ARC Fellows in the Faculty of Science
ARC Fellowships - the richest publicly funded research fellowships offered in Australia - are part of a multi-billion dollar Federal government plan to establish Australia as a world-class research destination. The Faculty of Science is proud to currently host a number of ARC funded fellows.
Future Fellows | Laureate Fellows | Super Science Fellows | Federation Fellows
ARC Future Fellows
The ARC Future Fellowships scheme aims to promote research in areas of critical national importance by giving outstanding researchers incentives to conduct their research in Australia. The aim of Future Fellowships is to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers.
Current Future Fellows in the Faculty of Science:
- Thomas Maschmeyer (Chemistry)
Project: Sustainable Solar Hydrogen Production from Waste Water - Associate Professor Andrew Doherty (Physics)
Project: Quantum control in mesoscopic condensed matter systems - Dr Irina Harris (Psychology)
Project: Seeing the forest and the trees: Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying recognition of individual objects and sets - Associate Professor Georg Gottwald (Mathematics)
Project: Stochastic Methods in Mathematical Geophysical Fluid Dynamics - Dr Boris Kuhlmey (Physics)
Project: Ringed photonic crystal fibres for broadband nonlinear optics - Dr Jean Yee Yang (Mathematics)
Project: New statistical methods for identifying micro-ribonucleic acid (miRNA) regulatory networks - Dr Alex Holcombe (Psychology)
Project: Position perception, attention, object motion, and action - Professor Cameron Kepert (Chemistry)
Project: Functional molecular nanomaterials
Australian Laureate Fellows
The Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme supports excellence in research by attracting world-class researchers and research leaders to key positions, and creating new rewards and incentives for the application of their talents in Australia. They are open to applications from outstanding researchers of international repute.
Current Australian Laureate Fellows in the Faculty of Science:
- Professor Dietmar Muller (Geosciences)
Project: The Virtual Geological Observatory: a 4D view into the Earth through deep-time data-mining - Professor Bryan Gaensler (Physics)
Project: A Survey of the Universe's Magnetism - Professor Steve Simpson (Biological Sciences)
Project: Nutritional Dynamics: from Genes to Individuals to Ecosystems
ARC Super Science Fellows
The Super Science Fellowships are part of the Australian Government’s new $1.1 billion Super Science Initiative, which is helping to build a stronger higher education and innovation system for the 21st century. The aim of the Super Science Fellowships is to attract and retain outstanding early-career researchers in three key areas: space and astronomy; marine and climate; and future industries.
Current Super Science Fellows in the Faculty of Science:
- Professor Elaine Sadler, Professor Bryan Gaensler and Dr Tara Murphy (Physics)
Project: New Dimensions in Radio Astronomy: Mining Sparse Datasets with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder - Professor Maria Byrne and Dr Will Figueira (Biological Sciences)
Project: Machine Assisted, Multi-scale Spatial and Temporal Observation and Modeling of Marine Benthic Habitats - Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Associate Professor Scott Croom and Professor Geraint Lewis (Physics)
Project: Accretion and Feedback in Galaxies with Cosmic Time
ARC Federation Fellows
New funding for the ARC Federation Fellowships scheme ceased in 2008. It was part of a $3 billion Federal government plan to establish Australia as a world-class research destination.
Current Federation Fellows in the Faculty of Science:
- Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Physics)
Project: Astrophotonics: exploiting a new technological frontier to probe back to the Dark Ages - Professor Ben Eggleton (Physics)
Project: Photonic integrated circuits: Platform for fundamental science and applications - Professor Peter Robinson (Physics)
Project: Dynamics of Multiscale Complex Systems - Professor Peter Waterhouse (Molecular and Microbial Biosciences)
Project: The roles of small RNAs in plants