Recipients January 2024
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals | Number of funded proposals |
| General | 94 | 14 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
|
New Zealand PI |
Institution | Project Title | Funding | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Oliver Lamb | Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences | Monitoring underwater volcano degassing using novel hydrophone technology | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Caudron | Université libre de Bruxelles | BELGIUM |
| Dr Thomas Buckley | Landcare Research | Next Generation Tools for Insect Biodiversity Monitoring: Identification using AI Imaging and High Throughput DNA Barcoding | 63,050 | 24 |
Professor Meier, Dr Price, Dr August, Dr Hobern, Professor Pylatiuk |
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Natural History Museum, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY |
| Dr Lorena de la Torre Parra | Massey University | Taura Here Tangata – Braided threads that binds us | 80,000 | 24 | Mr LE Avila | Jatun Yachay Wasi Institute | ECUADOR |
| Dr Michael Watt | Scion Research | Simulating wind and disease risk using digital twins in New Zealand forests | 60,000 | 24 | Dr J Suárez | Forest Research | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Brian Richardson | Scion Research | New models to underpin the potential of precision aerial agrichemical application | 75,480 | 24 | Dr K Fritz | United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service | USA |
| Dr Rosemary Frey | The University of Auckland | Perspectives on Telehealth for Palliative Care for Underserved Populations | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Collier, Associate Professor Allsop | Flinders University, Leeds | AUSTRALIA, UNITED KINGDOM |
| Professor Leo Cheng | The University of Auckland | Virtual twin of the gastrointestinal tract | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Gizzi, Professor J Cyron | University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Technical University of Hamburg | ITALY, GERMANY |
| Associate Professor Nicholas Rattenbury | The University of Auckland | Developing NZ's Capability in Optical Observations for Space Situational Awareness | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Chote | University of Warwick | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Matthew Pearce | The University of Auckland | Designing Cryogenic Porous GaN Transistors | 80,000 | 24 | Professor A Oliver | University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Emilee Benjamin | The University of Auckland | Mitigating stressors in the marine environment to restore and future-proof our coastal ecosystems | 75,500 | 24 | Dr Lagos | Universidad Santo Tomás | CHILE |
| Dr Sandeeka Mannakkara | The University of Auckland | Future-proofing Aotearoa's Resilience: Integrating Technological and Natural Hazard Risk | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Joerin, Professor Dr Sansavini, Mr Fairclough, Dr Hughes | Future Resilient Systems, ETH Risk Center , Neo Leaf Global Ltd, University of Canterbury | SINGAPORE, SWITZERLAND, NEW ZEALAND |
| Dr Graeme Woodward | University of Canterbury | Harmonic radar tags and passive sensing for biosecurity and biodiversity | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Hemour, Associate Professor Barbot, Professor A Beach, Dr Jactel, Dr Lavrenko | University of Bordeaux, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Bristol, INRAE, University of Twente | FRANCE, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS |
| Professor Renwick Dobson | University of Canterbury | Defining how pathogenic bacteria import antioxidants across their cell membrane. | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Eric Hanssen, Dr Nina Dickerhof | University of Melbourne, University of Otago Christchurch | AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND |
| Dr Simon Granville | Victoria University of Wellington | Light-driven science and technology enabled by magnetic materials at multi-scale | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Dmitriev, Dr Livesey, Associate Professor Malmström, | University of Gothenburg, The University of Newcastle, University of Auckland, | SWEDEN, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND |