The tables below list the proposals that have been awarded beamtime at the Australian Synchrotron. Proposals are listed by proposal round, with the most recent round listed first.
2024/2 Proposal Round
Lead Applicant | Institution | Beamline | No. Shifts | Experiment Title |
Emily Parker | VUW | BSX | 6 | Protein complexes and conformational change |
Vanessa Morris | Uni Canterbury | BSX | 6 | University of Canterbury SAXS Proposal 2024/2 |
Adele Williamson | Uni Waikato | BSX | 3 | Protein dynamics for new inhibitors and thereputics |
Ingrid Ukstins | Uni Auckland | IRM | 12 | Quantifying eruption pressure conditions from tephra glass volatile contents of the 2021-2022 eruption of Hunga Volcano, Tonga |
Anke Zernack | Massey Uni | MCT | 9 | Exploring the 3D microtextural characteristics of rhyolite pumice clasts and powders from the TaupÅ Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. |
Mohammed Abdelbassit | Uni Auckland | MEX1 | 6 | XANES studies on the coordination geometries and oxidation states of novel transition metal oxide clusters |
Jun-Xi Wu | Uni Auckland | MEX1 | 9 | Surface reconstruction of layered double hydroxide catalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media |
Tilo Soehnel | Uni Auckland | MEX2 | 3 | XANES studies of ruthenium in novel transition metal oxide clusters |
Marina Richena | AgResearch Ltd | MEX2 | 6 | NZ – preferred access MEX2 |
Emily Parker | Victoria Uni of Wgtn | MX1 | 3 | Protein Structure and Function: AgResearch NZ, Ferrier Research Institute and Waikato, Victoria and Massey Universities |
Matthias Fellner | Uni Otago | MX1 | 3 | University of Otago Structural Biology Group |
Chris Squire | Uni Auckland | MX1 | 3 | Auckland Structural Biology 2024 CAP Program |
Various | Uni Canterbury | MX1 | 0.7 | University of Canterbury Researchers with Projects in Australian-Led CAPs |
Emily Parker | Victoria Uni of Wgtn | MX2 | 5 | Protein Structure and Function: AgResearch NZ, Ferrier Research Institute and Waikato, Victoria and Massey Universities |
Matthias Fellner | Uni Otago | MX2 | 5 | University of Otago Structural Biology Group |
Chris Squire | Uni Auckland | MX2 | 5 | Auckland Structural Biology 2024 CAP Program |
Various | Uni Canterbury | MX2 | 6.7 | University of Canterbury Researchers with Projects in Australian-Led CAPs |
Matthew Cowan | Uni Canterbury | PD | 6 | Tracking the conversion of ZnO to mixed-ligand zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) and ZIF melts for gas separation membranes |
Aaron Marshall | Uni Canterbury | PD | 6 | Tracking the reductive phase transformation of zinc ferrites to leachable zinc oxide in industrial electric arc furnace dusts |
Martin W Allen | Uni Canterbury | SXR | 15 | Combined use of X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (Soft X-ray Beamline) and X-ray Adsorption Spectroscopy (MEX-2 Beamline) to investigate the effectiveness of sulfur treatments in tuning the surface electronic properties of SnO2, ZnO, and Ga2O3 |
Chang Wu | Uni Canterbury | XAS | 9 | Use In-situ XAS to investigate the evolution of electronic structure in highly efficient and selective OER catalysts for seawater splitting |
Adam Hartland | Uni Waikato | XFM | 6 | Testing a novel cave-based paleoseismic tool for New Zealand using past Alpine Fault earthquakes |
Michael Rowe | Uni Auckland | XFM | 9 | Understanding the significance of trace metal biosignatures in hot springs silica deposits |
Total No. Shifts | 142.4 |
2024/1 Proposal Round
Lead Applicant | Institution | Beamline | No. Shifts | Experiment Title |
William Kelton | Uni Waikato | BSX | 3 | Human antibody dynamics and the temperature-dependent structural behaviour of extremophile DNA-repair enzymes |
Jodie Johnston | Uni Canterbury | BSX | 6 | University of Canterbury: Protein Chemistry Collective Projects BioSAXS |
Joanna Hicks | Uni Waikato | BSX | 6 | Protein complexes and conformational change |
Bashiri Ghader | Uni Auckland | BSx | 6 | Solution investigation of proteins with biomedical significance |
Aaron Marshall | Uni Canterbury | IMBL | 6 | Imaging hydrogen and oxygen bubbles within porous transport layers to optimise the structure of low-cost AEM water electrolysers |
Lucille Chapuis | Uni Auckland | MCT | 9 | Revealing hearing in crustaceans: sound-induced motion in 4D |
Richard Haverkamp | Massey Uni | MCT | 6 | Collagen surgical scaffold structures |
Richard Haverkamp | Massey Uni | MEX1 | 3 | NZ – preferred access MEX1 Rare earth accumulation by microalgae |
Tilo Soehnel | Uni Auckland | MEX1 | 6 | Exploring the effect of Mechanical Milling on Rare Earth-Alkaline Earth Doped Manganites |
Richard Haverkamp | Massey Uni | MEX2 | 6 | The role of phosphate accumulation in algae in metal accumulation |
Vladimir Golovko | Uni Canterbury | MEX2 | 9 | Stability of metal-ligand bonds in metal clusters upon catalyst fabrication, activation, and testing |
Samuel Yick | Uni Auckland | MEX2 | 6 | Investigating the effects of doping in the Mg-ion battery cathode material- Mo6S(x-8)Se(x) (x = 0 – 8) and Mo4Ru2Se8 |
Duane Harland | AgResearch Ltd | MEX2 | 9 | Feasibility of mapping changes in sulfur-based protein cross-links in materials using medium energy X-ray absorption microspectroscopy (sulfur k-edge) |
Emily Parker | Victoria Uni of Wgtn | MX1 | 3 | Protein Structure and Function: AgResearch NZ, Ferrier Research Institute and Waikato, Victoria and Massey Universities |
Matthias Fellner | Uni Otago | MX1 | 3 | University of Otago Structural Biology Group |
Chris Squire | Uni Auckland | MX1 | 3 | Auckland Structural Biology 2024 CAP Program |
Various | Uni Canterbury | MX1 | 0.7 | University of Canterbury Researchers with Projects in Australian-Led CAPs |
Emily Parker | Victoria Uni of Wgtn | MX2 | 5 | Protein Structure and Function: AgResearch NZ, Ferrier Research Institute and Waikato, Victoria and Massey Universities |
Matthias Fellner | Uni Otago | MX2 | 5 | University of Otago Structural Biology Group |
Chris Squire | Uni Auckland | MX2 | 5 | Auckland Structural Biology 2024 CAP Program |
Various | Uni Canterbury | MX2 | 6.7 | University of Canterbury Researchers with Projects in Australian-Led CAPs |
Samuel Yick | Uni Auckland | PD | 6 | Investigating the low-temperature structural anomaly in the skyrmion hosting material Cu2OSeO3 upon Co doping |
Franck Natali | Victoria Uni of Wgtn | SXR | 15 | Spectroscopic understanding of the facile dissociation of molecular nitrogen at room temperature on crystalline lanthanide surfaces. |
Fryderyk Lyzwa | Uni Auckland | THz | 9 | Cryogenic THz Reflectivity Measurements of Transition Metal(-Oxide) Thin Films |
Shailendra Sharma | Uni Canterbury | XAS | 6 | Unravelling the Structure of M-doped RuO2 (M = Mn, Ni, Fe and Ir) Under Oxygen Evolution Reaction. |
Michael Rowe | Uni Auckland | XFM | 12 | Evidence of trace metal biogenicity in hot springs: preparing for a Mars sample return mission II |
Total No. Shifts | 160.4 |