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Discovery Project success in Mathematics & Statistics

Several staff members in the School of Mathematics and Statistics were successful in the most recent round of Australian Research Council funding.

Published on the 27 November 2024 by Susannah Waters
Susannah Waters Susannah Waters
Anita B. Lawrence Centre

Several academic staff members of the School of Mathematics and Statistics were successful in securing Australian Research Council (ARC) grants under the Discovery Projects scheme for 2025.

Those confirmed for ARC Discovery Projects in 2025 are Professors Guoyin Li and Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, who received two grants; Professor Catherine Greenhill, Dr Mikhail Isaev, Associate Professor Anita Liebenau, and Dr Mareike Dressler.  

They collectively secured over $1.5 million in funding for their projects:

  • Probabilistic methods for complex discrete structures (Catherine Greenhill; Mikhail Isaev; Anita Liebenau; Brendan McKay; Ian Wanless)
  • Taming Hard Optimization in Measure Spaces for Modern Applications (Guoyin Li; Vaithilingam Jeyakumar; Radu Bot; Boris Mordukhovich)
  • Quantifying Uncertainty of Risk-Aware Optimization for Safe Decision-Making (Vaithilingam Jeyakumar; Guoyin Li; Mareike Dressler; Immanuel Bomze).
Pictured above, L-R: Catherine Greenhill, Mikhail Isaev, Anita Liebenau, Mareike Dressler, Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, Guoyin Li.

A flagship scheme for fundamental research and the largest scheme under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program, Discovery Projects provide funding of between $30,000 and $500,000 each year for up to five consecutive years. 

In total, 64 UNSW projects have been provided more than $41million in this round of competitive grants from the ARC.

Congratulations to our colleagues above!