Outstanding results - ARC Discovery Projects 2026
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced outcomes of the ARC Discovery Projects 2026 (DP26), Round 1. Monash Engineering is proud to share an outstanding result: 16 successful projects led by our Engineering academics, and one additional project led outside the faculty.
We acknowledge the great efforts of these research teams across the faculty:
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Polymer network engineering of membranes for precision ion separation
Professor Huanting Wang and Dr Zhikao Li
Semiconductor Photoisomerisation - A New class of Switchable Materials
Professor Udo Bach, Professor Sam Stranks and Dr Wenxin Mao
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transforming CO2 Utilization into Sustainable Resource Recovery Solutions
Professor Prof Ranjith Pathegama Gamage, Associate Professor Asadul Haque and Dr Pabasara Kumari Wanniarachchige
Corrugation Control in Unsealed Roads: Mechanisms and Sustainable Solutions
Professor Jayantha Kodikara, Dr Liuxin (Lucy) Chen and Professor Erol Tutumluer
Positional accuracy for robotic structural assembly
Professor Yu Bai, Dr Yihai Fang and Dr Elahe Abdi
Electric vehicle charging tariff paradigms for the clean energy transition
Professor Hai Vu, Professor Russell Smyth and Dr Lachlan Andrew
Next-Gen Thermal Resilient Liners: Redefining Pit Energy Storage Efficiency
Professor Abdelmalek Bouazza, Professor John McCartney and Professor R. Kerry Rowe
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Electrical Control of Spaser Dynamics via Quantum Electrodynamic Principles
Professor Malin Premaratne and Professor Dr Sarath Gunapala
Integrating Communication and Sensing: Connecting the Cyber-Physical World
Professor Emanuele Viterbo, Associate Professor Yi Hong and Professor Dr Andreas Molisc
Skillphabets: Teaching robots new skills by reducing information asymmetry
Dr Michael Burke, Dr Jürgen Leitner Dr Pamela Carreño Medrano and Professor Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Radar Integrated Body Area Networks
Professor Mehmet Yuce, Dr Faezeh Marzbanrad and Professor Giancarlo Fortino
Materials Science and Engineering
Revealing Order in Organic Semiconductors with Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Professor Christopher McNeill and Dr Amelia Liu
Macromolecular design of sustainable polymeric materials
Associate Professor Kristian Kempe, Professor Neil Cameron and Dr Leonie van 't Hag
Unravelling Nucleation and Early-Stage Growth of Colloidal Perovskites
Professor Jacek Jasieniak, Associate Professor Tuncay Alan; Associate Professor Daniel Schmidt
Metal-based complexes and materials that challenge antimicrobial resistance
Led by Monash Science - Professor Phil Andrews, Professor Laurence Meagher and Professor Hongzhe Sun
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Unlocking sperm transcription via mechanical stimulation
Associate Professor Reza Nosrati, Dr Farin Yazdan Parast and Dr Avinash Gaikwad
The integrated monolithic on-chip microscope
Professor Adrian Neild and Associate Professor Víctor J. Cadarso Busto
Congratulations to all our academic researchers on this remarkable achievement which is testament to the depth, innovation and impact of engineering research at Monash University.
Read more about ARC Discovery Projects 2026 here.
