Successful ARC Discovery Projects 2006

Listed below are the details of successful ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2006. If you have any queries please contact the Research Office on 02 9351 4469 or by e-mail:

Name
College
Host Faculty
Host Department/School
Title of project
Fellowship
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Dr Geraldine Barnes CHASS Arts English, Art History, Film and Media Writing from the edge of the world" medieval Icelandic literature and the quest for social identity   $94,092 $72,923 $91,157 $0 $0
Dr Mark Byron CHASS Arts English, Art History, Film and Media Textual Ontogeny and the understanding of Modernist Texts: A case study of Samuel Beckett's Novel Watt APD - Dr Mark Byron $59,557 $63,936 $61,147 $55,755 $0
Associate Professor Catharine Lumby CHASS Arts English, Art History, Film and Media The Well-Rounded Person: The Role of Sport in Shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development   $88,396 $105,000 $120,000 $105,578 $41,714
Dr Liam Semler CHASS Arts English, Art History, Film and Media Women's poetry and classicism in early modern England, 1500-1700   $55,059 $20,000 $31,620 $0 $0
Associate Professor Robert Aldrich CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Province, Nation, Empire: France, 1871 - 1940   $65,000 $25,000 $40,000 $0 $0
Dr Saliha Belmessous CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Assimilation and Empire APD - Dr Saliha Belmessous $85,000 $85,000 $90,000 $0 $0
Dr David Braddon-Mitchell CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Personal Identity, Consciousness and Agency APD - Dr Adina Roskies $120,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Dr Kate da Costa CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Drawing the line: the archaeology of Roman provincial borders in late Antique Palaestina and Arabia (AD250-650) APD - Dr Kate da Costa $109,000 $74,000 $84,000 $66,000 $0
Professor Moira Gatens CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry George Eliot: Literature as Experimental Philosophy APF - Dr Moira Gatens $115,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000
Associate Professor Ghassan Hage CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry The Western Nation-State, Cultural Pluralism and the Transnational Circulation of Political Emotions in the Shi a Lebanese Diaspora   $93,000 $51,000 $52,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Robert van Krieken CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Civilizing divorce: Social change, law and the transformation of parenthood   $35,000 $35,000 $70,000 $0 $0
Professor Richard White CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry Australians, motoring and the outside world   $74,000 $81,000 $88,000 $0 $0
Professor Shane White CHASS Arts Philosophical and Historical Inquiry The Making of Black Manhattan APF - ProfessorShane White $137,000 $143,000 $121,000 $133,000 $135,000
Professor Sid Gray CHASS Economics and Business Business Global convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards: factors explaining compliance with and impact of changing standards   $55,000 $40,000 $50,000 $0 $0
Professor Russell Lansbury CHASS Economics and Business Business Globalisation, Varities of Capitalism and Employment Relations: A Study of the Automobile Assembly and Retail Banking Industries in Seven Countries   $60,000 $40,000 $50,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Timothy Fisher CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science A Theoretical and Empirical Bankruptcyand Financial Reorganisation in Australia   $90,000 $32,000 $20,248 $0 $0
Professor Graeme Gill CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics in the Soviet Union and Russia APF - Professor Graeme Gill $150,000 $148,000 $148,000 $141,000 $120,000
Dr Mark Melatos CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science An economic anallysis of migration patterns in a regionally integrated world   $26,000 $20,000 $25,000 $0 $0
Professor Rohan Pitchford CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science Strategic Contracting with Complementary Assets under Assymetric Information   $40,000 $36,000 $39,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Rodney Tiffen CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science Media Change Political Change   $108,000 $80,000 $96,000 $78,000 $40,000
Professor Ian Marsh CHASS Economics and Business Graduate School of Government Neo-liberalism and the Decline of Democratic Governance: Aporblem of Institutional Design?   $76,000 $70,000 $70,000 $0 $0
Professor Peter Reimann CHASS Education Development and Learning Studying the use of machine learning and document analysis methodss to support English composition training   $90,000 $55,000 $55,000 $0 $0
Professor Hilary Astor CHASS Law   Managing Conflict in Higher Education   $42,000 $20,000 $0 $0 $0
Dr Belinda Bennett CHASS Law   Gender Inequities in Health Research: Towards a New Regulatory Framework   $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $0 $0
Professor Jennifer Hill CHASS Law   The subversion of contemporary performance based pay   $80,000 $65,000 $65,000 $0 $0
Dr Roger Magnusson CHASS Law   Lifestyle Wars: Law's role in responding to the challenges of non-communicable diseases   $47,000 $55,000 $54,000 $0 $0
Ms Rebecca Millar CHASS Law   GST and the Global Economy: Identifying the underlying causes of consumption tax conflicts affecting cross-border trade   $55,000 $40,000 $45,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Jenni Millbank CHASS Law   An International Comparitive Analysis of Refugee Decision-Making   $100,000 $80,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Professor Patrick Parkinson CHASS Law   Relocation after parental separation and the best interests of children   $130,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Professor Richard Charteris CHASS Sydney Conservatorium of Music   Transformations from Renaissance to Baroque: The Cultural and Musical Significance of Giovanni Gabrielle   $43,626 $46,779 $48,074 $49,697 $51,400
Associate Professor Dianna Kenny CHASS Sydney Conservatorium of Music   Providing a theoretical and empirical foundation for the role of technical practive in the acquisition of musical mastery   $55,000 $45,000 $45,000 $0 $0
Professor Mark Onslow CHS Health Sciences Australian Stuttering Centre Establishing the relationship between anxiety and stuttering   $80,000 $60,000 $70,000 $0 $0
Dr Stephen Meikle CHS Health Sciences Medical Radiation Sciences New Imaging Instrumentation and Algorithms for the Simultaneous Measurement of Multiple Radio-labbelled Probes in vivo   $172,889 $169,926 $183,938 $0 $0
Professor Michael Davies CHS Medicine Central Clinical School Mechanisms and consequences of oxidation of glycosaminoglycans, proteins and proteoglycans by myeloperoxidase-derived oxidants APD - Dr Martin Rees $132,000 $110,000 $110,000 $0 $0
Professor John McAvoy CHS Medicine Central Clinical School Understanding lens aging: the molecular basis of presbyopia   $140,000 $80,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Alison Kesson CHS Medicine Childrens Hospital Westmead Regulation of MHC-I and ICAM-1 by flavivirus, West Nile   $94,000 $84,000 $84,000 $0 $0
Prof Maxwell Bennett CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Mechanism of Transmission of calcium by Glial Cells   $100,000 $82,000 $82,000 $0 $0
Professor Roger Dampney CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Central command neurons integrating cardiorespiratory drive in exercise   $100,000 $65,000 $65,000 $0 $0
Professor Brian Morris CHS Medicine Medical Sciences Function of a new splicing factor, RBM4   $104,000 $94,000 $94,000 $0 $0
Dr Carolyn Mountford CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School Development of Novel Two-dimensional Techniques for In-vivo Spectroscopy   $160,000 $120,000 $140,000 $0 $0
Dr Beric Henderson CHS Medicine Western Clinical School Characterisation of APC intracellular trafficking pathways   $91,000 $84,000 $84,000 $0 $0
Professor Mary Lou Maher CST Architecture   Curious Places: Agent-Mediated Self-Aware Worlds   $105,000 $75,000 $75,000 $0 $0
Dr Anya Salih CST Electron Microscope Unit   Development of novel fluorescent proteins from marine organisms for in vivo fluorescence imaging technologies and cancer research   $75,000 $65,000 $65,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Steven Armfield CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Stability, transition and heat transfer in thermally coupled natural convection boundary layers   $220,000 $170,000 $180,000 $0 $0
Dr Wei Li CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Effects of prosthesis design on bone remodelling and longevity of dental restorations APD - Dr Wei Li $130,000 $110,000 $110,000 $0 $0
Dr Jun Ma CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering High performance epoxy by using Nano-hybrid APD - Dr Jun Ma $95,000 $95,000 $95,000 $0 $0
Dr Salah Sukkarieh CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Data Fusion for Self-Localisation and Team Situational Awareness in Unknown Structured Environments   $120,000 $25,000 $25,000 $0 $0
Professor Roger Tanner CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Nano-Rheology and Nano-Tribology: Atomistic Simulation of Boundary Lubrication   $140,000 $110,000 $110,000 $0 $0
Professor Liyong Tong CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Shape adaptive structures with built-in compact smart material based actuators   $105,000 $85,000 $85,000 $0 $0
Dr Nam Maiduy CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Meshless, Numerical Modelling for Polymer Processing APD - Dr Nam Mai-Duy $80,000 $80,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Baolin Wang CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Some Outstanding Mechanics Problems in Layered Ferroelectromagnetic Composites with Enhanced Magnetoelectric Effect   $140,000 $120,000 $130,000 $100,000 $0
Dr Andrew Harris CST Engineering Chemical Engineering Selective generation of hydrogen from biomass and waster fuels   $100,000 $80,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Howard See CST Engineering Chemical Engineering Development of constitutive models for concentrated suspensions via particle level simulations   $95,000 $80,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor David Airey CST Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanics of Dynamic loading and rapid penetration of soils   $208,000 $160,000 $180,000 $140,000 $100,000
Dr Craig Jin CST Engineering Electrical and Information Engineering Broadcasting 3D Audio: Recording, Transmission, and Playback QEII - Dr Craig Jin $208,000 $106,000 $86,000 $90,000 $90,000
Professor Robert Minasian CST Engineering Electrical and Information Engineering Novel coherence-free photonic microwave signal processors   $160,000 $160,000 $155,000 $0 $0
Professor Simon Fleming CST Optical Fibre Technology Centre   New all-optical logic gates with high functionality for future optical communications and signal processing systems   $120,000 $120,000 $105,000 $0 $0
Dr Stuart Jackson CST Optical Fibre Technology Centre   The creation and opimisation of new optical fibres and novel diode-pumped fibre lasers for applications in medicine, defence and the environment   $113,000 $101,000 $121,000 $0 $0
Dr Katja Lyytikainen CST Optical Fibre Technology Centre   Complex Dopant Diffusivity in Photonic Crystal Fibres and Applications APD - Dr Katja Lyytikainen $110,000 $125,000 $120,000 $0 $0
Dr Martijn van Eijkelenborg CST Optical Fibre Technology Centre   Nano-sized, functional, organic and inorganic inclusions in microstructured polymer fibers   $160,000 $120,000 $120,000 $0 $0
Dr Fabien Aubret CST Science Biological Sciences Does adaptive plasticity play a significant role in the initial colonisation of novel habitats? APD - Dr Fabien Aubret $145,000 $115,000 $115,000 $0 $0
Dr Maura Chapman CST Science Biological Sciences Identifying and Creating Essential Habiata for Rare Australian Intertidal Molluscs   $40,000 $60,000 $39,000 $0 $0
Dr Min Chen CST Science Biological Sciences New Chlorophylls and New Directions in Photosynthesis APD - Dr Tom Bibby $160,000 $130,000 $130,000 $0 $0
Dr Mike Letnic CST Science Biological Sciences Do dingoes regulate the structure of arid ecosystems? APD - Dr Mike Letnic $110,000 $110,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Ben Oldroyd CST Science Biological Sciences Solving Darwin's dilemma: Molecular analysis of worker sterility in social insects   $182,000 $147,000 $147,000 $0 $0
Prof Stephen Simpson CST Science Biological Sciences On the move: the study of self-organised movement of animal groups with and without leadership   $190,000 $155,000 $155,000 $0 $0
Professor Alan Underwood CST Science Biological Sciences Connecting ecological processes to understand variation across spatial scales APF - Prof Alan Underwood $249,237 $234,000 $234,000 $234,000 $234,000
Professor Robert Gilbert CST Science Chemistry Molecular archaeology: new knowledge from molecular weight distributions of synthetic and natural polymers   $194,000 $124,000 $124,000 $0 $0
Professor Trevor Hambley CST Science Chemistry Functionalised MMP Inhibitors as Radiodiagnostic, Radiotherapeutic, and Radiation-Sensitising Agents for Metastatic Cancer   $92,000 $130,000 $120,000 $0 $0
Professor Margaret Harding CST Science Chemistry Synthesis and applications of Antifreeze Proteins and Glycoproteins   $140,000 $130,000 $130,000 $0 $0
Dr Meredith Jordan CST Science Chemistry The first chemically accurate tools in theoretical materials research ARF - Dr Meredith Jordan $140,000 $125,000 $125,000 $125,000 $125,000
Associate Professor Cameron Kepert CST Science Chemistry Molecular Framework Materials: Nanoporosity and anomalous thermal expansion   $148,000 $123,000 $130,000 $0 $0
Professor Peter Lay CST Science Chemistry Nanoprobe and Microprobe Structural and Spectroscopic Studies in Biomedical Research   $125,000 $114,000 $103,000 $0 $0
Professor Leonard Lindoy CST Science Chemistry Metal Directed Assembly of New Supramolecular Systems   $100,000 $95,000 $95,000 $0 $0
Dr Dr Ling CST Science Chemistry Platinum-group Metal Oxides with Modulated Crystal Structures: Flexible Frameworks Designed for Geometrically Frustrated Magnetism   $80,000 $45,000 $50,000 $0 $0
Professor Thomas Maschmeyer CST Science Chemistry Molecular Recognition in chiral ionic liquids   $160,000 $105,000 $115,000 $0 $0
Dr Malcolm McLeod CST Science Chemistry Elucidating the mode of Action of Nicotinic Receptor Ligands   $95,000 $90,000 $90,000 $0 $0
Dr Bauke Nauta CST Science Chemistry Superfluid helium nanodroplets: a unique matrix for molecular spectroscopy ARF - Dr Bauke Nauta $130,000 $130,000 $130,000 $103,000 $103,000
Associate Professor Jeffrey Reimers CST Science Chemistry Molecular Electronics Principles and Applications APF - Professor Jeffrey Reimers $231,000 $240,000 $250,000 $256,000 $254,000
Dr Timothy Schmidt CST Science Chemistry Laser Spectroscopy of Moleculor Electronic Components   $150,000 $95,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Dr Timothy Schmidt CST Science Chemistry Optical Spectroscopy of Extraterrestrial Molecules   $134,000 $91,000 $98,000 $0 $0
Dr Pall Thordarson CST Science Chemistry Light-activated Bioconjugates for Application in Synthesis and Biosensors ARF - Dr Pall Thordarson $240,000 $120,000 $120,000 $120,000 $150,000
Dr William Pritchard CST Science Geosciences Indian agricluture in the 21st century: The political economy of market reforms   $20,000 $30,000 $55,000 $0 $0
Dr Ofer Gal CST Science History and Philosophy of Science The imperfection of the Universe: Music Mathematics, Technology and the dis-(order) of Nature in Baroque Science   $120,000 $30,000 $90,000 $0 $0
Professor Dagan Feng CST Science Information Technologies Information Technology Aided Diagnosis of Dementia wigh PET-CT Imaging   $141,000 $111,473 $115,473 $132,000 $135,000
Professor Albert Zomaya CST Science Information Technologies A grid-enabled meta server for protein threading   $130,000 $117,000 $119,000 $0 $0
Dr James Curran CST Science Information Technologies Exploiting Scientific Information with Question Answering APD - Dr Tara Murphy $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $0
Dr Selvakennedy Selvadurai CST Science Information Technologies Distributed Data Processing for Wireless Sensor Networkers   $100,000 $25,000 $25,000 $0 $0
Dr Andrew Mathas CST Science Mathematics and Statistics Building and Hecke Algebras   $101,000 $91,000 $93,000 $0 $0
Dr Georg Gottwald CST Science Mathematics and Statistics Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in Cardiac Physiology   $80,000 $67,000 $69,000 $0 $0
Dr Nalini Joshi CST Science Mathematics and Statistics New Directions in Non-linear Mathematical Asymptotics   $88,000 $78,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Rosemary Thompson CST Science Mathematics and Statistics Material boundaries in ultrasonics: New methods and in vito studies in biomedical phantoms   $95,000 $90,000 $90,000 $0 $0
Dr Ruibin Zhang CST Science Mathematics and Statistics Infinite dimensional unitarizable representations of Lie superalgearas   $70,000 $70,000 $70,000 $0 $0
Dr Stuart Cordwell CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences Characterising post-translational modifications in bacterial proteins   $88,000 $75,000 $75,000 $0 $0
Dr Jules Guss CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences The structure and function of dihydroorotase - an enzyme essential for pyrimidine biosynthesis   $86,000 $80,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Ann Kwan CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences Zink finger domains as scaffolds for protein engineering APD - Dr Ann Kwan $110,000 $89,000 $89,000 $0 $0
Dr Joel Mackay CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences Structuring and Function of a New Class of Multi Zinc-Finger (mzf) proteins   $200,000 $165,000 $165,000 $0 $0
Dr Jacqueline Matthews CST Science Molecular and Microbial Biosciences LIM-homeodomain Interactions in Neuronal Development   $120,000 $106,000 $106,000 $0 $0
Professor Marcela Bilek CST Science Physics Design and synthesis of transparent conducting metal oxides APD - Dr Sunnie Lim $200,000 $160,000 $160,000 $160,000 $0
Dr Scott Croom CST Science Physics Quasar Cosmology QEII - Dr Scott Croom $120,000 $145,000 $145,000 $145,000 $120,000
Professor Ben Eggleton CST Science Physics Efficient and tailored supercontinuum generation using dispersion management   $254,684 $193,766 $192,778 $201,516 $0
Professor Roger Fulton CST Science Physics Enabling Technologies for Motion Corrected Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of Unanaesthetized Laboratory Animals   $163,000 $121,000 $124,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Anne Green CST Science Physics Neutral hydrogen and galaxy assembly in the distant Universe   $178,000 $168,000 $120,000 $0 $0
Dr Boris Kuhlmey CST Science Physics ARROW - the route to better Photonic Crystal Fibres APD - Dr Boris Kuhlmey $74,340 $74,340 $74,340 $0 $0
Professor David McKenzie CST Science Physics Novel Carbon Coatings for Exceptional Performance   $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Professor Ross McPhedran CST Science Physics Optical Nano-plasmonics APF - Professor Ross McPherdran $153,000 $160,000 $160,000 $160,000 $160,000
Dr Serguei Vladimirov CST Science Physics Complex plasmas: self-organised "dusty" matter from nanotechnology to astrophysics APF - Dr Serguei Vladimirov $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000 $235,000
Professor Sally Andrews CST Science Psychology Lexical expertise and reading skill: An experimental analysis of individuals   $62,500 $67,400 $72,600 $0 $0
Dr Derek Arnold CST Science Psychology Motion and Spatial Coding in Vision APD - Dr Derek Arnold $120,000 $100,000 $100,000 $0 $0
Professor Ian Curthoys CST Science Psychology Functional Assessment of Head-eye Coordination during Driving APD - Dr Hamish MacDougal $90,000 $85,000 $80,000 $0 $0
Dr Justin Harris CST Science Psychology The Influence of/Interactions between Vision on/and Touch   $130,000 $100,000 $110,000 $0 $0
Dr Ian Johnston CST Science Psychology Central nervous system cytokines and morphine analgesia   $60,000 $50,000 $50,000 $0 $0
Associate Professor Iain McGregor CST Science Psychology Learning about threats: the neural and behavioural response to predator-related cues in rodents   $50,000 $45,000 $52,000 $0 $0
Dr Lisa Zadro CST Science Psychology Developing strategies to ameliorate the aversive effects of ostracism   $80,000 $55,000 $65,000 $0 $0
Dr Katherine Belov CST Veterinary Science   Characterization of the tammar wallaby MHC   $80,000 $70,000 $70,000 $0 $0