Recipients January 2020
International Leader Fellowship
Number of received proposals: 11
Number of funded proposals: 4
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | International Leader Fellow |
| Professor Leo Cheng | University of Auckland | Optical technologies for mapping heart and gut function | 150,000 | 36 | Professor Rogers, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA |
| Professor Quentin Atkinson | University of Auckland | The psychological foundations of social conservatism | 150,000 | 36 | Professor J Raihani, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Harald Schwefel | University of Otago | Miniature sources of quantum light | 150,000 | 36 | Dr V Strekalov, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA |
| Dr Hedwig Eisenbarth | Victoria University of Wellington | Investing in better brains for better behaviour: New Frontiers in Violence Reduction | 144,999 | 36 | Professor Raine, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
New Zealand-China Scientist Exchange Programme
Number of received proposals: 9
Number of funded proposals: 9
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project title | Collaborators | Collaborator Institutions |
| Dr Christina Moon | AgResearch | Understanding rumen microbial nitrogen metabolism to improve ruminant nitrogen utilisation efficiency | Associate Professor Zhao | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| Dr Fei Ying | Auckland University of Technology | Measuring construction logistics efficiency | Professor Wu | Chongqing University |
| Dr Giacomo Giorli | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | Enhancing the international role of New Zealand and China in the marine acoustics research field | Professor Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Dr James Griffiths | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | Quantifying inorganic N discharges using satellite remote sensing | Dr Yu | Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Dr Steven Parker | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | Collaborative research on Antarctic marine ecosystems | Professor Zhu | Shanghai Ocean University |
| Dr Ben Yin | New Zealand Institute for Minerals to Materials Research | Harakeke membrane for water treatment | Distinguished Professor SP Sun | Nanjing Tech University |
| Dr Catherine Tsai | University of Auckland | Developing a novel mucosal vaccine against gonorrhoea | Professor van der Veen | Zhejiang University |
| Dr Kunyu Li | University of Otago | integrating immune targeting therapies and traditional Chinese medicine to treat chronic inflammatory diseases | Dr H Zhang | Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Professor Winston Seah | Victoria University of Wellington | Resource Management in 6th Generation (6G) Networks | Professor B Huang, Associate Professor T Zheng | Inner Mongolia University, Beijing Jiaotong University |
RSNZ Nominations for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships
Number of received proposals: 5
Number of nominated proposals: 5
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project title | Collaborators | Collaborator Institutions |
| Dr Emilie Crossley | Otago Polytechnic | Japanese low-consumptive wildlife tourism: meaning and morality in hybrid online-offline spaces | Professor J Edelheim | Hokkaido University |
| Dr Catherine Tsai | University of Auckland | The development of M2e-based intranasal universal influenza vaccine utilising the PilVax platform | Dr Asanuma, Professor Fujihashi | National Institute of Infectious Diseases, The University of Tokyo |
| Dr Robert Claude Meffan | University of Canterbury | Reservoir Computing with MEMs resonators. | Professor Tsuchiya | University of Kyoto |
| Dr Caitlin Duncan | University of Canterbury | Measuring and computationally modelling the development of children’s non-cognitive skills. | Professor Oka | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
| Mr Andrej Paluda | University of Otago | Regulation of the Aquaporin-2 trafficking by ubiquitylation | Distinguished Professor Y Fujiyoshi | TMDU Advanced Research Institute |