International Programs

International Science Linkages–Science Academies program 2010-11(round one) grants

Over a hundred leading Australian scientists have been awarded scientific grants to undertake important international collaborative research under the International Science Linkages – Science Academies Program.

The program supports Australian scientists, from both the public and private sectors, to collaborate with international partners on leading edge science and technology in order to contribute to Australia's economic, social and environmental wellbeing.

Australian scientists will travel to research institutions in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and North America to commence their projects in January 2009.

The grant funding is part of the $3.9 million provided to the Australian Academy of Science by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research over the five years of the International Science Linkages – Science Academies Program.

Australian scientists will be working on a diverse range of topics including: cancer, climate change; genomic sequencing; health and ageing; nanotechnology; solar cells and women's health.

Successful exchange participants FY 2010–2011

Europe

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Dr David Coward University of Western Australia	Smart data analysis tools with applications to the France-Australia robotic telescope network, satellite and gravitational observatory data analysis.	Dr Catherine Man Centre Nationale de la Reserche Scientifique France
Associate Professor Peter Daivis RMIT University	Thermostats and thermodynamic temperature far from equilibrium.	Professor David Jou Universitat Automona de Barcelona Spain
Professor Bernard Degnan University of Queensland	The evolution of animal multicellularity: Defining critical genomic innovations leading to the emergence of self-nonself recognition and immunity.	Dr Inaki Ruiz-Trillo Universitat de Barcelona Spain Professor Pedro Martinez Universitat de Barcelona Spain
Dr Heloise Gibb La Trobe University	The colonisation ability of forestry-intolerant species: A core factor for conservation in fragmented forest landscapes during climate change.	Professor Joakim Hjalten Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden
Dr Christian Grillet University of Sydney	Active 2D photonic crystal micropillars, a new platform for reconfigurable optofluidic devices.	Associate Professor Pedro Rojo-Romeo Institut de Nanotechnologies de Lyon France Dr Pierre Kern Laboratoire d’Astrophysique Observatoire de Grenoble France
Dr Rosanne Guijt University of Tasmania	Evaluation of a new but simple manufacturing method to improve sensitivity in contactless conductivity detection.	Professor Peter Hauser University of Basel Switzerland
Dr Christian Guttmann Monash University	Building an agent-based microsimulation to investigate collaborative models in complex and open systems.	Professor Magnus Boman Stockholm University Sweden
Professor Gustaaf Hallegraeff University of Tasmania	Climate change and ocean acidification: Will coccolithophorids be winners or losers?	Professor Phillip Reid Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science UK
Professor John Hartnett University of Western Australia	Development of ultra-low noise frequency transfer for atomic clocks using a cryogenic sapphire oscillator.	Dr Giorgio Santarelli Observatoire de Paris France
Dr John Hooper Queensland Museum	Progressing collaboration of the DNA Barcoding of Life (MarBOL) and Porifera Tree of Life (PorTOL) projects.	Professor Gert Woerheide Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Germany
Professor Kerry Hourigan Monash University	Cardiovascular and respiratory flows: Understanding and control.	Dr Thomas Leweke CNRS France
Dr Mark Hutchison Northern Territory Geological Survey	Age determinations of deep mantle diamonds from Juina, Brazil.	Professor Graham Pearson University of Durham UK
Dr Baohua Jia Swinburne University of Technology	Direct laser writing in quantum dot nanocoposties: From 3D active photonic crystals to 3D active metamaterials.	Professor Nikolay Zheludev University of Southampton UK
Dr Tim Karl University of New South Wales	Maternal infection: Part of the “two-hit hypothesis” of schizophrenia.	Professor Joram Feldon Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Switzerland Professor Stephan von Hoersten Friedrich Alexander University Germany
Professor Sergei Kuzenko University of Western Australia	New superconformal theories and their applications.	Professor Ulf Lindstrom Uppsala University Sweden
Dr Sherie Ma University of Melbourne	Electrophysiological and neurochemical characterisation of neurons that respond to relaxin-3 in the medial septum in anaesthetised and unanaesthetised rats.	Professor Jacques Epelbaum Inserm France
Dr Graham Marshall Macquarie University	3-dimensional chip-based quantum information systems.	Professor Jeremy O’Brien University of Bristol UK
Professor Donald McNaughton Monash University	Spatial and intensity enhanced Raman microspectroscopy and imaging within single cells.	Professor Janina Kneipp Humbolt University zu Berlin Germany Dr Jens-uwe Grabow Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Germany
Professor Karol Miller University of Western Australia	Biomechanical modelling of brain diseases.	Professor Dimos Poulikakos Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Switzerland
Dr Shannon Notley Australian National University	Tuneable adhesion between particles in water mediated by adsorbed polymer layers.	Professor Simon Biggs University of Leeds UK Professor Mark Rutland KTH Sweden
Dr John Pimanda University of New South Wales	Transcriptional networks regulating blood stem cell development.	Dr Bertie Gottgens Cambridge Institute for Medical Research UK
Dr John Provis University of Melbourne	Developing glass-ceramics to valorise fly ashes.	Professor Ange Nzihou Ecole des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux France
Dr Justin Seymour Flinders University	Microbial behaviour and the marine DMSP cycle.	Dr Rafel Simo Institut de Ciencies del Mar Spain
Dr Ilya Shadrivov Australian National University	Nonlinear chiral metamaterials.	Professor Nikolay Zheludev University of Southampton UK Dr Pavel Belov Queen Mary University of London UK
Dr Jason Sharples University of New South Wales	Analysing complex combustion processes: Combustion wave stability and eruptive fire behaviour of bushfires.	Professor John Dold University of Manchestor UK Professor Domingos Vegas Universidade de Coimbra – Polo II Portugal
Dr Andrew Try Macquarie University	Designed chiral frameworks for the synthesis of self-structured bridged silsesquioxanes.	Dr Michel Wong Chi Man Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chemie de Montpellier France
Professor John Wade University of Melbourne	Novel synthetic oligonucleotide analogues and their peptide conjugates for therapeutic applications.	Dr Michael Gait MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology UK
Dr Nicole Webster Australian Institute of Marine Science	Exploring the impact of climate change on microbial composition and function in a model marine symbiosis.	Professor Michael Wagner University of Vienna Austria Dr Ute Hentschel University of Wurzburg Germany
Dr Kerrie Wilson University of Queensland	Conservation planning in a dynamic world.	Professor Niels Strange University of Copenhagen Denmark
Dr Annette Worthy University of Wollongong	Mathematical modelling of reconfigurable circuits based on nematic liquid crystals.	Dr Noel Smyth University of Edinburgh Scotland Professor Gaetano Assanto University of Rome Italy

Americas

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Dr Tracey Ainsworth James Cook University	Host-microbe interactions and the impacts of pollution to inshore coral reefs.	Professor Ruth Gates University of Hawaii USA
Associate Professor Jason Antenucci University of Western Australia	Internal wave controls on plankton patchiness in lakes due to shear and pseudo-chaotic advection.	Professor Roman Stocker Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
Associate Professor Stefan Arndt University of Melbourne	Methane uptake of soils in Australia.	Associate Professor Joseph von Fischer Colorado State University USA Associate Professor Noah Fierer University of Colorado USA
Dr Julie Brown University of New South Wales	Investigation of the effect of modified spinal properties on rear-seat dummy response in adult seat belts.	Mr Richard Morgan George Washington University USA
Dr Tasman Daish University of Adelaide	Identification of miRNA candidates involved in sex chromosome silencing in monotremes.	Professor Gregory Hannon Howard Hughes Medical Institute USA
Associate Professor Scott Donne University of Newcastle	Adsorption phenomena during electrocatalytic oxygen reduction.	Professor Yang Shao Horn Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
Dr Justine Ellis Murdoch Childrens Research Institute	International collaboration for genome wide association studies in juvenile idipoathic arthritis.	Dr Hakon Hakonarson Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia USA
Dr Yuangton Gu Queensland University of Technology	Advanced multiscale modelling techniques for exploring the deformation mechanism of materials.	Associate Professor Shaofun Li University of California at Berkeley USA
Dr Adam Koboroff University of New England	The role of experience in a natural behavioural system.	Professor Donald Owings University of California, Davis USA
Dr Jasmina Lazendic-Galloway Monash University	A search for the origin of galactic cosmic rays: Catching up with the fastest particles known.	Dr Patrick Slane Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory USA
Dr Roman Makarevich La Trobe University	Ionospheric plasma dynamics during geomagnetically disturbed conditions.	Professor Alexandre Koustov University of Saskatchewan Canada
Dr Joshua Mylne University of Queensland	Evolutionary development of cyclic peptides in the sunflower family.	Associate Professor Jose Panero University of Texas USA Professor Edward Schilling University of Tennessee USA
Professor John Pandolfi University of Queensland	Incorporating appropriate ecological baselines into management of natural resources.	Professor Jeremy Jackson University of California, San Diego USA Ms Kathryn Mengerink University of California, San Diego USA Mr Steve Roady Duke University USA
Dr Amy Richards Food Science Australia	Exploring the potential of natural antioxidants for healthier food products: To enhance the viability of the Australian food industry into the future.	Dr Jill Winkler-Moser United States Department of Agriculture USA
Dr Linda Stalker CSIRO Petroleum Resources	Accelerating deployment of carbon storage and monitoring and verification strategies.	Dr Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory USA
Dr Tianhai Tian Monash University	Spatio-temporal modelling of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway.	Professor John Hancock University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston USA Professor Zhixiang Chen University of Texas at Pan American USA
Dr Caroline Ummenhofer University of New South Wales	Indian Ocean variability and long-term change linked to regional rainfall and drought.	Professor Mark Cane Columbia University USA Dr Rosanne d’Arrigo Columbia University USA
Associate Professor Jeffery Walker University of Melbourne	Development of global soil moisture retrieval algorithms for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.	Dr Thomas Jackson United States Department of Agriculture USA Dr Eni Njoku NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory USA Dr Peggy O’Neill NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre USA
Dr Changbin Yu Australian National University	Building the Australian capability for Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology.	Professor Shankar Sastry University of California at Berkeley USA

Korea

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Dr Naveen Chilamkurti La Trobe University	Ubiquitous computing systems and services for environmental sustainability.	Professor Jin Kwak Soonchunhyang University
Dr Richard Dodson University of Western Australia	Pinning back the veil the radio sky: An Australian and Korean collaboration.	Dr Bong Won Sohn Yonsei University
Dr Vincent Lemiale CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering	Numerical modelling of the mechanical response of metals under extreme conditions with a view to designing novel advanced materials.	Professor Hyoung Seop Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology
Dr Sokcheon Pak Charles Sturt University	Immune regulatory effect of medicinal herbs.	Professor Hyung Min Kim Kyung Hee University
Dr Claudia Vickers University of Queensland	Genome scale modelling in Escherichia coli for rational strain design.	Professor Sang Yup Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Taiwan

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Dr Andrew Baird James Cook University	Hybridisation in reef corals: Source of evolutionary novelty or experimental artifact?	Professor Chaolun Chen Academia Sinica
Dr Jennifer Chan University of Sydney	Accurate volatility estimation in financial time series models.	Professor Cathy Chen Feng Chia University
Associate Professor Richard Lai La Trobe University	Managing the complexity of an automotive software system.	Associate Professor Sun Jen Huang National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Dr Yi-chen Lan University of Western Sydney	A conservational Knowledge management platform for a cluster of SMEs in an innovation and incubation centre in Taiwan.	Associate Professor Maria Lee Shih Chen University
Dr Jun Ma University of South Australia	Modification of graphite for functional polymer nanocomposites.	Dr Hsu-chiang Kuan Far East University
Dr San Thang CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies	RAFT-generated nanoprobes for rapid targeted protein identification and profiling.	Dr Yu-ju Chen Academia Sinica Professor Chun-cheng Lin National Tsing Hua University
Dr Conny Turni Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries	Establishment of a challenge model for Glässer’s disease in pigs.	Dr Shih-ping Chen Animal Technology Institute Taiwan (ATIT)

Japan

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Mr Graeme Auchterlonie University of Queensland	Synthesis of novel thin film solid oxide fuel cell electrolytes.	Dr Toshiyuki Mori National Institute for Materials Science
Professor John Black University of New South Wales	Environmental stressors and public health: Modelling and visualisation of exposures over time and place.	Professor Makoto Okumura Tohoku University
Dr Natalie Dillon Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries	Development of molecular markers for improved mango varieties.	Professor Keizo Yonemori Kyoto University Dr Chitose Honsho University of Miyazaki
Dr Waheed Hugrass University of Tasmania	Optimisation of EUV radiation from the Kansai Rotamak.	Professor Masami Ohnishi Kansai University
Associate Professor Zhengyi Jiang University of Wollongong	Mechanics of surface effects in micro rolling of metals.	Professor Ken-ichi Manabe Tokyo Metropolitan University
Dr James McMillan University of Queensland	Assessing the role of kindlin family proteins in skin cell adhesion, migration and proliferation on artificial substrates.	Professor Hiroshi Shimizu Hokkaido University
Dr Hideaki Ogawa University of Queensland	The science of optimal, robust scramjet propulsion systems for efficient access to space.	Professor Kazuhiro Nakahashi Tohoku University Dr Tetsuji Sunami Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Dr Sihai Zhou University of Wollongong	Fabrication of MgB2 superconductor wires with novel processors and characterisation of their high magnetic field properties.	Professor Hiroaki Kumakura National Institute for Materials Science

China

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Associate Professor Corey Bradshaw University of Adelaide	Determining the relationship between environmental degradation and human health at the national scale.	Professor Lingli Tang Academy of Opto-Electronics Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate Professor Guo-jing Yang Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases Professor Xiao-nong Zhou National Institute of Parasitic Diseases
Dr Jituo Guo Monash University	Somatic cell reprogramming by cytoplasts of iPS cells.	Professor Yue Ma Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr Bo Li University of Sydney	Dicimetric type III solar radio bursts: Observations and numerical simulations.	Professor Yihua Yan Beijing Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr Hongyuan Liu University of Queensland	Three-dimensional hybrid continuous-discrete multi-physical modelling of heterogeneous rock fracture.	Dr Li Chen Institute of Mechanics Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Chun’an Tang Dalian University of Technology Professor Wancheng Zhu Northeastern University
Dr Joe Miller CSIRO Plant Industry	Plant biogeographic patterns of large plants shared between China and Australia.	Dr Zhiduan Chen Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Dian-xiang Zhang South China Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor John Morrison University of Wollonging	Improving the link between scientific research and policy/planning activities for coastal zone management.	Professor Shi Ping Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research for Sustainable Development Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Zhiming Yu Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences