Outcomes

Allocations displayed below were determined in a meeting of the NCMAS Scientific Advisory Committee.

  • All values are kilo-service units (kSU). 1 service unit (SU) does not necessarily equal 1 cpu-hour. Please refer to each facility's documentation for more information on their charging rates.
Project ID Lead CI Institution Project Title Allocations (kSU)
Gadi Setonix CPU Setonix GPU Total
NCMAS-2025-78 Rey Cheng Chin University of Adelaide Flow control for drag reduction in rough wall turbulent boundary layers 2,100 9,500 11,600
NCMAS-2025-31 Federico Maggi University of Sydney Global soil and water resource in a changing climate 3,500 3,500
NCMAS-2025-82 Fabio Capitanio Monash University 4-D Numerical Models of Tectonics on Earth and other planets 1,400 1,400
NCMAS-2025-40 Ting Liao Queensland University of Technology Two-Dimensional Hybrids for Green Energy 1,000 1,800 2,800
NCMAS-2025-104 Sang Lee University of South Australia Novel whole-genome approaches to capture the latent genetic architecture of complex traits 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-155 Julian Gale Curtin University of Technology Atomistic Simulation for Geochemistry and Nanoscience 2,200 10,000 5,800 18,000
NCMAS-2025-150 Liangzhi Kou Queensland University of Technology 2D functional materials for physical and chemical applications 1,000 1,500 2,500
NCMAS-2025-81 Rongkun Zheng University of Sydney Atomistic simulation of advanced materials with combining first-principle calculation and deep-learning method: from microstructure to functionality 2,100 2,800 4,900
NCMAS-2025-89 Nicholas Williamson University of Sydney Dynamics of Intermittent and Suppressed Mixing Regimes in Australian Rivers 1,300 3,400 4,700
NCMAS-2025-101 Con Doolan University of NSW The aeroacoustics of turbulent flow interaction 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-157 Yuan FENG University of NSW Natural-disaster resilience assessment of civil infrastructure systems under climate change 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-28 Ziqi Sun Queensland University of Technology Two-Dimensional Oxides Supported Non-noble Single-atom for Fuel Generation and Storage 1,000 4,200 5,200
NCMAS-2025-91 Jared Cole Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The materials science of next generation quantum devices. 1,800 1,800
NCMAS-2025-146 Luming Shen University of Sydney Multiscale modelling of multiphase interaction in micro- and nano-porous media 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-141 Callum Shakespeare Australian National University Parameterising unresolved ocean dynamics and thermodynamics 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-98 Jack Evans University of Adelaide Simulations of emerging and conventional materials for gas separations and heterogeneous catalysis 5,000 1,000 6,000
NCMAS-2025-43 Andrew Christofferson Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Multiscale investigation of materials and biomolecules for health, environmental, and commercial applications 1,000 500 2,200 3,700
NCMAS-2025-80 Jason Evans University of NSW Regional Climate Modelling in Australia 1,000 2,300 3,300
NCMAS-2025-156 Joel Brugger Monash University Thermodynamics of the Earth’s metal factory 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-128 Bishakhdatta Gayen University of Melbourne The role of convection and turbulent mixing in ocean circulation 2,600 9,000 1,000 12,600
NCMAS-2025-63 Joanna Achinger-Kawecka University of Adelaide Establishing the Regulatory Function of Transposable Elements in Cancer 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-42 Eduardo Eyras Australian National University Molecular Mining of Environmental Samples 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-5 Georgina Falster Australian National University The role of Indo-Pacific SST variability in global drought occurrence 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-45 Li Meng Queensland University of Technology On the dopability of thermoelectric semiconductors 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-2 Aijun Du Queensland University of Technology Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Nanomaterials for Low Energy Electronics and Sustainable Energy/Environmental Applications 2,300 5,600 7,900
NCMAS-2025-105 Evelyne Deplazes University of Queensland Towards realistic models of membrane permeability and solute transport in biological membranes 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-116 Li Wei University of Sydney Exploring Heterostructure Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction through Data Mining and High-throughput Computational Analysis 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-130 Rhodri Davies Australian National University Revealing the 4-D Evolution of Earth's Engine 16,400 6,000 22,400
NCMAS-2025-74 Lars Goerigk University of Melbourne Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry Including Development of Computational Methods and Computational Materials Science 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2025-72 Matthew Field James Cook University Developing Bioinformatics Capability to Diagnose Infectious Diseases using Clinical Metagenomics 2,200 1,000 3,200
NCMAS-2025-59 Merlinde Kay University of NSW Australian Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-97 Christoph Arns University of NSW Multi-scale multi-physics modelling for geostorage applicatons 2,000 2,000
NCMAS-2025-44 Richard Edwards University of Western Australia Genomic and Bioinformatic Resources for Ocean Conservation and Management 4,700 4,700
NCMAS-2025-66 Ha Bui Monash University Modelling gravity-induced rock fracture and fragmentation flow in cave mining: bridging laboratory and field scales 2,800 2,800
NCMAS-2025-75 Alpesh Malde Griffith University Understanding drug and glycan binding at an atomic level. 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-37 Elizabeth Krenske University of Queensland Computational Design of New Molecular Technologies 1,000 2,700 2,300 6,000
NCMAS-2025-102 Richard Sandberg University of Melbourne High-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows in power generation and transport 5,000 9,000 17,000 31,000
NCMAS-2025-131 Weidi Liu Queensland University of Technology Advancing Thermoelectric Materials by Dual-phonon Engineering 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-119 Abhirup Dikshit University of NSW Flash Drought & Fires 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-95 Zhigang Chen Queensland University of Technology Using computational methods to develop thermoelectric materials 3,500 3,500
NCMAS-2025-121 Vanessa Hayes University of Sydney Resolving Prostate Cancer Health Disparities Through Population-scale Genomic Interrogation 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-94 Tim Gould Griffith University Advancing quantum chemistry methods for excited states and solvents 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-46 Haoxin Mai Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Halide Perovskite Optoelectronics Developed by Integrated Synthesis, Calculation and Artificial Intelligence Methods 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-123 Megan O'Mara University of Queensland Multiscale simulations of biological membranes, transporters and biopolymers 9,600 3,300 9,000 21,900
NCMAS-2025-34 Adrian Pudsey Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Aerothermodynamics of High Speed Flight and Enabling Technologies 3,600 4,100 7,700
NCMAS-2025-64 Cuong Nguyen University of Wollongong Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Aqueous Triblock Copolymer Lubricants in Metal Forming Applications 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-20 Mark Krumholz Australian National University Star Formation and Feedback in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium 5,200 9,200 14,400
NCMAS-2025-54 James Hane Curtin University of Technology Bioinformatic analysis of agriculturally important plants, pathogen and pests. 1,500 400 1,900
NCMAS-2025-107 Jodie Yuwono University of Adelaide Interfacial Design of Energy Materials 1,000 1,600 2,600
NCMAS-2025-7 Cheong Xin Chan University of Queensland Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Microbes from Diverse Environments 2,800 2,800
NCMAS-2025-109 Stephan Rachel University of Melbourne Designing a next-generation quantum computer 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-25 Min Hong University of Southern Queensland Computationally driven high-performance thermoelectric materials and devices 1,100 1,200 2,300
NCMAS-2025-84 Andrew Hung Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Discovery and Design of Neuroactive Peptides for Potential Treatment of Pain 1,000 1,200 2,200
NCMAS-2025-21 Tongliang Liu University of Sydney Machine Learning Accelerated Molecular Dynamics with Its Applications in Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction 1,200 1,200
NCMAS-2025-58 Francois Aguey-Zinsou University of Sydney Designing Non-precious Functional Materials for Efficient Hydrogen Storage 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-71 Lisa Alexander University of NSW Extreme rainfall in regional climate model simulations 1,600 1,600
NCMAS-2025-16 Michael Banner University of NSW Direct 3D Numerical Simulation of the Air Sea Interface 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-15 Baohua Jia Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Exploration of the protective effect and breaking mechanisms in smart conformal coating on various materials by MD simulation 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-49 Luca Casagrande Australian National University Modeling the Evolution and Spectra of Stars: 3D Magneto-Hydrodynamic Stellar Atmosphere, Non-Equilibrium Radiative Transfer, and Machine Learning Generative Models 1,600 1,600
NCMAS-2025-57 Jessica White CSIRO Using Machine Learning Force Fields to Enhance Understanding of Mineral Carbonation for Net Zero Solutions 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-1 Ekaterina Pas Monash University Development of Next-Generation Density Functional Theory 2,300 6,700 9,000
NCMAS-2025-36 Santiago Badia Monash University Towards large-scale forward and inverse solvers for multiphysics problems with moving interfaces 1,000 1,700 2,700
NCMAS-2025-11 Michelle Spencer Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Modelling Nanoscale Materials for Catalysis, Sensing and Device Applications 3,100 9,900 13,000
NCMAS-2025-65 Justin Leontini Swinburne University of Technology Oscillatory flows in complex geometries 6,800 6,800
NCMAS-2025-32 Julio Soria Monash University Investigation of the structure, evolution and transport properties of turbulent wall-bounded shear flows using direct numerical simulations 8,800 34,300 43,100
NCMAS-2025-111 Leon Chan University of Melbourne Numerical simulations of rough-wall boundary layers 1,000 2,600 1,500 5,100
NCMAS-2025-56 Ben Thornber University of Sydney Unsteady Turbulent Flows 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-135 Qiang Zhu University of Wollongong Multiscale computational methods development and insights into phenomena of chemical and biological significance 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-60 Daniel Chung University of Melbourne Direct numerical simulation of wall-bounded and buoyancy-driven turbulent flows 2,200 24,000 400 26,600
NCMAS-2025-136 Mark Thompson Monash University Transition, stability and control of bluff body flows and wakes 10,000 500 10,500
NCMAS-2025-127 Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne Buoyancy-Driven Turbulence: Gravity Currents and Solar Chimneys 1,000 8,300 16,300 25,600
NCMAS-2025-122 Gaetan Burgio Australian National University Uncovering novel antiviral defence systems in prokaryotes for new biotechnologies. 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2025-126 Susanna Guatelli University of Wollongong Development and use of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations for bio-medical research 1,800 1,800
NCMAS-2025-137 Aibing Yu Monash University Simulation and Modelling of Particulate Systems 4,000 4,000
NCMAS-2025-151 Zhenxiang Cheng University of Wollongong Emerging two-dimensional altermagnetic materials 1,600 1,600
NCMAS-2025-33 Matthew Silcocks University of Melbourne Exploring Natural Selection and Host-Pathogen Coevolution in Southeast Asia and Oceania 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-22 Zhe Liu University of Melbourne Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Energy Materials 8,000 15,200 2,000 25,200
NCMAS-2025-19 Katrin Meissner University of NSW Abrupt climate change events in the past, present and future 7,900 7,900
NCMAS-2025-53 Christopher Leonardi University of Queensland Direct numerical simulation of multiphase flows in complex geometries 1,000 1,000 2,000
NCMAS-2025-118 Xiaotian WANG University of Wollongong Topological phonons in solids 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-87 Kiet Tieu University of Wollongong Numerical Modelling of Double-Layered Hydroxyl Nanoparticles in Lubrications 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-73 Ravichandar Babarao Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology In silico design of nanomaterials for energy and environmental sustainability applications 2,800 5,500 200 8,500
NCMAS-2025-96 Simon Ringer University of Sydney Exploring structure-property correlations in advanced materials: Nexus between computational simulation and atomic resolution microscopy 7,500 10,000 5,000 22,500
NCMAS-2025-61 Maryam Ghodrat UNSW Canberra CFD Simulation of fire-wind interaction and its effect on buildings in bushfire prone areas 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-67 Xiaotao JIANG University of NSW Identify Novel Antimicrobial Peptides Targeting Essential Receptors in Multidrug Resistant Bacteria 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-99 Karen Wilson Griffith University Mechanistic insight into CO2 conversion to organonitrogen compounds 3,700 3,700
NCMAS-2025-48 Michelle Coote Flinders University Computer-aided Chemical Design of Catalysts and Control Agents 9,000 9,000
NCMAS-2025-154 Catherine Stampfl University of Sydney First-Principles Investigations of Processes and Properties in Catalysis, Coatings, and Devices 4,500 7,700 12,200
NCMAS-2025-112 Steven Armfield University of Sydney Large Scale Natural Convection Boundary Layers with Variable Fluid Properties 1,000 1,600 2,600
NCMAS-2025-139 Ira Cooke James Cook University Understanding and adapting to climate change through genomics of Australia’s marine life 1,500 1,500
NCMAS-2025-18 Robert Weatheritt University of NSW Creating an atlas of RNA transcript function and diversity across evolution 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-120 Martin Singh Monash University Understanding climate change and variability using idealised and comprehensive climate models 3,600 3,600
NCMAS-2025-148 Elizabeth Ritchie-Tyo Monash University Tropical Cyclone Studies 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-133 Yun Wang Griffith University Computer-aided materials design for catalysis and energy applications 1,400 6,800 8,200
NCMAS-2025-35 Chao Xiong University of Western Sydney Global Crop Microbiome Survey: A metagenomics-based workflow for identification of significant plant pathogens 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-144 David Wilson La Trobe University Quantum Chemical Molecular Properties 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-26 Duncan Sutherland UNSW Canberra Physics based simulations of wild fire behaviour 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-70 Nikhil Medhekar Monash University Nanoscale Materials: From Atomic Structure to Functional Properties 4,500 7,000 11,500
NCMAS-2025-14 Robert Edwards Flinders University Phage Bioinformatics 1,300 9,000 10,300
NCMAS-2025-6 Xue Yan University of Melbourne Moiré patterns in Bilayer 2D Materials: Database, Machine-Learning Potentials, and Structural Manipulation 900 100 1,000
NCMAS-2025-62 Haibo Yu University of Wollongong Computer simulations of molecular systems and computer-aided molecular design 1,400 4,600 4,800 10,800
NCMAS-2025-100 Ben Woodcroft Queensland University of Technology Large scale reconstruction of novel microbial genomes 3,900 1,000 4,900
NCMAS-2025-147 Yan Jiao University of Adelaide Design Clean Energy Conversion and Storage Materials by Molecular Modelling 8,800 2,400 11,200
NCMAS-2025-106 Junming Ho University of NSW Accelerating the Design of Novel Catalysts and Drugs through Computational Chemistry 1,000 1,100 1,500 3,600
NCMAS-2025-149 Steven Sherwood University of NSW Improving atmospheric modelling across scales 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2025-24 Toby Allen Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Mechanisms of ion channel function and modulation. 2,600 1,600 4,200
NCMAS-2025-8 Giuseppe Barca University of Melbourne Enabling Rapid and High-Accuracy Digital Design of Covalent Therapeutics 1,000 7,000 8,000
NCMAS-2025-103 Nicolas Flament University of Wollongong The influence of mantle dynamics on the evolution of complex life 1,100 1,500 2,600
NCMAS-2025-115 Khalid Moinuddin Victoria University Enhancing Wildfire Behavior Modelling for Predictive Accuracy in Fire Management 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-29 Vincent Wheatley University of Queensland Hypersonic Propulsion and High-Speed Aerodynamics for Space and Defence Applications 9,500 9,500
NCMAS-2025-113 Claire Vincent University of Melbourne Clouds, rain and Climate: Mapping a hierarchy of cloud, ocean feedbacks and rainfall processes to our global climate system. 2,200 2,200
NCMAS-2025-90 Sabin Zahirovic University of Sydney DES: Deep-time Earth Simulator 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-134 Edward Doddridge University of Tasmania Antarctic systems and future change 24,000 24,000
NCMAS-2025-51 Nicholas Chilton Australian National University First-principles simulations of electron spins 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-117 Martina Lessio University of NSW Computational insights into transition metal-based materials for sustainable technologies 1,000 1,500 2,500
NCMAS-2025-13 Lianzhou Wang University of Queensland Use of Computational and Numerical Methods to Investigate Solid Crystalline Structures for Renewable Energy Applications 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-110 Amir Karton University of New England Tackling Energy and Environmental Challenges in Regional Australia 1,500 1,500
NCMAS-2025-132 Adele Morrison Australian National University The Ocean’s role in the climate system: from kilometres to global scales, from weeks to centuries 17,000 17,000
NCMAS-2025-47 Liang Zheng Australian National University MotionNetLite: Video Dynamics Distillation for Scalable Models 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-55 Antoine de Weck Children's Cancer Institute Computational Exploration of Cryptic Exons as Small Molecule targets for Oncogene Therapy 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-108 Robyn Schofield University of Melbourne Atmospheric composition & chemistry modelling on global, regional & local scales 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-41 Hanna Suominen Australian National University Simulation of cortical microcircuits to understand brain dynamics and machine learning for marker discovery and monitoring in neurological conditions 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-85 Max Ward University of Western Australia Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimized mRNA Design Using Policy-Guided Walks 250 750 1,000
NCMAS-2025-4 Pramod Nair Flinders University Molecular dynamics simulations of protein-ligand systems: from structure function relationships to drug discovery 1,000 1,300 200 2,500
NCMAS-2025-52 Yuantong Gu Queensland University of Technology Phase Transitions of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) under Mechanical Deformations 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2025-12 Matthew Hole Australian National University Computational Applications in Equilibrium and Instabilities of Advanced Plasma Confinement Geometries 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-92 Luke Bennetts University of Adelaide Assessing wave–sea ice interactions in a coupled ocean–sea ice–wave model 2,100 2,100
NCMAS-2025-143 Chris Power University of Western Australia Experimenting with the physics of galaxy formation with the Solás Simulations Suite 1,000 2,900 3,900
NCMAS-2025-145 Judy Hart University of NSW Design and development of photoactive and catalytic materials for efficient solar-to-fuel conversion 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-88 Loretti Dobrescu University of NSW Indirect inference in high dimensional dynamic economies 3,400 3,400
NCMAS-2025-83 Alan Mark University of Queensland From molecules to cells: Probing the structural, dynamic and quantum dynamic properties of cellular components at an atomic level. 3,700 15,000 9,000 27,700
NCMAS-2025-138 Debra Bernhardt University of Queensland Molecular systems out of equilibrium: theory, simulation and application 1,000 6,100 1,400 8,500
NCMAS-2025-77 Mark Hoggard Australian National University Next generation forecasts of 21st century ground motion and sea-level rise across the Indo-Pacific region driven by global climate change 3,700 3,700
NCMAS-2025-27 Mohsen Talei University of Melbourne Developing predictive tools for cleaner combustion 1,000 8,000 500 9,500
NCMAS-2025-86 Rajib Rahman University of NSW Multiscale Multiphysics Simulations of Silicon Quantum Information Processing Units 7,600 7,600
NCMAS-2025-17 Hongwei An University of Western Australia Advanced numerical modelling for developing safer and more efficient ocean infrastructure 5,300 2,800 8,100
NCMAS-2025-129 Jen Li University of Sydney Spatial transcriptomics and genomic biomarker to drive precision medicine and better outcomes in kidney transplantation. 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-140 Samaneh Sadat Setayandeh University of NSW Ultra-wide band gap semiconductors for harsh environment applications 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-50 Seyhan Yazar Garvan Institute of Medical Research Applying OCCAMS molecular razor to study the role of EBV in MS pathogenesis 1,200 1,200
NCMAS-2025-124 Alexander Heger Monash University 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae 5,900 6,600 12,500
NCMAS-2025-10 Timothy Raupach University of NSW Severe storms under climate change in Australia 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-79 Anna Trigos Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre High performance compute for better personalised medicine for cancer patients 1,600 200 1,800
NCMAS-2025-153 Tyler Rohr University of Tasmania mCDrive: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Impact and Validation Experiments 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-142 Benjamin Noble Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Rational Design of Novel Catalysts and Precision Nanomaterials 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-125 Matthew Whiting CSIRO ASKAP Survey Science 2,900 2,900
NCMAS-2025-69 Ben Corry Australian National University Molecular simulation of membrane receptors, transporters and pores 3,000 15,700 18,700
NCMAS-2025-9 Matthew England University of NSW Past, present and future climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean 15,700 15,700
NCMAS-2025-68 Patrick Burr University of NSW Radiation-tolerant materials for fusion energy 1,100 3,500 4,600
NCMAS-2025-3 Adrian Sheppard Australian National University X-ray micro-tomography to probe the structure and properties of complex and hierarchical materials 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-30 Yongjun Peng University of Queensland The Interactions of Oxidised Starch Biopolymers with Gold and Pyrrhotite in Aqueous Electrolytes 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-38 May Pedersen University of Sydney Asteroseismic modelling of massive stars 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2025-152 Oleg Tretiakov University of NSW Magnetic and Thermoelectric Properties of Topological Materials 6,300 6,300
NCMAS-2025-93 James Zanotti University of Adelaide Quantum chromodynamics in focus: hadron structure and high-precision tests 4,800 6,000 17,000 27,800
NCMAS-2025-23 Carla Verdi University of Queensland First-principles design and characterisation of materials for quantum technologies, clean energy and spintronics 1,000 2,200 3,200
NCMAS-2025-39 Asaph Widmer-Cooper University of Sydney Computational Materials Design for Solar Energy Conversion 1,000 1,500 2,500
NCMAS-2025-76 David Pontin University of Newcastle Data-driven modelling of solar flares and eruptions for space weather prediction 2,400 2,400
NCMAS-2025-114 Evatt Hawkes University of NSW Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion 5,000 10,000 17,000 32,000
Total 355,200 349,950 171,050 876,200