University of Queensland wins big with laureate fellows

Education Minister Simon Birmingham has announced Australian Research Council laureate fellowships.

The University of Queensland dominates the elite awards, with its academics winning six of 16.

The new fellows and funding are;

Jonathon Barnett (UniMelb): communities adapting to climate-change on low-lying islands ($3.2m)

Christine Beveridge (UoQ): genes and processes that control plant shoot architecture ($2.9m)

Tamara Davis (UoQ): theoretical analyses of dark matter and energy ($2.8m)

Marilyn Fleer (Monash U): STEM learning in early childhood ($3.2m)

Stephen Foley (Macquarie U): carbon, water, nitrogen in plate tectonics ($3m)

Julian Gale (Curtin U): quantitative prediction of crystallisation ($2.5m)

Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne U): scientific computing to observe galaxy formation ($2.8m)

Hong Hao (Curtin U): multi-hazard-resilient infrastructures for construction ($2.2m)

Jolanda Jetten (UoQ): how human groups adjust to change ($2.7m)

Bostjan Kobe (UoQ): understanding innate immunity to disease ($2.7m)

Dan Li (UniMelb): ion transport in nanoscale channels for industries including water energy and biomedicine ($2.5m)

Hanns-Christoph Naegeri (UoQ): creating a molecular quantum simulator ($2.8m)

Madeleine van Oppen (UniMelb): microbes to enhance climate resilience of coral ($3m)

Peter Visscher (UoQ): big data on the genome to understand human traits ($3.4m)

James Whisstock (Monash U): in situ structural biology ($2.9m)

Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh (RMIT): applications for liquid metals ($3.1m)


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