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Celebrating Our Team's Achievements in Research Grants, Awards, and the Latest Headlines.
Research Award:
2025 ACIS-ECR Lectureship
The Australasian Colloid and Interface Society has awarded us with its 2025 lectureship for traveling around AU and NZ to present our research on Plasma, Magnetism and Polyphosphates. This award provides us with the opportunity to achieve broader recognition and exposure, develop our network, and engage activate collaborations.
Research Award:
2025 Selby Research Award
The Selby Scientific Foundation has selected us as an outstanding academic group and is supporting us to develop electrified platforms for chemical synthesis and to address increasing emission levels and climate challenges. This award will help support open-access publications, our undergraduate researchers, and our ongoing collaboration with Harvard University (USA).
Research Grant:
ARC Discovery Project 2025-2028
We have been awarded with ARC DP25 (a highly-competitive national grant) to develop self-healing ionic liquid lubricants for high-vacuum and high-temperature applications. This project will help address the urgent need to replace toxic components of current generation liquid lubricants to create safer, longer-lasting, more energy efficient formulations effective over a wide range of operating conditions. Chief investigator groups include Prof. Gregory G. Warr (USyd), Prof. Rob Atkin (UWA) and us! This project is in collaboration with ANSTO and the University of Oxford (UK).
Research Award:
Sydney Horizon Fellowship 2024-2029
by USYD Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
The University of Sydney's flagship fellowship scheme, the Sydney Horizon Fellowships, empowers the world's best and brightest emerging academics to undertake innovative research that will contribute to the common good by addressing the complex challenges of climate change, health and sustainability.
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Our research program of "using plasma and magneto-electrochemistry for solving energy and climate challenges" has been selected as the top 3% (among 1462 applications submitted from across 66 countries) to receive this prestigious award.
Our project aims include using plasma electrochemistry for scalable chemical production, developing magneto-electrochemical technologies for chemical separations and ionic motors, and designing solar-powered plasma devices to produce ozone and mitigate climate damage. Our methodologies encompass plasma chemistry, electrochemical synthesis, radical reactions, and device engineering.