The University of Queensland congratulates 11 researchers named as 2011-2012 Queensland International Fellows.
国产探花 Vice-Chancellor (Professor Debbie Terry) said the State Government鈥檚 Queensland International Fellowships supported globally-minded researchers to undertake projects with international colleagues.
鈥淭he fellowships, with a total value of $216,000, will foster high quality discovery by 国产探花 people working for advances in health, agriculture, manufacturing, construction and energy.
鈥淥ur Queensland International Fellows will collaborate with peers from some globally renowned institutes in Belgium, China, France, Germany, Japan and the USA.
鈥淚nternational collaboration has been shown to heighten the impact of published Australian research, making this funding an investment in the reputation of Queensland research and in our state鈥檚 attractiveness to international talent and investment,鈥� Professor Terry said.
The Fellows will follow in the footsteps of 16 previous Queensland International Fellows from 国产探花 announced last year.
The Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts, the Hon Ros Bates announced the fellowships and launched the Queensland International Fellowship Alumni Program.
The fellowships will fund collaborative research projects at leading international institutions and agencies.
The announcement was made in conjunction with the 13th International Science and Application Nanotubes Conference (NT12 Conference) at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
国产探花 recipients are:
AGRICULTURE
鈥� $25,000 鈥� Dr Robert Dixon, (QAAFI - Increasing reliability of NIRS (bear infrared reflectance spectroscopy) to improve management of cattle nutrition and rangeland vegetation for productivity and sustainability - Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W)(Belgum and France).
鈥� $24,750 鈥� Professor Myron Zalucki, - To move or not to move: the genetics of caterpillar foraging behaviour in a model plant system - Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (Germany).
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
鈥� $16,000 鈥� Dr Li Li, (AIBN) - High-performance nano-engineered catalysts for volatile organic compound elimination - Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).
CONSTRUCTION
鈥� $21,000 鈥� Dr Peng Yu, - Fabrication of Al and Ti based Hollow Sphere Structures (HSSs) - Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden (Germany).
鈥� $20,500 鈥� Dr Ya Feng Yang, - Spark Plasma Sintering of Titanium and Titanium Alloy Powders - Osaka University (Japan).
ENERGY
鈥� $17,000 鈥� Professor Han Huang, - Deformation and removal of multilayered thin film solar panels in diamond wire sawing - Central South University (China).
鈥� $22,500 鈥� Dr Zhigang Chen, - Towards power generation devices for converting waste heat into power energy - California Institute of Technology (USA).
HEALTH/SOCIAL SCIENCE
鈥� $20,000 鈥� Dr Chamindie Punyadeera, and - Saving Smokers from Cancer: Saliva DNA Test - Philips Research Laboratories (USA).
鈥� $15,000 鈥� Dr Kylie Tucker, - Does distribution of stiffness within a muscle underlie movement changes with pain? - University of de Nantes (France).
鈥� $13,742 鈥� Ms Annina Schmid, - Identification of nerve cell loss in patients with peripheral neuropathies - University of Wuerzburg (Germany).
鈥� $21,000 鈥� Associate Professor Frederic Meunier, - Deciphering the puzzle of molecular events underpinning neurotransmission using super-resolution microscopy - University of Bordeaux ll (France).
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