Monash Engineering researchers awarded over $5 Million in ARC Discovery Projects Funding
Monash Engineering researchers have been awarded over $5million for eight projects funded under the 2025 Australian Research Council Discovery Project scheme.
Discovery Projects support excellent pure basic, strategic basic and applied research and research training across all disciplines, excluding clinical and other medical research, that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and represents value for money.
The eight engineering-led projects are among 536 research projects nationally awarded more than $342 million of funding and among 72 awarded to Monash University researchers.
Materials Science and Engineering Department received four grants, with Professor Aijun Huang, Associate Dean International, awarded a grant to explore as-printed titanium alloys and Professor John Forsythe received a grant to investigate the fabrication of 3D neural networks for next generation biocomputing. ARC Laureate Fellow from the Department of Civil Engineering, Professor Jeffrey Walker, was also awarded a grant to advance high resolution soil moisture monitoring.
Congratulations to all of our successful recipients.
Funded projects include:
Project Title | Researchers | Engineering Department | Funding Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
Advancing high resolution soil moisture and vegetation dynamics monitoring | Professor Jeffrey Walker; Professor Jason Beringer; Associate Professor Brian Ng; Dr Qiaoyun Xie; Dr Rajat Bindlish | Civil | $667,596.00 |
Discovering the sustainable size of cities | Associate Professor Liton Kamruzzaman; Professor Hai Vu; Professor Graham Currie; Emeritus Professor Roger Vickerman; Professor Dr Eric Miller | Civil | $533,628.00 |
Exploiting duality in quantum relative entropy optimisation | Dr James Saunderson; Professor Hamza Fawzi | Electrical and Computer Systems | $435,000.00 |
Avant-Garde Kirchhoff's Laws Equivalent for Quantum Thermal Transistors | Professor Malin Premaratne; Professor Dr Sarath Gunapala | Electrical and Computer Systems | $573,825.00 |
As-printed titanium alloys with exceptional strain hardening | Professor Aijun Huang; Professor Peter Hodgson; Professor Yunzhi Wang | Materials Science | $501,618.00 |
A clean slate approach to solid-state nucleation in metals and alloys | Professor Christopher Hutchinson | Materials Science | $878,182.00 |
Unveiling the mysteries of rare-earth additions in magnesium alloys | Professor Jian-Feng Nie; Professor Jian Wang | Materials Science | $794,523.00 |
Professor John Forsythe; Emeritus Professor Helena Parkington; Associate Professor Levin Kuhlmann; Professor Marie-Isabel Aguilar | Materials Science | $701,415.00 |
Projects led by another Faculty or Institution
Project Title | Lead Faculty or Institution | Researcher | Funding Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
Can Machines Unlearn? Toward Next-Generation Safe Artificial Intelligence | Monash University (Data Science & AI) | Professor Dinh Phung; Associate Professor Mehrtash Harandi; Dr Trung Le; Dr Jing Zhang; Professor Jianfei Cai | $790,750.00 |
Unravelling the secrets of tooth enamel: implications for human evolution | Monash University (Anatomy & Developmental Biology) | Associate Professor Luca Fiorenza; Associate Professor Jing Fu; Professor Dr Stefano Benazzi; Adjunct Professor Ottmar Kullmer; Dr Ana Carolina Mosca | $665,767.00 |
Untangling the mechanisms of visual attention | Monash University (Physiology) | Dr Maureen Hagan; Associate Professor Yan Wong | $743,667.00 |
Unravelling Toxic Cyanobacterial Ecosystem Challenges in Wastewater Reuse | University of Melbourne | Professor Benjamin Howden; Professor Linda Blackall; Dr Arash Zamyadi; Associate Professor Michael Grace; Dr Rebekah Henry | $758,537.00 |
For more information on Discovery Projects, visit the Australian Research Council website
