Research Fundings
Selected Research Grants (Total Research Funding: $8,762,119.36)
  • 2025  Creating a sense of balance: Understanding and enhancing electrical excitability of vestibular tissues (360K)
  • 2025  Characterising and investigating the links between intracochlear and circulatory biomarkers to develop patient testing to predict CI outcomes (487K)
  • 2025   Developing a Proteomics Platform to Pinpoint Biomarkers of Inner Ear Disease, Cochlear Macquarie University Joint Fund ($220k)
  • 2024   From Bundle to Synapse: Using Novel Tools to Understand Mammalian Balance Function for Translational Outcomes, Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) ($260k)
  • 2024   Developing closed-loop biosensors for integration with the cochlear implant, DVCR Co-funded Fellowship ($465K)
  • 2023   Lead CI on "Characterization of Contactile strain sensors", Contactile.ltd, seed funding, ($210k)
  • 2022   Lead CI on "Development of a portable array of electrochemical sensors for water quality monitoring", CSIRO seed funding ($320k)
  • 2022   CI on "Risk-based procedures for safe and reliable ORES, Blue Economy CRC, Industry collaborators in the project are Carnegie Clean Energy, DNV, BOC Limited, Optimal, and Pitt & Sherry), ($320k)
  • 2022    CI on "Work Health and Safety of Non-Destructive Digging and Asbestos Contaminated Soils", Industry Linkage project with the University of Western Sydney and EDP Consultants Pty Ltd (EDP) ($450k)
  • 2021    Lead CI on "In-pavement crack detection using strain sensors", SMART CRETE CRC, Transport for NSW (industry Partner) ($502k)
  • 2021    Lead CI on "Optimizing cochlear implant electrode for utilizing robotic surgery", Cochlear-MQ collaborative fund ($75k)
  • 2020    CI on "Linking Cognitive Technology and Sensory Systems to Support Personalized Learning (Extension)", MQ Seed grant from ITIC Training and Resourcing ($245k)
  • 2020    CI on "Intelligent Educational Knowledge Lake"; MQ Linkage: Cinglevue International Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, ($817k)
  • 2020    CI on "AI-enabled Industry: extending the taxonomy of technologies" (C); Funded by Federal Innovation Connections Grant; Linkage: Faethm Pty Ltd. and Macquarie University, ($700k)
  • 2020    CI on "AI-enabled Identity Verification, seed grant from Locii Innovations Pty Ltd, ($390k)
  • 2020    CI on "ARC LIEF. Project title: Multifunctional deposition system for advanced superconducting circuits (LE210100040)" led by the University of Sydney, ($700k)
  • 2019    CI on "Linking Cognitive Technology and Sensory Systems to Support Personalised Learning (CI)". MQ Linkage: ITIC Training and Resourcing and Macquarie University, ($243k)
  • 2019    Lead CI on "Electrode Array design (Lead CI)". Industry seed funding by Cochlear.Ltd, ($75k)
  • 2019    M. Asadnia (CI), Improvement to manufacturing robot for implant chip production. Industry seed funding by Cochlear.Ltd, ($70k)
  • 2019    Lead CI on "A compact and portable electrochemical gas sensor array to spot explosives (lead CI)". Australian Academy of Science, Research Collaborative grant ($100k)
  • 2019    Lead CI on "Micro-pattern generator Trustworthiness system for photolithography and direct-write experiments" MQRIS large, 2020. ($150k)
  • 2018    Lead CI on "CSIRO collaboration grant (lead CI), MOF-based electrochemical sensors for the detection of environmentally important heavy metals." ($80k)
  • 2019    CI on Australian Research Council LIEF (CI), Volumetric Imaging Facility: Observing the Cell in its Native Environment, ($1,5m).
  • 2018    Lead CI on Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC-DECRA), Ear-on- a-Chip: Nanosensors in Artificial Cochlea for Natural Hearing, ($385k)