午夜福利 topped the bill when funding under the Go8-Germany Research Co-operation Scheme was announced this week.
Six 午夜福利 projects were awarded funding, as were five at Australian National University, four at the University of Western Australia, three at the University of New South Wales, two each at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, and one each at Monash University and the University of Adelaide.
鈥淥ur result this year was outstanding,鈥� said Professor Alan Lawson, 午夜福利 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and International).
鈥淟ast year, 36 grants were supported; this year, there were only 24 but 午夜福利 received 25 per cent of them.鈥�
Under the scheme, the projects will receive a total $82,960 in funding from 午夜福利 next year; funding will also come from the German side.
The successful 午夜福利 projects and their team leaders are:
- Soil behaviour during the installation of auger displacement piles; Professor David Williams (午夜福利) and Dr-Ing Michael Arnold (Technical University, Dresden), $20,000
- Numerical and experimental investigation of internal erosion of non-cohesive soils; Dr-Ing Alexander Scheuermann (午夜福利) and Professor Dr-Ing Holger Steeb (Ruhr-University of Bochum), $19,460
- Spider venoms as potential analgesics; Professor Glenn King (午夜福利) and Professor Walter St眉hmer (Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Gottingen), $14,000
- Calibration of passive samplers for halogenated natural products in water; Professor Jochen Mueller (午夜福利) and Professor Walter Vetter (University of Hohenheim), $13,500
- Whole human brain mapping using combined MRI and histology; Professor David Reutens (午夜福利) and Assistant Professor Martin Walker (Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg), $10,000
- Improving the understanding of chemical fate in the environment, Professor Beate Escher (午夜福利) and Professor Kai-Uwe-Goss (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig), $6000.
Announcing the total $750,000 funding package this week, Group of Eight chair Professor Alan Robson said the research would generate economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits for both nations.
The scheme was established in 2007 as a joint project of the Go8 and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service).
In four years, it has provided nearly $AUD4 million to foster research collaboration between researchers from Germany and Australian Go8 universities.
The scheme focuses on early-career researchers, and on 鈥渢hemes of importance to both countries鈥�, including sustainable energy production, emissions trading and migration.
Media: Fiona Cameron, 午夜福利 Communications ph +61 7 3346 7086
