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ARC Fellowships: UNSW scoops the pool

• Professor Victor Flambaum of the School of Physics. He will pursue a project titled Test of unification theories in atomic and nuclear phenomena. This project will help to establish Australia among the leaders in important areas of modern science: tests of models unifying all physical forces and the search for variation of fundamental constants of nature.

• Professor Joe Forgas of the School of Psychology. He submitted a project titled Hearts and minds: Affect, thinking and behaviour, which is hoped to produce direct national and community benefit by developing a new integrative theory of affective influences on thinking and action.

• Professor Ian Gilbert, from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who proposed a project called The implications of low-ductility reinforcement and strain localisation on the strength and ductility of reinforced concrete two-way slabs. This project will investigate the ductility of two-way slabs containing a widely used reinforcement, leading to safer and better performing concrete structures.

• Associate Professor Brett Neilan of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences. He will undertake a project titled Sodium homeostasis and the molecular basis for neurotoxin production by bacteria and algae. It is designed to develop genetic tests for microorganisms that lead to toxic blooms, essential in the depleted and increasingly saline water resources of inland Australia.

• Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Petersen, whose proposal titled Uncertain Systems Theory applied to Nonlinear Robust Control and Filtering, will develop new techniques for the design of high performance robust nonlinear controllers and filters which are widely applicable in industrial applications.

• Professor Aibing Yu, of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, who will undertake a project called Granular dynamics: theories, modelling and simulation. It will tackle the core problems in the field of particle science and technology, important to raw materials processing, by developing novel theories and mathematical models to describe the flow of particles.

• Dr Yong Zhao, also from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, whose project titled Improvement of Critical Current Density of High Temperature Superconductors by Reforming Microstructure at Nanoscale is designed to strengthen Australia's capability and leading position in this frontier technology.