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The ARC's Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Funding ( LIEF ) scheme provides funding for large-scale cooperative initiatives, so that expensive infrastructure, equipment and facilities can be shared by researchers in partnered organisations. More than $30 million was awarded to 71 projects across the country in the 2010 round.

We are delighted with the outstanding success of Faculty staff with projects led by academics in the Faculty being awarded 3 of the 5 grants awarded to UWA , and involvement of Faculty staff in the other 2. A number of staff were also involved in successful applications through other Universities and these are listed further below.

Successful LIEF projects 2010 involving FECM staff:

Administered by UWA

CIs : Winthrop Professor John Dell; Winthrop Professor Lorenzo Faraone , Professor Chennupati Jagadish, Professor Tanya M Monro;
Partners : UWA, The Australian National University, The University of Adelaide
Integrated photodetector array fabrication facility ; $500,000

CIs : Winthrop Professor David Sampson , A/Prof Peta L Clode, Prof Shaun P Collin, Prof Ian Constable, Prof Mariapia Degli‑Esposti, Prof Sarah A Dunlop, Prof Svend P Klinken, Prof Nigel G Laing, Prof Peter J Leedman, Prof Barry J Marshall, Prof Paul G McMenamin, A/Prof Daniel V Murphy, Prof Jacqueline K Phillips, A/Prof Paul J Rigby, Dr Matthew J Sharman, Dr Philip A Stumbles, Prof Timothy G St Pierre, Dr Katherine M Trinajstic, Dr David Wacey, Prof Paul M Waring, Prof Charles R Watson, Prof George C Yeoh, Prof Ming H Zheng, A/Prof Mel Ziman, Prof John C Mamo, Dr Roger I Price, Dr Nicholas Gottardo, Dr Ursula R Kees
Partners : UWA, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Perth, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University
In-Vivo Multispectral and X-ray Micro-CT Imaging: Founding a Western Australian small animal imaging core facility ; $450,000

CIs : Winthrop Professor Dongke Zhang, Prof Yinong Liu , Prof Colin L Raston, Prof Victor Rudolph, Prof Mark J Biggs, Dr Peter J Ashman, A/Prof Sankar P Bhattacharya, Prof Wayne D Cook, Prof Maria Forsyth, Dr Shaobin Wang , Dr Eric F May , Prof Xiao‑Zhi Hu, A/Prof Hong Yang, A/Prof George A Koutsantonis, A/Prof Murray V Baker, Prof Jinhu Wu, Dr Killugudi L Swaminatha‑Iyer, A/Prof Joao C Diniz da Costa, Prof Behdad Moghtaderi, Prof Bogdan Z Dlugogorski, Prof Terry F Wall, Prof Eric M Kennedy, Prof Douglas R MacFarlane, Dr Timothy B Sercombe
Partners : UWA, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocessing Technology, Curtin University of Technology, Monash University, The University of Adelaide, The University of Newcastle, The University of Queensland
An advanced thermogravimetric analysis system for world-leading research in clean energy, catalysis, material science and nanotechnology ; $360,000

CIs : Dr Pauline F Grierson, Prof Gary A Kendrick, Dr Grzegorz D Skrzypek, Dr Jason B Fellman, Prof David M Bowman, Prof Kliti Grice, Professor Anya M Waite , Prof William D Stock, A/Prof Ray H Froend, Prof Paul S Lavery
Partners: UWA, John de Laeter Centre for Mass Spectrometry, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, University of Tasmania
A high‑resolution isotope facility for low cost analysis of  water, plant, and soil/sediment samples to understand  environmental change; $100,000

CIs: Prof Malcolm T McCulloch, Prof Peter A Cawood, Prof Mervyn J Lynch, Prof Robert J Wasson, Prof Paul S Lavery, Prof Anya M Waite , Asst Prof Ryan J Lowe, Dr Matthew R Kilburn, Dr Julie A Trotter, A/Prof Peta L Clode, Asst Prof James Falter, Prof Neal J McNaughton, Dr Karl‑Heinz Wyrwoll, A/Prof Lindsay B Collins, Prof Neil R Loneragan
Partners : UWA, John de Laeter Centre for Mass Spectrometry, Charles Darwin University, Curtin University of Technology, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University
Advanced Geochemical Facility for Climate and Environmental Change Research: a Western Australian/Indian Ocean focus ; $700,000

Administered through other institutes

University of Western Sydney: CI: Prof Dennis Burnham; FECM staff : Dr Roberto Togneri, Winthrop Professor Mohammed Bennamoun
Australian Speech Science Infrastructure: An Audio-Video Speech Corpus of Australian English and Indigenous Languages ; $650,000 ($18,000 to UWA)

University of Adelaide: CI Prof Tanya Monro; FECM staff : Winthrop Professor John Dell
Capability for the Fabrication and Characterisation of mid-infrared Photonic Materials ; $400,000 ($25,000 to UWA)

Further information on the outcomes and project summaries can be found on the ARC LIEF outcomes webpage .

Media references

FECM RDO Debbie Thackray / 6488 4765 / [email protected]