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AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH STAFF EXCHANGE SCHEME (IRSES)

The Australian Academy of Science has awarded scientific grants totaling $100,000 to ten leading Australian research groups to participate in the European Commission's new Marie Curie scheme called the Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES).

IRSES aims to strengthen research partnerships through short period staff exchanges and networking activities between European research organisations and organisations from countries with which the Community has an S&T agreement, including Australia.

Funding for this activity has been provided by Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) through the International Science Linkages (ISL) program.

The ISL supports Australian scientists, from both the public and private sectors, to collaborate with international partners on leading edge science and technology in order to contribute to Australia's economic, social and environmental wellbeing.

IRSES participants 2009–10 and 2010–11

Researcher	Project	Host Institution
Dr Luis Mejias Alvarez School of Engineering Systems Queensland University of Technology	International Cooperation Program, for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Research and Development (ICPUAS).	Professor Pascual Campoy Cervera Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain
Associate Professor Muthupandian Ashokkumar Department of Chemistry University of Melbourne	Ultrasonic synthesis of protein microcapsules for biomedical applications.	Dr Gareth Price University of Bath UK Dr Francesca Cavalieri University of Rome Tor Vergata Italy
Dr Damien Batstone Advanced Water Management Centre University of Queensland	ANAMIX: a two year exchange programme on ANAerobic MIXed cultures to study and improve biological generation of chemicals and energy carriers from organic residues generated by agro-industrial activities.	Professor Jean Philippe Steyer Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France Dr Robbert Kleerebezem Technical University of Delft Netherlands
Dr Michael Battaglia Department of Sustainable Ecosystems CSIRO	TRANZFOR - Transferring Research between EU and Australia-New Zealand on Forestry and climate change.	Dr Jean Michel Carnus Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France
Dr Shelley Brown Advanced Water Management Centre University of Queensland	ANAMIX: A two year exchange programme on ANAerobic MIXed cultures to study and improve biological generation of chemicals and energy carriers from organic residues generated by agro-industrial activities.	Dr Robbert Kleerebezem Technical University of Delft Netherlands Professor Jean Philippe Steyer Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France
Dr Edoardo Daly Department of Civil Engineering Monash University	The goal of this research program is the study of the impact of such changes on rainfall (the source of water) and concomitant replenishment of usable water supplies (e.g. ground- and stream- water) given their high priority to any future water resource planning.	Professor Davide Poggi Politecnico di Torino Italy Dr Paolo Perona Eldgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich Switzerland
Professor Michael Dopita Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Australian National University	ACCESS: A Complete CEnsus of Star-formation and nuclear activity in the Shapley super-cluster.	Dr Paola Merluzzi Istituto Nazionale di Astropisica Italy
Mr Pillar Eng School of Engineering Systems Queensland University of Technology	Path planning and control for unmanned aircraft forced landing.	Professor Pascual Campoy Cervera Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain
Dr Biju George Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne	Impacts of climate change on water security.	Dr Claps Pierluigi Politechnic of Torino Italy
Mr Jim Gould Department of Sustainable Ecosystems CSIRO	Application of fire behaviour and fuel management in blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) plantations.	Dr Francisco Castro Rego Instituto Superior de Agronomia Portugal
Professor Paul Lant Advanced Water Management Centre University of Queensland	ANAMIX: a two year exchange programme on ANAerobic MIXed cultures to study and improve biological generation of chemicals and energy carriers from organic residues generated by agro-industrial activities.	Professor Jean Philippe Steyer Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France
Professor Alex McBratney Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources University of Sydney	ECOTOOL - Improving tools for sustainability assessment in forestry, agriculture and environment technologies: The issue of measuring and monitoring soil quality.	Professor Veronique Bellon-Maurel Montpellier SupAgro France
Mr Steven Mills Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation Queensland University of Technology	Navigation, guidance and trajectory planning for UAVs.	Mr Nabil Aouf Cranfield University UK
Dr Hassan Obied School of Biomedical Sciences Charles Sturt University	Use of nanomaterials for environmental and agricultural applications.	Dr Antonio de Martino University of Naples Federico II Italy
Dr Murray Peel Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne	Basin and large scale floods and water balance modelling.	Professor Gunter Bloschl Technische Universität Wien Austria
Dr Paul Prenzler School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences Charles Sturt University	Use of nanomaterials for environmental and agricultural applications.	Professor Juan Cornejo Instituto de Recursos Naturalesy Agrobiologia de Sevilla (IRNAS) Spain
Dr Adam Rennie Department of Mathematics Australian National University	Novel geometric structures.	Professor Tomasz Brzezinski University of Wales UK Professor Piotr Hajac Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Dr Danielle Ryan School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences Charles Sturt University	Use of nanomaterials for environmental and agricultural applications.	Dr Antonio de Martino University of Naples Federico II Italy
Associate Professor Andrew Western Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne	Modelling and forecasting of hydroclimatic variables in space and time.	Professor Gunter Bloschl Technische Universität Wien Austria
Dr Harry Wu Department of Plant Industry CSIRO	Virtual genes.	Dr Leopoldo Sanchez Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France