Recipients January 2024
International Leader Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 11
Number of funded proposals: 5
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NZ PI |
Institution | Project | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Stewart Collie | AgResearch | From farm to advanced hybrid materials | 149,700 | 36 | Dr DH Sandquist | Futurelab and Partners | SWEDEN |
| Dr Graham Leonard | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Global state of the art geochronology applied to Aotearoa's outstanding volcano science problems | 146,400 | 36 | Dr T Calvert | US Geological Survey | USA |
| Professor Martha Savage | Victoria University of Wellington | Leveraging broadband ocean bottom seismometer technology for capacity building of offshore earthquake science in Aotearoa. | 100,000 | 24 | Professor Audet | University of Ottawa | CANADA |
| Dr Ben Yin | Victoria University of Wellington | Direct lithium extraction from New Zealand geothermal water | 148,000 | 36 | Professor ZP Lai | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | SAUDI ARABIA |
| Dr Andrew Lensen | Victoria University of Wellington | Explainable AI for Health Equity: Transforming Cancer Care and Beyond in Aotearoa | 150,000 | 36 | Professor PAN Bosman | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) |
THE NETHERLANDS |
Julius von Haast Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 5
Number of funded proposals: 1
| NZ PI | Institution | Project | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Gareth Crutchley | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | Volcano-tectonic geohazards in the Bay of Plenty: towards effective monitoring strategies | 136,510 | 36 | Professor Berndt | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | GERMANY |
Nominations for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 2
Number of funded proposals: 2
| Dr Felix Woolford | The University of Auckland | Investigating the sensorimotor dynamics of human and artificial agents in social interactions | 24 | Associate Professor K Suzuki | Hokkaido University | JAPAN |
| Dr Benjamin Dorrington Redder | University of Waikato | Tales of Japan: Intersections of Past and Contemporary Traditions of Japanese History and Culture through Historical Video Games | 24 | Associate Professor Roth | Ritsumeikan University | JAPAN |
New Zealand - China Scientist Exchange Programme
Number of received proposals: 8
Number of funded proposals: 8
| NZ PI | Institution | Project |
| Dr Shengjing Shi | AgResearch | Enhancing the Stabilisation of Carbon in Agriculture Soil |
| Dr Hu Wang | AgResearch | A: Explore potential applications of using Nanopore long-read sequencing for genomic selection in forage crops B: Identify genetic regions associated with seed shattering in Medicago ruthenica via RNA-seq and bulk segregant analyses |
| Dr Shuyan Wu | AgResearch | A new turbo for valorizing Aotearoa's Indigenous Tipu |
| Dr Kirsty Smith | Cawthron Institute | Novel sampling approaches to reduce the food safety risk of ciguatera poisoning in Aotearoa-New Zealand and China |
| Dr Liyin Liang | Landcare Research | From data to discovery: A strategic partnership for unveiling intrinsic temperature response of ecosystem respiration |
| Dr Ting Wu | Lincoln Agritech Limited | Investigating atmospheric methane conversion using cost-effective catalysts at room temperature |
| Dr Wei Yang | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | Linking the Environment to the Market – a NZ-China-based Study on Market Response to Information on Environmental Footprints of the Food Supply Chain |
| Dr Thomas Li | University of Canterbury | 3D-printed orthoses from medical imaging data |