Successful ARC Discovery Projects 2008
Listed below are the details of successful ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2008. If you have any queries please contact the Research Office on 02 9351 4469 or by e-mail: research@usyd.edu.au
| Name | Former College | Host Faculty | Host Dept/School | Title of project | Fellowship | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Michele Ford | HASS | Arts | Languages & Culture | From Migrant to Worker: New Transnational Responses to Temporary Labour Migration in East and Southeast Asia | $49,763 | $68,000 | $60,000 | |||
| Dr William Christie | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | A Critical investigation into the Life and Writings of Francis Jeffery (1773-1850) | $59,437 | $92,987 | $55,386 | |||
| Professor Margaret Harris | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | Patrick White in the twenty-first Century | $98,328 | $114,815 | $122,421 | |||
| Dr Jane Simpson | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | Understanding Indonesian: developing a machine-usable grammar, dictionary and corpus | $96,000 | $76,000 | $97,000 | |||
| Dr Gerard Goggin | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media & Youth Culture in Australia | APD - Ms KJ Crawford | $136,615 | $120,480 | $140,000 | ||
| Professor James Martin | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | Enacting Reconciliation: Negotiating Meaning in Youth Justice Conferencing | APD - Ms MS Zappavigna | $95,000 | $97,000 | $67,000 | $58,986 | |
| Professor John Clark | HASS | Arts | Letters, Art & Media | The Asian Modern | APF - Prof JA Clark | $105,000 | $105,000 | $130,000 | $110,000 | $85,000 |
| Professor Warwick Anderson | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Racial Laboratories and Reproductive Frontiers: The Twentieth-Century Sciences of Human Hybridity | $55,000 | $50,000 | $50,000 | |||
| Dr Emma Christopher | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Sierra Leone and Australia: a case of the vanishing twin | $90,000 | $45,000 | $50,000 | |||
| Professor Mark Colyvan | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Ethics and Formal Theories of Decision | $40,000 | $34,000 | $26,000 | |||
| Dr Nicholas Eckstein | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: the Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century | $140,000 | $65,000 | $40,000 | |||
| Professor Duncan Ivison | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | The uneasy alliance between democracy and justice | $49,932 | $49,540 | $50,354 | $52,234 | ||
| Professor Huw Price | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Decoherence,Time-Assymmetry and the Bohmian View on the Quantum World | $64,000 | $60,000 | $84,000 | |||
| Dr Stephen Robertson | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Private Eyes and Ears: Covert Surveillance in American Life, 1865-1941 | $50,572 | $32,312 | $32,500 | |||
| Dr Nicholas Smith | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | A Computational Solution to the Problem of Reference | $42,972 | $22,000 | $20,000 | |||
| Associate Professor Alison Betts | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | To paint fair nature, by divine command: a study of a newly discovered corpus of early Central Asian wall paintings | APD - Dr FJ Kidd | $140,000 | $130,000 | $130,000 | $125,000 | |
| Dr Melissa Carter | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | With or without pots: Investigating the archaeology of human settlement on Santa Isabel, western Soloman Islands | APD - Dr MJ Carter | $85,000 | $80,000 | $60,000 | $58,986 | |
| Mr Damian Evans | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Hydraulic Systems and State Development in Early Cambodia: Mapping the Engineered Landscapes of Khmer Using Remote Sensing | APD - Mr DH Evans | $95,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 | ||
| Professor Paul Griffiths | HASS | Arts | Philisophical and Historical Inquiry | Postgenomic perspectives on human nature | ARF - Dr K Stotz | $112,630 | $104,626 | $201,000 | $124,926 | $98,643 |
| Associate Professor Murali Agastya | HASS | Economics & Business | Choice and Classification in either complex or adversarial environments | $62,000 | $40,000 | $46,000 | ||||
| Dr Louise Chappell | HASS | Economics & Business | Achieving Gender Justice: national implementation of the gender provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | $50,000 | $50,000 | $70,000 | ||||
| Professor Steven Elliot | HASS | Economics & Business | Developing and Managing Sustainable Technology-Enabled Innovation Capabilities: An information Systems Approach | $95,000 | $90,000 | $85,000 | ||||
| Associate Professor Jeffery Sheen | HASS | Economics & Business | Noisy Parity Relationships in International Macroeconomic Models | $82,000 | $55,000 | $20,000 | ||||
| Professor Frederick Teiwes | HASS | Economics & Business | The Post-Mao Transition in China: From the Ashes of Revolution toward Reform, 1976-1978 | $63,000 | $50,000 | $50,000 | ||||
| Professor Alan Woodland | HASS | Economics & Business | International Trade Policy Evaluation, Economic Growth and Demographics | APF - Prof AD Woodland | $172,205 | $167,348 | $173,935 | $179,285 | $155,285 | |
| Dr Miguel Figliozzi | HASS | Economics & Business | Modelling the Environmental impacts of Commercial Vehicle Tours & Freight Management Policies in Urban Areas | $62,568 | $66,774 | $71,112 | ||||
| Dr Elizabeth Cowley | HASS | Economics & Business | Reducing irresponsible gambling: Changing a justification to an avoidance strategy | APD - Miss C Ioannou | $105,000 | $104,000 | $118,000 | |||
| Associate Professor Brian Paltridge | HASS | Education & Social Work | Education & Social Work | Writing in the academy: the practice-based thesis as an evolving genre | $70,000 | $70,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Professor Patricia Apps | HASS | Law | A Lifecycle Approach to Labour Supply, Human Capital Accumulation and Public Policy | $63,198 | $69,193 | $75,547 | ||||
| Professor Ronald McCallum | HASS | Law | Workplace Death and Injury: Re-visiting the Regulatory Impact of Prosecution and Deterrance | $91,694 | $126,674 | $126,869 | ||||
| Associate Professor Cheryl Jones | HS | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | The effect of age on regulatory T cell control of the innate and adaptive antiviral immune response | $106,000 | $106,000 | $106,000 | |||
| Professor Kathryn North | HS | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | Molecular dissection of the effects of alpha-actinin-3 deficiency on normal variation in skeletal muscle function | $119,188 | $119,188 | $119,188 | |||
| Dr James Wood | HS | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | Modelling and estimation techniques for the transmission and control of Tuberculosis with new and existing vaccines. | $75,000 | $72,000 | $69,000 | |||
| Dr Charles Allan | HS | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Steriodal control of male meiosis | $82,642 | $82,642 | $82,642 | |||
| Dr Paul Witting | HS | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Cellular response to pro-oxidative myoglobin | $140,000 | $140,000 | $140,000 | |||
| Professor Maxwell Bennett | HS | Medicine | Medical Sciences | Neuron-microglia signalling mechanisms | $110,000 | $110,000 | $110,000 | |||
| Professor Maria Byrne | HS | Medicine | Medical Sciences | Development and calcification in benthic marine invertebrates (Mollusca and Echinodermata) in an acidified and warm ocean | $115,930 | $78,186 | $75,388 | |||
| Associate Professor Simon Carlile | HS | Medicine | Medical Sciences | Acoustic, spatial and informational cues to solve the cocktail party problem | $40,000 | $35,000 | $35,000 | |||
| Dr Mark Connor | HS | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Anandamide activated chloride channels in sensory neurons | $85,000 | $85,000 | $85,000 | |||
| Dr Kim Felmingham | HS | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Emotion Regulation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | $85,968 | $62,000 | $62,000 | |||
| Dr Beric Henderson | HS | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Mitochondrial targeting of the DNA repair protein BARD1 | $88,000 | $88,000 | $88,000 | |||
| Dr Paul Young | HS | Pharmacy | Engineering of co-crystal drug molecules for pharmaceutical aerosols | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||||
| Dr Budiman Minasny | ST | Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources | Devising a methodology for the digital soil map of the world | QEII - Dr B Minasny | $220,000 | $200,000 | $200,000 | $130,000 | $130,000 | |
| Professor Allan Snyder | ST | Centre for the Mind | Evolving largest scale concept structures | $80,000 | $75,000 | $70,000 | ||||
| Dr Zongwen Liu | ST | Electron Microscope Unit | High Resolution In-Situ Characterisation of the Vapour-depositon Growth, the Structures and the Plasmonic Properties of Metallic Nanostructures | $100,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||||
| Dr Lilian Soon | ST | Electron Microscope Unit | A New Model for 3D Migration invovling claw structures and metalloproteinases | $80,000 | $80,000 | $80,000 | ||||
| Professor Yiu-Wing Mai | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Nanostructure Design and Toughening Mechanisms of Novel Thermosets | $170,000 | $160,000 | $160,000 | $140,000 | ||
| Professor Assaad Masri | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Investigations of Surface-Gas Reactions and Mixing in Micro-combustion | $130,000 | $130,000 | $130,000 | |||
| Dr Stefan Williams | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Autonomous Exploration and Characterization of Benthic Habitats Linked to Oceanographic Processes | $49,000 | $45,000 | $40,000 | |||
| Professor Lin Ye | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Fundamental roles of nano-particles in CF/EP composites | $103,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||
| Professor Lin Ye | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Fundamentals of active sensor network for damage identification in engineering structures | $130,000 | $125,000 | $120,000 | |||
| Dr Li Chang | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Towards new generations of lubricants using nanoparticles | APD - Dr L Chang | $100,000 | $100,000 | $90,000 | ||
| Dr Thai Nguyen | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Developing a new technology: advanced surface hardening and grinding in a single operation | APD - Dr T Nguyen | $105,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | ||
| Mr Fabio Ramos | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | Learning from Uncertain and Missing labelling in Relational Data | APD - Mr FT Ramos | $78,648 | $78,648 | $78,648 | ||
| Professor Liangchi Zhang | ST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering | An Innovative Manufacturing Technology Enabling New Generations of Hip Joint Prosthesis | APF - Prof L Zhang | $390,000 | $390,000 | $340,000 | $380,000 | $360,000 |
| Dr Dylan Dah Chuan Lu | ST | Engineering | Electrical & Information Engineering | Theoretical study and experimental verification of low cost, integrated and efficient AC/DC power supplies using time-multiplexing control | $50,236 | $50,236 | $50,236 | |||
| Professor Vojin Oklobdzija | ST | Engineering | Electrical & Information Engineering | Design Methodology for Low- and Ultra- Low Power Integrated Circuits | $130,000 | $130,000 | $120,000 | $80,000 | ||
| Professor Branka Vucetic | ST | Engineering | Electrical & Information Engineering | Dynamic Spectrum Access in Multi-Hop Wireless Broadband Networks | QEII - Dr Y Li | $214,000 | $214,000 | $214,000 | $170,000 | $141,000 |
| Dr Floris van Schaik | ST | Engineering | Electrical & Information Engineering | Electronic Auditory Pathway | QEII - Dr FA van Schaik | $195,000 | $180,000 | $105,000 | $105,000 | $60,000 |
| Dr Seokhee Hong | ST | Engineering | Information Technologies | Algorithmics for Interactive 2.5D Graph Drawing | ARF - Dr S Hong | $70,000 | $65,000 | $60,000 | $60,000 | $49,322 |
| Dr Jinman Kim | ST | Engineering | Information Technologies | Innovative visualisation of next-generation biomedical images | APD - Dr J Kim | $58,986 | $58,986 | $88,000 | $84,000 | |
| Associate Professor Judy Kay | ST | Engineering | Information Technologies | Pervasive Lifelong User Modelling for User Controlled Personalisation and Augmented Cognition | ARF - A/Prof J Kay | $85,000 | $80,000 | $75,000 | $60,000 | $49,322 |
| Dr Alexander Argyros | ST | Engineering | Optical Fibre Technology Centre | Fabrication and design of spun and chiral microstructured fibres | $120,000 | $130,000 | $120,000 | |||
| Dr Maryanne Large | ST | Engineering | Optical Fibre Technology Centre | Liquid Light- aqueous bio-sensing in microstructured polymer optical fibres | $50,000 | $20,000 | $20,000 | |||
| Dr Clare McArthur | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | How do foraging herbivores negotiate the perils of plant toxins and predators? | $85,000 | $85,000 | $85,000 | |||
| Dr Andrew Parker | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | Optical Biometics of Diatoms | $135,000 | $134,000 | $129,000 | |||
| Dr Gregory Sword | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | The functional genomics of locust migratory behaviour | $203,000 | $213,000 | $203,000 | |||
| Associate Professor Michael Thompson | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | Plasticity in placental vasculature and the evolution of viviparity in lizards | $120,000 | $120,000 | $120,000 | |||
| Dr Madeleine Beekman | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | Understanding social cancers: Intra-specific parasitism by honeybee workers | QEII - Dr M Beekman | $140,000 | $120,000 | $120,000 | $120,000 | $120,000 |
| Dr Min Chen | ST | Science | Biological Sciences | The evolutionary transition fron anaerobic to aerobic metabolism | QEII - Dr M Chen | $160,000 | $160,000 | $160,000 | $160,000 | $160,000 |
| Dr Adam Bridgeman | ST | Science | Chemistry | New Strategies for Modelling Polyoxometalates | $104,599 | $105,791 | $100,000 | |||
| Professor John Canning | ST | Science | Chemistry | Laboratory in a Fibre | $220,000 | $190,000 | $170,000 | |||
| Dr Katrina Jolliffe | ST | Science | Chemistry | Novel Synthetic Receptors for Selective Recognition of Phosphate Oxoanions | $115,000 | $114,000 | $109,000 | |||
| Associate Professor Anthony Masters | ST | Science | Chemistry | Nanotherapeutics: nanoparticles with high specificity for the delivery and controlled release of drugs | $115,000 | $114,000 | $109,000 | |||
| Professor Gregory Warr | ST | Science | Chemistry | Kinetic Control of Nanomaterial Assembly by Novel Polymerisable Surfactants | $115,000 | $114,000 | $109,000 | |||
| Dr John Cannon | ST | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Integral lattices and their theta series | $130,000 | $120,000 | $110,000 | |||
| Professor Norman Dancer | ST | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Finite Morse index solutions of non-linear partial differential equations | $80,000 | $80,000 | $75,000 | |||
| Associate Professor Andrew Mathas | ST | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Modular representations of cyclotomic algebras | $88,000 | $83,000 | $78,000 | |||
| Dr Alexander Molev | ST | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Quantum algebras: their symmetries, invariants and representations | $80,000 | $75,000 | $70,000 | |||
| Dr Thomas Ferenci | ST | Science | Molecular & Microbial Biosciences | Evolutionary and ecological complexity in an experimentally controlled environment | $85,000 | $85,000 | $85,000 | |||
| Dr Andrew Holmes | ST | Science | Molecular & Microbial Biosciences | Bacterial monooxygenases as new biocatalysts | $80,000 | $80,000 | $80,000 | |||
| Professor Philip Kuchel | ST | Science | Molecular & Microbial Biosciences | NMR studies of complex cellular responses: isotopomer sub-spaces, 'lost' ATP and 'tunable' anisotropy | $169,000 | $167,000 | $164,000 | |||
| Dr Margaret Sunde | ST | Science | Molecular & Microbial Biosciences | A novel approach to fighting fungal infections: targeted disruption of hydrophobin monolayers | $82,838 | $81,264 | $80,149 | |||
| Dr Stephen Bartlett | ST | Science | Physics | Quantum-enhanced reference systems | $100,000 | $108,000 | $109,000 | |||
| Professor Iver Cairns | ST | Science | Physics | Wave localization and Burstiness in Type 111 Solar Radio Bursts | $175,000 | $150,000 | $145,000 | |||
| Professor Richard Hunstead | ST | Science | Physics | Massive Galaxies: tracers of extreme density peaks in the early universe | $120,000 | $110,000 | $100,000 | |||
| Dr Boris Kuhlmey | ST | Science | Physics | Ultra-sensitivity resonances in photonic bandgap fibres | $90,000 | $85,000 | $80,000 | |||
| Dr Serdar Kuyucak | ST | Science | Physics | Quantum mechanical and dynamical investigation of ion channels | $100,000 | $99,000 | $94,000 | |||
| Professor Donald Melrose | ST | Science | Physics | Quantum plasmas | $110,000 | $109,000 | $104,000 | |||
| Professor Peter Robinson | ST | Science | Physics | Quantitative dynamics of functional magnetic resonance imaging | $90,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | |||
| Dr Bruce Yabsley | ST | Science | Physics | A programme to study quarkonium-like states at ATLAS | ARF - Dr BD Yabsley | $125,000 | $124,000 | $119,000 | $110,000 | $110,000 |
| Dr Peter Tuthill | ST | Science | Physics | Multiplicity in Star and Planet Formation with the PAVO instrument | APD - Dr MJ Ireland | $140,000 | $164,000 | $109,000 | $90,000 | |
| Professor David McKenzie | ST | Science | Physics | Control of Protein Attachment and its Optical Detection | APF - Prof DR McKenzie | $170,000 | $170,000 | $170,000 | $160,000 | $120,000 |
| Dr Marc de Rosnay | ST | Science | Psychology | Fitting in and making friends: The psycho-social underpinnings of children's adaptation to school | $100,000 | $90,000 | $110,000 | $30,000 | ||
| Dr Irina Harris | ST | Science | Psychology | The ingredients of conscious identification | $120,000 | $92,000 | $92,000 | |||
| Dr Evan Livesey | ST | Science | Psychology | Attentional processes in Human Performance Learning | APD - Dr EJ Livesey | $68,000 | $65,000 | $68,000 | $65,000 | |
| Dr David Alais | ST | Science | Psychology | Human time perception: A crossmodel investigation | QEII - Dr DM Alais | $111,268 | $93,471 | $102,541 | $83,255 | $84,007 |