Faculty members awarded ARC research funding

Three Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment researchers have been awarded funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Scheme Awards. A total of 19 Deakin-led projects and awards were funded in the latest round.

Professor John Grundy, School of Information Technology, will lead an ARC Discovery Project that aims to invent domain-specific visual languages and support model-driven engineering-based infrastructure so domain experts can specify, generate and apply complex data analytics and visualisation techniques. It is expected to improve the productivity and quality of big data analytics and visualisation in critical domains.

Dr Emily Nicholson, Centre for Integrative Ecology within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, will lead an ARC Discovery Project that aims to test, design and select biodiversity indicators to support conservation. Reliable and sensitive biodiversity indicators are critical to track progress towards conservation targets, but the ability of most biodiversity indicators to reveal trends needed by decision-makers is untested. Project outcomes are expected to ensure that data collected to monitor and assess the state of Australia’s environment are informative, cost-effective and robust.

Dr Mylene Mariette, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, is the recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). Her project aims to reveal how birds program their offspring for a warming world, by communicating acoustically with their embryos.

Read more about the latest round Deakin-led ARC projects and awards