Media Release
GOVERNMENT FUNDING BRINGS TOP RESEARCHERS HOME
16 June 2004 MIN 740/04
I am pleased to announce 25 outstanding recipients of the Australian Government’s highly prestigious Federation Fellowships for 2004.
Almost $38 million will be provided through the Australian Research Council for these new Fellowships over the next five years. This significant investment means that we are able to attract some of the world’s best research talent to Australia, and offer opportunities for our world-leading researchers to continue their work here. Each Fellow will receive an indexed salary of around $235,000 for each of five years.
Of the 25 Fellowships awarded, 10 are to expatriate Australians who will leave esteemed international organisations to return home, and five are foreign nationals who will bring their experience and talent to Australia. Three of these will leave Oxford University, UK, and two will leave other institutions in the UK (the Universities of Bristol and Edinburgh), eight will move from institutions based in the USA (including: the Universities of Arizona, Maryland and Pittsburgh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Princeton University, RICE University, and the Washington University School of Medicine), and two will move from institutions in other countries (City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Groningen, Netherlands). Ten Fellowships have been awarded to resident Australians.
The 2004 Fellows are regarded as among the best in the world in their chosen fields. They are leading the world in areas such as: environmental change, multi-scale microstructure engineering, the role of metals in degenerative brain diseases (such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease), the development of logic and language in children, nanostructures for electronics and photonics applications, and computational problems.
The results of these research projects and their practical applications are likely to produce tangible long-term economic, environmental, social and cultural benefits for all Australians. The Federation Fellows will work in a wide range of research areas and will put Australia at the frontier of new and emerging research areas.
The Federation Fellowships are a vital part of the Australian Government’s $5.3 billion Backing Australia’s Ability innovation package, and are funded through the Australian Research Council’s National Competitive Grants Programme. Up to 25 Fellowships are available to be awarded each year.
A list of the Federation Fellowship recipients for 2004 is attached.
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Helen Cooper, Australian Research Council: 0412 113 868
Federation Fellows, 2004
Professor Mark Bradford: Advanced analysis, behaviour and design of steel and steel-concrete composite engineering structures subjected to elevated temperatures. Current institution: The University of New South Wales. Host institution: The University of New South Wales.
Professor Richard Brent: Exploring the Frontiers of Feasible Computation. Current institution: Oxford University. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Associate Professor Ashley Bush: The Role of Metals in the Biology of the Ageing Brain. Current institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, and the University of Melbourne. Host institution: The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria.
Professor David Chalmers: The contents of consciousness. Current institution: University of Arizona. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Professor Alan Cooper: Using ancient DNA to understand Australia's past and manage its future. Current institution: Oxford University. Host institution: The University of Adelaide.
Professor Stephen Crain: Logic and language: Foundations of cognitive growth. Current institution: University of Maryland. Host institution: Macquarie University.
Professor Simon Grant: Optimism, Pessimism and Confidence - Their economic impacts. Current institution: Rice University. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Professor Paul Griffiths: Biohumanities: Philosophical, Historical, and Socio-Cultural Studies of Contemporary Bioscience. Current institution: University of Pittsburgh. Host institution: University of Queensland.
Professor David Hill: Complex Networks: Dynamics, Optimisation and Control. Current institution: City University of Hong Kong. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Professor Peter Hodgson: Advanced products through multi-scale microstructure engineering. Current institution: Deakin University. Host institution: Deakin University.
Professor Ary Hoffman: Evaluating the adaptive potential of organisms to respond to environmental change. Current institution: La Trobe University. Host institution: The University of Melbourne.
Professor Stephen Hyde: Self-assembly and complexity: networks and patterns from materials to markets. Current institution: The Australian National University. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Professor Chennupati Jagadish: Ordered Semiconductor Nanostructures for Electronics and Photonics Applications. Current institution: The Australian National University. Host institution: The Australian National University.
Professor Alan Mark: Self-organisation in (bio) molecular systems: Simulating the folding and aggregation of peptides, proteins and lipids. Current institution: University of Groningen. Host institution: The University of Queensland.
Professor Michael Nielsen: Principles of Quantum Information Science. Current institution: The University of Queensland. Host institution: The University of Queensland.
Professor Philip Pettit: The Foundation, Role, and Design of Democracy. Current institution: Princeton University. Host institution: The University of Sydney.
Professor Leigh Simmons: The evolution of female mating frequency and its consequences. Current institution: The University of Western Australia. Host institution: The University of Western Australia.
Professor Stephen Simpson: Integrative behaviour: a new synthesis. Current institution: Oxford University. Host institution: The University of Sydney.
Professor Scott Sloan: Geostructural stability analysis with adaptive mesh refinement. Current institution: University of Newcastle. Host institution: University of Newcastle.
Professor Steven Smith: Metabolomic and genetic approaches to the discovery of genes that direct carbon partitioning in plants. Current institution: University of Edinburgh. Host institution: The University of Western Australia.
Professor Mathias Trau: Beyond Microarrays: Nano-Scaled Devices for High-Throughput Biomolecular Sensing. Current institution: The University of Queensland. Host institution: The University of Queensland.
Dr Jill Trewhella: Molecular Mechanisms of Biochemical Regulation: Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies. Current institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory. Host institution: The University of Sydney.
Associate Professor Howard Wiseman: Quantum Measurement, Control and Information: Forging Links to Underpin Quantum Technology. Current institution: Griffith University. Host institution: Griffith University.
Associate Professor Rachel Wong: Assembly of neural circuits during development. Current institution: Washington University School of Medicine. Host institution: The University of Queensland.
Professor Bernard Wood: Origin and Evolution of the Earth's Chemical Reservoirs. Current institution: University of Bristol. Host institution: Macquarie University.
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