Recipients April 2023
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals | Number of funded proposals |
| General | 44 | 13 |
| Dumont d'Urville | 18 | 3 |
| Total | 62 | 15 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
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New Zealand PI |
Institution | Project Title | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Dan Bassett | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Diagnosing earthquake and tsunami hazard by CAT scanning subduction zones in New Zealand and Japan. | 78,500 | 24 | Dr Kodaira, Dr Matsubara | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | JAPAN, JAPAN |
| Dr Ery Hughes | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Decoding volcanic gas signals: modelling gases in the world’s most hazardous volcanoes | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Moune | Université Clermont Auvergne | FRANCE |
| Dr Holger Fiedler | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Engineering energy harvesting surfaces via ion beam modifications | 80,000 | 24 | Dr C Sherrell, Professor Šutka | RMIT University, Riga Technical University | AUSTRALIA, OTHER |
| Dr Suzanne Bull | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Developing a novel “listening” capability to enable sustained monitoring and early warning of hazardous underwater landslides. | 70,000 | 24 | Dr MA Clare, Dr SJ Watson | National Oceanographic Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Anna Kaiser | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Capturing site amplification in seismic design: Pilot study investigating seismic site amplification at stations of the NZ seismic network. | 66,000 | 24 | Dr M Pischiutta, Professor Cianfarra | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), University of Genova | ITALY, ITALY |
| Professor Rainer Hofmann | Lincoln University | Monochromatic LED light supplementation to promote disease resistance and fruit quality in indoor cultivation: towards a sustainable production | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Landi | University of Pisa | ITALY |
| Professor Leonie Pihama | Tū Tama Wahine o Taranaki | The Construction of the Indigenous Incarcerated Body: Māori & Indigenous Populations and the School to Prison Pipeline | 80,000 | 24 | Dr M Miller, Professor DeSantolo | Ekolu Mea Nui / Hoʻōla Nā Pua, University of Technology, Sydney | USA, AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Neill Herbert | University of Auckland | Developing fish swimming technology to meet the productivity, quality and welfare goals of the international fish farming industry | 80,000 | 24 | Professor CJ Brauner, Dr Black | University of British Columbia, Plant and Food Research | CANADA |
| Associate Professor Scott Graham | University of Auckland | Collaboration exploring ways to target paediatric brain tumours | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Tsoli | Child Cancer Institute | AUSTRALIA |
| Associate Professor Guy Warman | University of Auckland | Using biological clocks to predict honey bee health and reduce colony loss. | 79,634 | 24 | Professor HR Menzel, Dr Michelle Taylor, Dr MD Pawely | Free University Berlin, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, Massey University | GERMANY, , |
| Professor Rod Dunbar | University of Auckland | Establishing a collaboration to study lymph node 3D architecture and function | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Coles | University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Rachel Darnell | University of Otago | Understanding the functional dynamics of antimicrobial tolerance in the bacterial pathogen Enterococcus faealis | 76,000 | 24 | Dr H Strahl | Newcastle University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Professor John Townend | Victoria University of Wellington | Deep learning, deep underground: new insights into earthquake phenomena from distributed acoustic sensing and machine learning | 80,000 | 24 | Professor S Miller, Professor Harmeling | Australian National University, Technische Universität Dortmund | AUSTRALIA, GERMANY |
Dumont d'Urville - New Zealand-France Science &Technology Support Programme
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Collaborator Countries |
| Professor Simon Brown | University of Canterbury | Brain-like computing with networks of molecules | 79,550 | 21 | Professor Simon Tricard | National Cenre for Scientific Research (CNRS) | FRANCE |
| Professor David Grattan | University of Otago | Role of prolactin in sexually dimorphic regulation of adrenocortical function and response to stress | 76,500 | 24 | Professor Enzo Lalli | CNRS- UMR7275 | FRANCE |
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Dr Susan Ellis |
GNS Science | He rū o te whenua me ngā ahi tipua i Aotearoa (earthquakes and volcanoes in New Zealand): unravelling hazardous interactions in the crust using state-of-the-art numerical experiments | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Muriel Gerbault | Toulouse University | FRANCE |