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 Australia’s best vision researchers and top antimatter physicists will share in more than $20 million in grants for two new Centres of Excellence at ANU.
The Australian Research Council Grants support university-based researchers to establish research networks.
A new $10.5 million Centre of Excellence in Antimatter Studies (CAMS) will be established, with $7 million in Federal Government funding and the remainder from partner organisations.
The Director, Professor Steve Buckman from the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at ANU, said CAMS will develop ways to lead Australia into an exciting area of research in the physical, chemical and biological sciences.
“The establishment of this centre will ensure that Australia is at the leading edge of this important field, working alongside collaborative partners from eight overseas institutions in the USA, Europe and Japan,” Professor Buckman said.
CAMS scientists will use anti-matter particles called positrons to characterise nanoscale materials, with potential ramifications for areas including pharmaceutical delivery and water treatment.
The new $11 million centre of Excellence in Vision Science will study our amazing sense of vision. Professor Trevor Lamb, an ARC Federation Fellow at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, will be the Director.
“The Centre of Excellence in Vision Science will provide a deeper understanding of how our visual system functions, how it extracts information about the world, and why it is that the eye is susceptible to degeneration,” Professor Lamb said.
ANU researchers will also take part in new centres in the areas of coral reef biodiversity, cultural and media industries, free radical chemistry and biology, functional microbial genomics, ore deposits, and plant energy biology.
They will also share in more than $3 million in ARC Linkage Projects funding over the next four years.
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