Recipients January 2021
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals |
Number of funded proposals |
| General | 20 | 9 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
|
Dr Greg Bodeker |
Climate Acuity Limited |
Lifting the capability of financial institutions in Aotearoa to report on their climate-related financial risks |
80,000 |
24 |
Associate Professor Malte Meinshausen, Dr Shaun Awatere, Mr David Carlin, Professor Christian Jakob |
Climate Resource, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, United Nations Environment Programme- Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Monash University |
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, USA, AUSTRALIA |
|
Dr Genevieve Coffey |
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences |
Novel methods to decipher earthquake age and displacement using the K/Ar system and biomarker thermal maturity |
80,000 |
24 |
Dr Stephen Cox |
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory |
USA |
|
Dr Simone Linz |
University of Auckland |
Parameterized algorithms for hard problems on phylogenetic networks
|
78,100 |
24 |
Professor Dr Christian Komusiewicz, Professor Dr Rolf Niedermeier |
Philipps University Marburg, Technical University Berlin |
GERMANY |
|
Associate Professor Jonathan Sperry |
University of Auckland |
Bio-based fine chemicals from olive-mill waste
|
72,400 |
24 |
Professor Chengzhang Wang |
Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products |
CHINA |
|
Dr Troy Merry |
University of Auckland |
Investigating novel mitochondrial derived peptides for the treatment of metabolic disease |
80,000 |
24 |
Professor Dr Pinchas Cohen |
University of Southern California |
USA |
|
Associate Professor Andrew Tawse-Smith |
University of Otago |
A learner-centred approach for incorporating virtual reality tools in the undergraduate curricula for dental and oral health students in Belgium, New Zealand and Sweden.
|
80,000 |
24 |
Professor Reinhilde Jacobs, Dr Fiona Clarke, Professor Nagihan Bostanci |
Dentomaxillofacial Radiology Centre, Atlas Education Ltd., Karolinska Institute |
BELGIUM, UNITED KINGDOM, SWEDEN |
|
Professor Kurt Krause |
University of Otago |
Establishment of a multi-national cryo-electron microscopy pipeline to support and train New Zealand structural scientists
|
79,832 |
24 |
Professor Antoine van Oijen, Associate Professor Piotr Sliz |
University of Wollongong, Harvard Medical School |
AUSTRALIA, USA |
|
Associate Professor Patrick Silcock |
University of Otago |
Using fermentation to create flavour for plant based analogue products |
79,870 |
24 |
Dr Vittorio Capozzi, Dr Franco Biasioli |
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) |
ITALY |
|
Dr Alexander Doronin |
Victoria University of Wellington |
Light as a cure for infectious disease of human respiratory tract |
72,000 |
24 |
Professor Vladislav Yakovlev |
Texas A&M University |
USA |