ARC Laureate and Future Fellows
Australian Laureate Fellowships
The Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme reflects the Australian Government’s commitment to excellence in research by supporting world-class researchers to conduct research in Australia. Recipients are supported with project funding in addition to a salary supplement and salary-related (on-cost) support for 5 years.
2025-2029
Plate Tectonics, Critical Minerals and our Habitable Earth.Ìý Addressing a grand science quest to understand how our life-nurturing, resource-rich planet came to be.
2025-2029
Advancing the Frontiers of Detection: Ultrasensitive Terahertz Sensing.
2024-2028
Developing nonmetal materials and technologies for frontier green catalysis targeted to contaminant degradation and chemical synthesis by catalytic oxidation processes.
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2021-2026
Transforming wide-field optical imaging through a new ‘intelligent’ microscopy able to capture 3D volumetric images.Ìý
2021-2026
Developing a toolkit of new battery design principles to deliver high energy-density batteries with outstanding safety profiles and extended cycle lives, which would revolutionise battery technologies and position Australia as a global leader in the critical transition to a decarbonised economy.
2018-2023
Developing novel techniques to investigate Geometric analysis on infinite dimensional bundles, as well as Geometric analysis of pathological spaces with Cantor set as fibre, that arise in models for the fractional quantum Hall effect and topological matter, areas recognised with the 1998 and 2016 Nobel Prizes.
2018-2022
Addressing the efficient and sustainable production of fuels and chemicals using abundant sources like water, carbon dioxide and sunlight by an integrated reaction system.
ARC Future Fellowships
The Australian Future Fellowships provide four-year salary and project funding to excellent mid-career researchers to undertake high quality research in areas of national and international benefit.Ìý
2025-2029
Using a novel acoustic suspension method to grow ovarian follicles in vitro, aiming to enhance viable egg production from stored tissue, improve follicle monitoring, and advance biotechnologies with potential benefits for species conservation and economic impact.
2024-2028
Using a multidisciplinary, cross-species approach to define the functions of malaria proteins involved in host-cell entry, aiming to identify therapeutic targets, advance imaging methods, and position Australia as a leader in malaria research.
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2024-2028
To combat the misuse of blacklists by authoritarian regimes, the Future Fellowship will work with international organisations and marginalised groups around the world.Ìý The project will create a global blacklist dataset and develop policies to counter repression, supporting international governance and Australia's human rights commitments.
2024-2028
Producing new fundamental science for sustainable production of hydrogen and value-added chemicals through a solar-driven photocatalytic approach using abundant plastic wastes and high-performance photocatalysts.
2024-2028
Investigating novel strategies to mitigate the rise in herbicide resistance threatening Australian agricultural production and exports.
2024-2028
Introducing and applying new methods and invariants in the field of low-dimensional topology by developing parametrised and equivariant enhancements of Seiberg-Witten theory and Floer homology.
2024-2028
Investigating human joint systems through combining state-of-the-art imaging and high-fidelity biomechanical models.
2024-2028
Driving key advancements in electrolyte engineering for Li metal batteries with long life and high safety.
2024-2028
Investigating the nature and causes of decadal-scale climate extremes in southern Australia using novel geochemical approaches to reconstruct temperature, rainfall, evaporation and humidity through the last 2000 years.
2024-2028
Developing a novel family of chemically and structurally controlled redox polymer as metal-free catalysts for wastewater micropollutant treatment.
2023-2027
Using innovative techniques to analyse (i) the economic and social impacts of droughts in rural and regional Australia; and (ii) farmers’ drought adaptation responses to carbon-credit market signals.Ìý
2022-2026
Using innovative methodologies to create a unique archive of 20th-century rock art and oral history recordings from western Arnhem Land.Ìý
2021-2025
To understand the neural mechanisms of working memory, a fundamental cognitive function in humans, using a novel framework which combines non-invasive brain stimulation, neuroimaging, pharmacological and experimental manipulations, and biological modelling.
2021-2025
Identifying the ways in which all knowledge, particularly Western and Indigenous knowledge can work together to inform environmental policy, with a focus on climate change adaptation.Ìý
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2021-2025
Deciphering genes and molecular processes that regulate inflorescence architecture in wheat, using state-of-the-art genetic resources to identify novel biological mechanisms that regulate the development of spikelets – reproductive branches that contain grain-producing florets.Ìý
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2021-2025
To reconstruct 250 million years of landscape evolution in response to rifting and break-up of the Gondwana supercontinent, using the innovative approach of combining regional thermochronology with global plate tectonic models.