Recipients January 2025
International Leader Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 7
Number of funded proposals: 3
| New Zealand PI | Organisation | Project | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Organisation | Countries |
| Dr Boda Ning | Auckland University of Technology | AI-Driven Robust Platooning Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles: Enabling Safe, Sustainable, and Scalable Transport in New Zealand | 150,000 | 36 | Distinguished Professor QL Han | Swinburne University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| Professor Valery Feigin | Auckland University of Technology | Digital interventions for brain health and wellbeing | 150,000 | 36 | Professor Reips | University of Konstanz | GERMANY |
| Professor Leo Cheng | University of Auckland | Multiscale models of cardiac and gut electro-mechanics for optimising novel therapies | 150,000 | 36 | Professor Gizzi | Campus Bio Medico University of Rome | ITALY |
Julius von Haast Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 3
Number of funded proposals: 1
| New Zealand PI | Organisation | Project | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Organisation | Countries |
| Dr Lauren Vargo | Victoria University of Wellington | Attribution of Ice Loss through Emulators (AILE) | 150,000 | 36 | Professor B Marzeion | University of Bremen | GERMANY |
Nominations for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 1
Number of funded proposals: 1
| New Zealand PI | Organisation | Project | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Organisation | Countries |
| Mr Dominic Devlin | University of Auckland | Predicting and Designing Multicellular Structures from Synthetic Gene Circuits | 24 | Associate Professor Ishihara | University of Tokyo | JAPAN |
New Zealand - China Scientist Exchange Programme
Number of received proposals: 10
Number of funded proposals:10
| New Zealand PI | Organisation | Project | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Organisation |
| Dr Shuai Zhou | Auckland University of Technology | AI-Enabled Demand Response Strategies for Electric Vehicle Charging Systems | Associate Professor Yang | Northeast Electric Power University |
| Associate Professor Jian Yu | Auckland University of Technology | Collaboration in "Medical-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research" | Associate Professor Liu | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications |
| Professor Don Kulasiri | Lincoln University | Development of Machine learning pipeline for early detection of Alzheimer's disease and modelling dynamics in Axon Initial Segment | Professor Zhang | Peking University |
| Dr Jingjing Zhang | Plant and Food Research | Visit to discuss and plan for collaboration in water adaptations under changing climates in agricultural system |
Benye Xi |
Beijing Forestry University |
| Dr Jianming Xue | New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd (Scion) | Low-Carbon Green Remediation Technologies for Restoring Degraded Soils and Contaminated Water |
Professor Longhua Wu, Professor Yongming Luo, Professor Xuechen Sun, Professor Jinyang Yang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural, University, Sichuan University |
| Professor Kean Aw | The University of Auckland | A Novel Smart Touch Sensor | Associate Professor Mengying Xie, Associate Professor Hongjie Jiang | Tianjin University, South China University of Technology |
| Dr Catherine Tsai | The University of Auckland | Harnessing the Group A Streptococcus pilus to combat infectious diseases | Professor Stijn van der Veen, Professor Guofeng Gu | Zhejiang University, Shandong University |
| Dr Elliott Wen | The University of Auckland | Visit to discuss possible collaboration in transforming aged care training through artificial intelligence and virtual reality | Professor Fuliang Li, Professor Yang Lei | Northeastern University, South China University of Technology |
| Dr Xun Xiao | University of Otago | Advancing Veterinary Diagnostic Testing through Novel Data-Driven Approaches | Associate Professor Yang, Associate Professor Chen, Associate Professor Zhai | Nanjing Agricultural University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai University |
| Dr Emily He | University of Otago | Regulation and function of ion channels involved in hypothalamic vasopressin release | Dr Zhongxin Wu, Professor Xiumei Zhang, Dr Jin-long Yang | Dalian Ocean University, Zhejiang Ocean University, Shanghai Ocean University |