$5.6 million for future-focussed research
Six leading UTS researchers get more than $5.6 million in Australian Government funding for work including renewable lithium batteries, cybersecurity measures and complementary health promotions.
Australian Research Council Future Fellowships are awarded to the best and brightest of Australia’s mid-career researchers to undertake innovative research with potential future benefits for the nation.
The six UTS Future Fellows for 2022 have been each awarded between $800,000 and $1.1 million over four years:
- Professor Igor Aharonovich to deliver new hardware for the advanced manufacturing of quantum nanophotonics using hexagonal boron nitride.
- Dr Wengui Li develop robust cement sensors that can be used to monitor the operations and maintenance needs of infrastructure.
- Dr Amie Steel to use a consumer-informed methodology to examine health promotion and complementary medicine.
- Associate Professor Yulei Sui to investigate next-generation cybersecurity with learning-based software security analysis to detect vulnerabilities.
- Dr Bing Sun to develop new technology for rechargeable lithium metal batteries to increase energy density and improve their life cycle.
- Associate Professor Jiajia Zhou to find a new way to study living cells and their functional interactions by creating a super-resolution heat map at the cellular level.
“Congratulations to each of our new Future Fellows at UTS. Each of these outstanding researchers are doing work that’s set to make a difference in the lives of many Australians,” says Professor Kate McGrath, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at UTS.
“From concrete to complementary medicine, and zooming-in on nano-photonics and nano-particles, our researchers are at the cutting-edge of technology and society. With more Future Fellows than ever, these awards illustrate the depth of research talent at UTS.”
