims to investigate the molecular machinery that results in maternal inheritance of mitochondria and plastids in a unicellular microbe.

Professor Celia McMichael; Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar; Professor Karen McNamara; Dr Robin Bronen

The project will significantly advance knowledge of the factors that enable successful relocation of communities away from sites of climate risk.

Dr Iliana Medina; Professor Susan Healy; Dr Timothée Bonnet

This project aims to reveal how animal constructions will cope with the damaging effects of global warming.

Professor Dragan Nesic; Dr Romain Postoyan

This project will explore fundamental links between near-optimality and stability in multi agent systems.

Professor Tuan Ngo; Dr Tuan Nguyen; Professor Huu-Tai Thai; Professor Andrew Whittaker

This project aims to develop a novel steel-concrete composite vessel for molten salt (MS) energy storage.

Professor Emily Nicholson

This project aims to develop new science for effective monitoring of policies to halt and reverse loss of nature, in Australia and globally.

Associate Professor Benjamin Parker; Professor Natalie Sims; Dr Stephin Vervoort

Growth factors regulate the expression of our genes via intricate processes. Disruption of these processes is a major contributor to ageing . The aim of this project is to understand if manipulating new mechanisms can limit the degenerative effects of ageing.

Professor Michael Parker; Professor Angel Lopez; Professor Dr Jacob Piehler

This project aims to unravel missing molecular details of how a family of proteins, called the betacommon receptors, are able to signal across cell walls.

Dr Charlotte Petersen; Dr James Hutchison; Professor Paul Mulvaney; Professor Brendan Abrahams

This project aims to use theory to guide fabrication of a new range of metal 'nanoglasses’.

Professor Greg Qiao; Professor Kate Smith-Miles; Dr Elnaz Hajizadeh

This project aims to develop an automated and autonomous precision polymer synthesis platform..

Dr Shabih Shakeel; Associate Professor Andrew Deans

This project aims to understand how a molecular machine, called the dissolvasome, fixes tangled DNA to ensure error-free repair of damaged DNA by homologous recombination (HR), a critical process in all life forms.

Professor Michael Smith; Associate Professor David Nott; Professor David Frazier

Large statistical and econometric models that combine multiple modules, each representing different aspects of the problem or data, are emerging. However, their estimation presents many unsolved challenges. By extending innovations in machine learning and Bayesian analysis, this multidisciplinary project aims to develop new methodology to address these problems.

Professor Devi Stuart-Fox; Associate Professor Nanfang Yu; Assistant Professor Ahu Dumanli-Parry

This project aims to discover new ways that nature produces vivid colours using nano-structures and how these complex structures assemble from simple building blocks.

Associate Professor Laura Tarzia; Associate Professor Bianca Fileborn; Professor Deborah Loxton; Professor Heather Douglas; Dr Mandy McKenzie

This project explores the hidden problem of sexual violence against older women.

Professor Yinghui Tian; Professor Mark Cassidy; Dr Samuel Stanier

This project aims to address the geotechnical challenges to mooring offshore floating wind turbines onto Australian seabeds.

Professor Phillip Urquijo; Professor Eric Thrane

This project leads a new Australian program with the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment in Japan, the largest underground Cherenkov detector in the world.

Associate Professor Vihandha Wickramasinghe

This project aims to investigate how a new type of RNA, circular RNA, is regulated by advancing on ground-breaking work just published in the premier journal in science, Nature.

Professor Spencer Williams

This project aims to discover microbes that can grow on organosulfur molecules, identify the pathways used, elucidate the chemistry of the enzymes they exploit, and study their environmental distribution.

Associate Professor Ting Xue; Professor Kari Vilonen

In the recent years a large part of mathematics has been driven by the Langlands program. The aim of work proposed is to contribute to this program from our unique point of view.

Professor Sanming Zhou; Dr Binzhou Xia

This project aims to undertake an in-depth study of perfect codes in several important classes of Cayley graphs, with a focus on their existence, construction and connection with underlying groups.

Professor Jan de Gier; Associate Professor Sophie Hautphenne; Associate Professor Michael Wheeler

This project aims to address a key knowledge gap by developing and studying new integrable models for processes that (i) do not obey particle conservation and (ii) display population-dependent branching mechanisms such as in realistic reproduction dynamics.