$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.
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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.”