2012 Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships

Over eighty applications were received for the 2012 Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Fellowships were awarded for 1 or 3 years, with additional Fellowships dedicated to designated priority areas in SMART and Informatics.

One Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in the general category were awarded to:

Candidate	Project title	Faculty
Wenxian Li	Transition metal oxides – achieving superior catalytic properties through application of high magnetic field processing	ISEM/AIIM
Lowell Bautista	Diffusing tensions in the South China Sea: The role of institutions and mechanisms in	ANCORS/Law
David Roberts	Resolving estuary-restricted fish population dynamics	ICBEM/Science
Andrew Nattestad	Advanced thin-film organic solar cell architectures incorporating a highly efficient photon up-conversion system	IPRI/AIIM

Three Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in the general category were awarded to:

Candidate	Project	School/Faculty
Jenny Fisher	Sources and transport of short-lived pollutants in the Australasian atmosphere		Chemistry/Science
Bo Li	Next generation luminescence dating techniques for archaeological and geosciences applications		CAS/Science
Deborah Mayerson	Why not genocide? Exploring factors that inhibit genocide in at-risk nations		ISTR/Arts
Ting Liao	Density functional theory design of quantum Dots/2D Semiconductor Heterostructures for Solar Energy Application		ISEM/AIIM

One Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in the priority areas were awarded to:

Candidate	Project	School/Faculty
Fenghui Ren	A multi-agent solution for Smart Grid	SMART
Reza Reyhanitaba	Security properties of cryptographic hash functions and their applications	Informatics
Mohammad Namazi Rad	Generating a close to reality synthetic population for Australia	SMART

Three Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in the priority areas were awarded to:

Candidate	Project	School/Faculty
Guanghua Lian	The pricing and calibration of volatility derivatives	Informatics
Yong Yu	Research on novel cryptographic techniques for secure cloud data storage	Informatics
Luping Zhao	Effectively predicting mild cognitive impairment converters for Alzheimer's Disease: a machine learning approach based on enriched information	Informatics
Weilang Zhao	Green infrastructure: smart energy, people and cities	SMART
Ahmad Haidar	Protection and control design for smart electricity grids containing renewable energy resources	SMART
Michelle Dunbar	Strategic constraint-based modelling for optimising freight-train sequences in commodity transport planning	SMART