Outcomes and Awardees

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Initiator Grants

Round 1

UNSW Academic Lead	Project Title	Associated Faculty/School	Partner Organisation(s)	Region(s) of Focus
Shona McNab	Organic Multi-exciton Generation Augmented Silicon (OMEGA-Si) for >30% efficient silicon solar cells	UNSW Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
Adam Fish	Establishing Ethical Guidelines for Successful Collaboration between the Space Industry and Indigenous Communities	UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture	Arizona State University King's College London Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of British Columbia	USA, UK, Canada
Elvira Sojli	Biodiversity and the unintended consequences of climate legislation	UNSW Business School	National University of Singapore, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute	Singapore
Tristan Reekie	Nature inspired anticancer treatments	UNSW Canberra	University of Gdansk	Poland
Lucia Jones	UNSW-IISc Research Academy for Strategic Research and HDR	UNSW Graduate Research School	Indian Institute of Science	India

Round 2

UNSW Academic Lead	Project Title	Associated Faculty/School	Partner Organisation(s)	Region(s) of Focus
Jing (Camille) Zhao	Multi-proxy geochemical and geomorphological approach to unravel the genesis of placer gold deposits in Tierra del Fuego (the Land of Fire), Patagonia, South America	UNSW Engineering	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile)	Chile
Carmen Leong	Tech-Driven Behavioural Design for Mongolia’s Renewable Energy Transition: A UNSW–UNDP Partnership	UNSW Business School	United Nations Development Programme	International
Elizabeth Hollaway	Review of the Framework for a Pacific Oceanscape: Integrating Ocean Governance within the 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent	UNSW Law & Justice	Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner	International
Hasan Turan	Decision support for sustainable land-use management	UNSW Canberra	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and Ohio Northern University	Germany and USA
Billal Obeng	Molecular epidemiology HIV-1 in Ghana	Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney	University of Ghana	Ghana
Shiva Abdoli	Advance Engineering Education (AEE4.0) on Intelligent Product Lifecycle Management and Model Based Systems Engineering in industry	UNSW Engineering	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
Muhammad Umair Khan	Advancing Solar Cell Reliability through Novel Surface Characterisation	UNSW Engineering	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
Elena Atroshchenko	Design of Acoustic Meta-Materials for Wave-based Analogue Computing for Machine Learning Applications	UNSW Engineering	Technical University of Munich	Germany
Melissa Crouch	Defending Constitutional Democracy? The Legal Roles of the Military	UNSW Law & Justice	Chulalongkorn Law School, Thailand and Padjajaran University (UNPAD) Indonesia	Thailand and Indonesia

Round 3

UNSW Academic Lead	Project Title	Associated Faculty/School	Partner Organisation(s)	Partner Country
Katrina Thorpe	Translational Research and Teaching for Indigenous Futures	UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture Nura Gili: Centre for Indigenous Studies	Cornell University	United States of America
Daniel Luque Buzo	Biofilm enabled virus like particles production for next generation oral vaccines	UNSW Medicine & Health	University of Zurich	Switzerland
Riccardo Paolini	Cooling Performance of Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling Materials During Heatwaves	UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture	École Polytechnique	France
Yiyu Zeng	Mechanisms and Mitigation of UV Induced Degradation in Next Generation Silicon Solar Cells	UNSW Engineering	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
Nicole Carnt	A corneal organoid platform for eye infection research	UNSW Medicine & Health	National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH)	India
Natalia Castaño Rodríguez	Identifying a genetic-microbial signature in stomach cancer	UNSW Science	Erasmus University Medical Center	The Netherlands
Matthew Brand	Experimental validation of new code to design radiation tolerant materials	UNSW Engineering	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States of America
Liam Acheson	Development of an Australian framework for the implementation of “methamphetamine-assist packs” to reduce harm of methamphetamine-associated psychiatric toxicity	UNSW Medicine & Health National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre	San Francisco Department of Public Health and the University of California, San Franscisco	United States of America
Nicole Townsend	The Greater Second World War and Modern Global Geopolitics	UNSW Canberra	King's College London	United Kingdom
Gonzalo Portas	Perceptions of Safety for Women and Girls in Public Spaces Through Innovative Cross-Cultural Design	UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States of America

Accelerator Grants

UNSW x Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST)

UNSW Academic Lead	Project title	Associated Faculty	Associated School
Lewen Wei	CareBots Across Cultures: Designing Inclusive and Culturally Sensitive AI for Older Adults’ Well-Being	Arts, Design & Architecture	Arts & Media
Zhenhai Xia	Collaborative Studies on Novel Carbon Nanomaterials for Targeted Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering and Biosensing	Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Chung-Li Tseng	Empowering Chronic Disease Self-Management by Leveraging Social Influence	Business School	Information Systems & Technology Management
Liya Zhao	Self-powered load sensing in human joint replacement implants	Engineering	Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Chuan Zhao	Robust Solar Hydrogen Production at Intermittent Conditions	Science	Chemistry
Mohammad Deghat	Personalized Cognitive-Motor Integrated Intervention Methods for Alzheimer's Disease by Leveraging Multimodal Large Models and Collaborative Robots	Engineering	Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Jie (Kevin) Ni	Adjuvant Autologous Tumour–Derived Exosome Vaccines for Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis	Medicine & Health	Clinical Medicine
Guan Heng Yeoh	Novel Arterial Vulnerable Plaque Imaging Feature Recognition Technology Based on 4DCTA and Advanced Image Processing Algorithms	Engineering	Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
Chris Pettit	VR4Inclusion: Co-designing autism-friendly urban spaces through wearable and VR technologies	Arts, Design & Architecture	Built Environment
Stevan Nikolin	Research on the Regulation of Frontoparietal Network Connectivity Based on Novel Precise Phase-Controlled Multi-Target Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)	Medicine & Health	Clinical Medicine

UNSW x Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

UNSW Academic Lead	Project title	Associated Faculty	Associated School
Wengui Li	Next-Generation Coastal Concrete: Recycling Marine Clay Solid Waste for Decarbonization and Enhanced Waste Management	Engineering	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Mirjam Wiedemann	Enhancing Logistics and Disaster Resilience through Advanced Air Mobility: Economic Impact, Operational Optimisation, and VR/AR Training Integration	Science	Aviation
Chang Liu	Robust Contracts in Experiment-Driven Companies: Screening through Incentive Alignment	Business	Economics
Junbum Kwon	Enhancing Customer Engagement and Retention through Multi-Modal Digital Marketing	Business	Marketing
Stevan Nikolin	Research on the Regulation of Frontoparietal Network Connectivity Based on Novel Precise Phase-Controlled Multi-Target Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)	Medicine & Health	School of Clinical Medicine; Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health

UNSW x Korea University (KU)

UNSW Academic Lead	Project title	Associated Faculty	Associated School
Cordelia Selomulya	Amorphous Solid Dispersion-Based Spray Drying Method for Improving the Solubility and Bioavailability of Edible Insect Proteins	Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Soojin Kim	Disengagement Scale Grounded in Cross-National and Cross-Generational Differences: Focusing on Sustainability Communication for Carbon Neutrality	Arts, Design & Architecture	Arts & Media
Rose Amal	Catalyst Design for Photoelectrochemical Green Ammonia Production	Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Jihyun Lee	Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy: Comparisons of Students and Teachers in Australia, Korea, China, and Taiwan, Results from International Large-scale Assessments	Arts, Design & Architecture	Education
Gavan McNally	UNSW-KU Fear and Addiction Research Initiative	Science	Psychology

UNSW x KU Leuven

UNSW Academic Lead	Project title	Associated Faculty	Associated School
Karin Sanders	The interplay of HR content, HR process and HR attributions in influencing firm performance and workforce well-being in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs	Business	Management & Governance
Adam Fish	Technological Innovation, Market Forces, and Energy Justice with Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	Arts, Design & Architecture	Arts and Media
Sushmita Ruj	Towards a Quantum Safe Digital Future	Engineering	Computer Science & Engineering
Sajjad Mofarah	High-Performance Na-Ion Batteries: UNSW and KU Leuven Joint Venture	Science	Materials Science & Engineering
Kim Delbaere	The EMPOWER Framework: A collaborative transcontinental approach to implement the World Guidelines for Falls Prevention in older community-dwelling adults	Medicine & Health	Health Sciences
Stuart Tangye	Leveraging inborn errors of immunity as a novel approach to delineate mechanisms underlying atopic/allergic diseases	Medicine & Health	Garvan Institute of Medical Research

UNSW x Mahidol University

UNSW Academic Lead	Project title	Associated Faculty	Associated School
Pall Thordarson	Development of RNA therapeutics for the treatment of inherited metabolic liver diseases	Science	School of Chemistry; UNSW RNA Institute
Hamid Alinejad Rokny	Multi-Modal LLMs for Precision Diagnosis and Biomarker Discovery in Southeast Asian and Australian Healthcare	Engineering	School of Biomedical Engineering
Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz	Strengthening Research Capacity to Accelerate Plasmodium vivax Vaccine Development	Medicine & Health	School of Biomedical Sciences