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Twenty-seven ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide researchers have collectively received more than $10.8 million in funding from the Federal Government to further their work in diverse areas that will impact on people’s lives in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and globally.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Anton Middelberg, said: “This highly-competitive funding highlights the breadth and depth of fundamental work performed by ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide researchers.Ìý

“The topics emphasise the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s commitment to investigator-led research that is also aimed at delivering long term benefits to the economy and to society. Today’s funding announcement is further evidence of how the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ is helping to shape the future of our nation and its knowledge base.â€�

“The topics emphasise the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥â€™s commitment to investigator-led research that is also aimed at delivering long term benefits to the economy and to society,"Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Anton Middelberg

The 2020 ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects are:

$350,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Gavin Rowell
The Dawn of Extreme Gamma Ray Astronomy

$550,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Christian Doonan
Advancing the Chemistry of Metal-organic Frameworks for Biotechnology

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Andrei Kotooussov
Theory and methods for evaluation of microstructural fatigue damage

$578,000 awarded to Professor Shaobin Wang
Catalytic Degradation of Emerging Microplastic Pollutants

$540,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Maziar Arjomandi
Micro-perforation for passive drag reduction

$507,438 awarded to a team led by Professor Mathai Varghese
Coarse Geometry: a novel approach to the Callias index & topological matter

$157, 699 awarded to a team led by Professor Sarah Wheeler
Consequences of water reform and changing farm adaptation in the Basin

$510,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Anthony Roberts
Modelling, Mathematical Analysis, and Computation of Multiscale Systems

$390,000 awarded to Professor Chunhua Shen
Deep Learning that Scales

$297,621 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor John Semmler
Reconnecting the ageing brain to enhance plasticity and motor learning

$320,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Stijn Glorie
A detrital apatite archive to track crustal growth

$420,000 awarded to Associate Professor Jonathan George
New Discoveries in Organic Synthesis Inspired by the Efficiency of Nature

$390,000 awarded to Professor Derek Abbott
An advanced framework for multi-agent strategic interactions

$380,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Yvonne Stokes
Prediction of inertial particle focusing in curved microfluidic ducts

$464,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Jonathan Tyler
East Asian Monsoon response to periods of abrupt global change

$200,135 awarded to a team led by Dr Timothy Legrand
The Proscription of Terrorist Organisations in Illiberal States

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Ian Reid
Active Visual Navigation in an Unexplored Environment

$349,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Luke Bennetts
Empowering next-generation sea-ice models with wave–ice mathematics

$450,000 awarded to Associate Professor Tara Pukala
Revealing molecular detail of DNA triplexes to underpin antigene technology

$330,000 awarded to Associate Professor Paul Jackson
Multi-messenger particle physics: Hunting for Leptoquarks

$370,000 awarded to Dr Tat-Jun Chin
New Paradigms for Robust Fitting: Kernelisation and Polyhedral Search

$450,000 awarded to a team led by Associate Professor Sanjeeva Balasuriya
Uncertainties in coherent transport of particles and intrinsic properties

$240,000 awarded to a team led by Dr Firmin Sabro Doko Tchatoka
Selection of mixed strength moment restrictions and optimal inference

$460,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Hugh Harris
Characterisation of the beneficial vs toxic forms of selenium in the diet

$570,000 awarded to a team led by Professor Bruce Dawson
Understanding the nature and origin of the highest energy cosmic rays
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