Postdoctoral research fellows
The University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships were established in 1996 to support excellence in full-time research undertaken in any Department or School at the University.
The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and highly competitive internationally in line with equivalent externally funded fellowships.
Current postdoctoral research fellows
2012
Dr Simone Bignall (Arts and Social Sciences)
Project: Building political community: the affective sources of conflict and cohesion
Dr Brendon Brewer (Science)
Project: Answering the Hard Questions: Massive Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics
Dr Alain Chong (Business)
Project:Determinants of Open E-Business Standards development and adoption in humanitarian supply chain management: A Multi-analytical approach
Dr Julie Leask (Medicine)
Project: Improving communication about immunisation through social sciences research
Dr Alexandra Martiniuk (Medicine)
Project: Decision-making for improved health services in disadvantaged contexts: focusing on neurological/mental health
Dr Seyed Javad Mousavi (Health Sciences)
Project: Motor Control and Low Back Pain
Dr Hoa Nguyen (Education & Social Work)
Project: Understanding Pre-service teachers’ learning to teach during the professional experience in Australia: A sociocultural perspective
Mr Neil Portman (Veterinary Science)
Project: Analysis of the intracytoplasmic flagellar assembly to understand parasitism
Dr Ginu Rajan (Engineering & Information Technologies)
Project: Biomedical Devices Integrated with Micro-structured Fiber Sensors for Interaction Force Measurements and in-vivo Bio-sensing
Dr Aaron Rosen (Arts and Social Sciences)
Project: The Hospitality of Images: Modern Art and Interfaith Dialogue
Dr Peter Roth (Science)
Project: Novel smart materials: Development of positively thermo-responsive polymers for biomedical applications
Dr Miriama Young (Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
Project: Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Technology
2010
Christina Alt (School of Letters, Art, and Media)
Project: Early Ecology and literary modernism
Victor Dan Boantza (History and Philosophy of Science)
Project: From Scientific Revolutions to crises in science: Reappraising the rise of modern chemistry
Matthew Brandley (Biological Sciences)
Project: Gene expression and the evolution of viviparity and the placenta in reptiles
Rachael Briggs (School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry)
Project: Group deliberation: balancing consensus and truth
Deanna D'Alessandro (School of Chemistry)
Project: Redox- and Photo- Active Metal-Organic Frameworks: Physical properties and application in gas separations
Baoping Li (Archaeology)
Project: Chinese ceramics throughout Angkor: Date, origin and implications for the operation and demise of Angkor
Bibhash Nath (Geosciences)
Project: Trace metal behaviour in the wetland soils and sediments- physical versus biochemical processes
Fleur Ponton (Biological Sciences)
Project: Nutritional immunology: a new frontier in biology
Suraj Chandra Sharma (Chemistry)
Project: Phase behavior and formation of highly concentrated emulsions in eco-friendly surfactant system
Hua Wei (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
Project: Engineering of novel ferrocene-based cross-linked hybrid intelligent micelles with anti-tumor efficacy for drug delivery
2009
Rahena Akhter (Faculty of Dentistry)
Project: Jaw Muscle Pain and Jaw Motor Function
Hisatomi Arima (The George Institute for International Health)
Project: Assessing broader beneficial effects of blood pressure (BP) lowering on dementia outcomes and in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
Fabienne Brilot-Turville (Paediatrics & Child Health: Children's Hospital)
Project: Pathogenic autoantibodies to native myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein in paediatric central nervous system inflammatory demyelination
Adrian Hearn (Sociology and Social Policy)
Project: Refashioning the Pacific Rim: China's Cooperative Programs with Latin America
Luke Hunter (Chemistry)
Project: Selective fluorination chemistry: a conformational tool to enhance the synthesis and properties of biologically active cyclic peptides
Hyun Jin Kim (School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry)
Project: Foreigners and Otherness in Ancient Cosmopolitan Empires; A comparative study of Rome and Han China
Xin Liu (School of Mathematics & Statistics)
Project: Topological Problems in Quantum Field Theory
Kristie Miller (Philosophy)
Project: Fundamental ways the world could be: challenging metaphysical orthodoxy
Giang Nguyen (Civil Engineering)
Project: A non-local approach to the modelling of rock fracture
Blanca Tovias de Plaisted
Project: Native Women and Frontier Colonialisms: First nations of the Northern Plains of North America, 1730-1930
Shujun Wang (Agriculture)
Project: Structural and functional analyses of C-type starch granules and interactions bewteen amylopectin and suitable ligand molecules and application for retention of aroma compounds
2008
James East (School of Mathematics and Statistics)
Project: Coxeter Groups, inverse semigroups, and presentations
Nicolas Fossat
Project: Formation of the definitive endoderm and implication in head development
Florian Girelli (Physics)
Project: Quantum reference frames in quantum gravity and quantum information theory
Michael Jakuba (Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering)
Project: Efficient multiple plume source search
Angelina Lay (Centenary Institute)
Project: Role of sphingosine kinase-1 in the function of endthelial progenitor cells in diabetes
Gregory Madsen (School of Physics)
Project: Interstellar Ionised gas and the evolution of galaxies