Over $49m in research funding has been awarded to 72 Monash University research projects in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects scheme.
Research investigating safer AI, sustainable cities, and healthy ageing are just some of the funded projects, which cross STEM and HASS disciplines.
The ARC Discovery Projects scheme supports excellent basic and applied research and research training. It supports researchers to achieve economic, commercial, environmental, social and cultural benefits for Australia.
Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Senior Vice-President, Professor Mike Ryan, said the results reflect Monash's strengths in research across many fields and would enable groundbreaking research discoveries.
"We have a wide range of talent at Monash across many disciplines and this also really speaks to the importance and strength of discovery research. Thank you to the Australian Research Council for its continued support and congratulations to all the Chief Investigators and research teams involved.
The full list of Monash recipients are below. Details on their research projects can be found here.
Controlling magnetism and topology with an electric field |
Dr Mark Edmonds |
Faculty of Science |
Unified Model Building and Estimation in Dynamic Econometrics |
Prof Jiti Gao |
Faculty of Business & Economics |
Unravelling the secrets of tooth enamel: implications for human evolution |
A/Prof Luca Fiorenza |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Development of Allosteric and Bitopic Ligands to Tune Receptor Signalling |
Prof Peter Scammells |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Securing Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computation Against Active Attacks |
A/Prof Ron Steinfeld |
Faculty of Information Technology |
Encoding Material Agency: Generative Design for a Sustainable Future |
Prof Jon McCormack |
Faculty of Information Technology |
Advancing high resolution soil moisture and vegetation dynamics monitoring |
Prof Jeffrey Walker |
Faculty of Engineering |
Can Machines Unlearn? Toward Next-Generation Safe Artificial Intelligence |
Prof Dinh Phung |
Faculty of Information Technology |
Formal Explainability for Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence |
Prof Peter Stuckey |
Faculty of Information Technology |
Investigating how nuclear bodies may establish cellular memory |
Prof Kim Good-Jacobson |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
How does glacier retreat threaten mountain biodiversity? |
Prof Andrew Mackintosh |
Faculty of Science |
Mind bender: how neuroactive drug pollution impacts wildlife cognition |
Prof Bob Wong |
Faculty of Science |
Thinning of nature |
Prof Melodie McGeoch |
Faculty of Science |
Supply chain governance solutions for the gig economy |
Prof Dayna Simpson |
Faculty of Business & Economics |
Towards atomic scale magnetic field mapping and measurement |
A/Prof Scott Findlay |
Faculty of Science |
National Security Exceptions in International Trade and Investment Treaties |
A/Prof Caroline Henckels |
Faculty of Law |
Avant-Garde Kirchhoff's Laws Equivalent for Quantum Thermal Transistors |
Prof Malin Premaratne |
Faculty of Engineering |
X-ray Scatter Imaging: Vast Information with Minimal Radiation |
A/Prof Marcus Kitchen |
Faculty of Science |
A molecular investigation into marsupial T cell mediated immunity |
A/Prof JEROME LE NOURS |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Safeguarding posthumous digital data: understanding Australians' views |
Prof Alan Petersen |
Faculty of Arts |
As-printed titanium alloys with exceptional strain hardening |
Prof Aijun Huang |
Faculty of Engineering |
Internationalizing Epidemic Control in China, 1912 - 2022 |
A/Prof Xiaoping Fang |
Faculty of Arts |
Inducing essential bacterial enzymes to self-destruct |
Dr Stanley Cheng Xie |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Mitochondrial apoptosis signals more than death in innate immune cells |
A/Prof Kate Lawlor |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Simple one pot bioconjugation using a novel molecular glue |
A/Prof Angus Johnston |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Are Brain-Wide Activity Patterns Governed by Simple Connectivity? |
Prof Marcello Rosa |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Discovering the sustainable size of cities |
A/Prof Liton Kamruzzaman |
Faculty of Engineering |
Many ways to die: unveiling the hidden diversity in ageing |
A/Prof Christen Mirth |
Faculty of Science |
Dissecting the implications of endosymbiont interactions for host fitness |
Prof Damian Dowling |
Faculty of Science |
Graphene for energy harvesting from the night sky |
Prof Michael Fuhrer |
Faculty of Science |
An investigation into metabolite-mediated immunity |
Prof Jamie Rossjohn |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Assessing recovery in threatened Australian amphibians and reptiles |
Prof David Chapple |
Faculty of Science |
Neural mechanisms driving dynamic responses to fatigue |
A/Prof Trevor Chong |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Hierarchical nanostructure effects on Nanoparticle-M Cell Interactions |
Dr Jie Tang |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Deciphering the Intracellular Fate and Efficiency of mRNA Delivery |
A/Prof Angus Johnston |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Are lymphatics a regulator of skeletal muscle growth, metabolism & renewal? |
A/Prof Natalie Trevaskis |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Dissecting Nervous System Function One Neuron at a Time |
Prof Roger Pocock |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
The next great escape - how does mtDNA become extracellular? |
Dr Kate McArthur |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
A new mechanism of bacterial membrane defence against environmental stress |
Dr Meiling Han |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Energy efficient ammonia electrosynthesis |
A/Prof Alexandr Simonov |
Faculty of Science |
Australia's Shared Responsibility for Pacific Climate Refugees |
A/Prof Stephanie Collins |
Faculty of Arts |
Flexible stepped wedge and cluster randomised crossover designs |
A/Prof Jessica Kasza |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Investigating mtDNA as a danger signal across the tree of life |
Dr Kate McArthur |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Trimodal Materials to Unlock Synergistic Thermal Energy Storage Mechanisms |
Dr Karolina Matuszek |
Faculty of Science |
Dynamics of calcitonin family receptor activation |
Dr Tracy Josephs |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
A crystallography for disorder: characterising structural complexity |
Dr Amelia Liu |
Faculty of Science |
Organosulfur surfactants as novel antioxidants |
A/Prof John Quinn |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
New polar and radical reactions via electron poor alkyne organocatalysis |
Prof David Lupton |
Faculty of Science |
Body systems neuroscience: linking brain, body and cognition |
A/Prof Sharna Jamadar |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Hippo signalling - from cell membranes to the nucleus |
Prof Kieran Harvey |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Can genomics identify and predict evolutionary limits to climate change? |
Prof Carla Sgro |
Faculty of Science |
Learning to Value Constraints |
Prof Andreas Ernst |
Faculty of Science |
The role of microbial interactions in controlling bacterial evolution |
Prof Dena Lyras |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Unveiling the mysteries of rare-earth additions in magnesium alloys |
Prof Jian-Feng Nie |
Faculty of Engineering |
A clean slate approach to solid-state nucleation in metals and alloys |
Prof Christopher Hutchinson |
Faculty of Engineering |
Abelian integrals and Hilbert's 16th problem |
Prof Warwick Tucker |
Faculty of Science |
Strongly driven quantum gases |
Prof Meera Parish |
Faculty of Science |
Asterix and the Making of Modern France: The Creation of a National Myth |
A/Prof Julie Kalman |
Faculty of Arts |
Interrogating GPCR dynamics through high-resolution, time-resolved cryo-EM |
Prof Patrick Sexton |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
New ion-pair species-driven strategies for complex molecule synthesis |
Prof Philip Chan |
Faculty of Science |
From sheep dogs to children: how food reward controls learning |
Prof Zane Andrews |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Untangling the mechanisms of visual attention |
Dr Maureen Hagan |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Exploiting duality in quantum relative entropy optimisation |
Dr James Saunderson |
Faculty of Engineering |
Uncovering heme regulation, handling & transport in mitochondria |
Dr Luke Formosa |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Cellular recycling, a route to productivity in ageing. |
Prof Christina Mitchell |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Cilia biology: an emerging frontier. |
Prof Christina Mitchell |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Understanding how neural circuit activity is controlled by adenosine |
A/Prof Wendy Imlach |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Fabrication of 3D neural networks for next generation biocomputing |
Prof John Forsythe |
Faculty of Engineering |
Ovarian somatic cells: guardians of gamete survival and quality |
Prof Karla Hutt |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
The molecular basis of rapid cellular replication in the malaria parasite |
A/Prof Darren Creek |
Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Humanizing facultative heterochromatin in the yeast. |
A/Prof Chen Davidovich |
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
Women in STEM: The Longer-Term Effects of Teachers |
Dr Rigissa Megalokonomou |
Faculty of Business & Economics |
