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Recipients April 2018 Call

Catalyst: Seeding

Funding round overview

Programme	Number of received proposals	Number of funded proposals
General	52	10

Recipients Catalyst: Seeding General

NZ PI	Institution	Project title	Funding (GST Excl)	Months	Collaboration Partners	Collaborator Institutions	Collaborator Countries
Dr Stephen Bannister	GNS Science	Small earthquakes in Big data: systematic detection of low-frequency seismicity in the Hikurangi margin	59,330	24	Dr WB Frank, Professor J Townend	University of Southern California, Victoria University of Wellington	USA, NZ
Dr Alona Ben-Tal	Massey University	The physiological significance of cardiorespiratory interactions: bridging between data analysis, mathematical theory and physiological models.	80,000	24	Professor A Stefanovska	Lancaster University	UNITED KINGDOM
Professor Shane Telfer	Massey University	Metal-organic Framework Glasses as Next-Generation Porous Materials	80,000	24	Dr TD Bennett	University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
Dr Jonathan Kitchen	Massey University	Molecular Machines in Medicine: novel Ln(III) containing interlocked architectures for advanced diagnostics	72,150	24	Professor SM Goldup	University of Southampton	UNITED KINGDOM
Dr Peter Sperlich	NIWA	Establishing community reference gases for isotope ratios in atmospheric CH4	80,000	24	Dr M Moossen, Mr BH Vaughn, Dr D Lowry, Professor T Roeckmann, Dr T Umezawa, Dr OA Tarasova	Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, INSTAAR - University of Colorado, Royal Holloway, University of London, Utrecht University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)	GERMANY, USA, UNITED KINGDOM, THE NETHERLANDS, JAPAN, SWITZERLAND
Associate Professor Ewan Tempero	The University of Auckland	How Debugging Feels: A Neuropsychological Evaluation of Programmers’ Strategies for Fixing Errors in Software	80,000	24	Professor R Kazman	University of Hawaii at Mānoa	USA
Associate Professor Jonathan Sperry	The University of Auckland	Sustainable Organosulfur Synthesis	49,700	24	Associate Professor XH Zeng	Xiamen University	CHINA
Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick	The University of Auckland	Investing in our future: a Cochrane child and youth mental health initiative	80,000	24	Professor RC Churchill, Professor PD McGorry, Dr Fortune	University of York, University of Melbourne, University of Otago	UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA
Associate Professor Tim Woodfield	University of Otago	Nanoscale 3D-bioassembly of clinically relevant orthopaedic replacement grafts	79,855	24	Professor Dalton	University of Würzburg	GERMANY
Professor Bart Ellenbroek	Victoria University of Wellington	Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) A window into the brain	79,500	24	Professor BS Lin	National Chiao Tung University	TAIWAN