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 Setonix Q Pilot Total
NCMAS-2026-4 Fengwang Li University of Sydney Advanced Computational Frameworks for Accurate DFT Simulations of Electrocatalytic Reactions 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2026-25 Haoxin Mai Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Halide Perovskite Optoelectronics Developed by Integrated Synthesis, Calculation and Artificial Intelligence Methods 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-2 Matthew Field James Cook University Developing Bioinformatics Capability to Diagnose Infectious Diseases using Clinical Metagenomics 2,200 2,200
NCMAS-2026-74 Zhenhai Xia University of NSW COMPUTATIONAL DISCOVERY OF NOVEL CARBON CATALYSTS FOR GREEN CHEMICAL PRODUCTION 6,800 6,800
NCMAS-2026-89 David Edwards University of Western Australia Analysis of complex genomes 4,000 300 4,300
NCMAS-2026-35 Min Hong University of Southern Queensland Computationally driven high-performance thermoelectric materials and devices 1,000 1,000 2,000
NCMAS-2026-29 Jared Cole Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology The materials science of next generation quantum devices. 1,500 1,500
NCMAS-2026-49 Jason Evans University of NSW Regional Climate Modelling in Australia 7,300 2,900 10,200
NCMAS-2026-88 Abhirup Dikshit University of NSW Flash Drought & Fires 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-12 Eduardo Eyras Australian National University A scalable computational pipeline for molecular design 1,900 1,900
NCMAS-2026-108 Adrian Pudsey Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Aerothermodynamics of High Speed Flight and Enabling Technologies 5,100 2,400 7,500
NCMAS-2026-7 Liam Scarlett Curtin University of Technology Atomic and Molecular Collision Theory 4,500 24,600 9,700 38,800
NCMAS-2026-45 Ravi Jagadeeshan Monash University Sticky polymers in flow: Nexus between microscopic and macroscopic dynamics 4,500 4,500
NCMAS-2026-91 Tanveer Hussain University of New England Computational Design of Electrode Additives for Sodium-Based Batteries 1,000 1,000 2,000
NCMAS-2026-13 Julian Gale Curtin University of Technology Atomistic Simulation for Geochemistry and Nanoscience 2,900 9,600 4,800 17,300
NCMAS-2026-26 Tilo Ziehn CSIRO Exploring climate and carbon cycle uncertainties through large ensemble simulations with ACCESS-ESM1.6 10,188 10,188
NCMAS-2026-101 Zhigang Chen Queensland University of Technology Design thermoelectric materials using first-principle calculation and machine learning 3,900 3,900
NCMAS-2026-104 Andrew Christofferson Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Optimizing liquid systems for catalytic, biomolecular, and nanomedicine applications 2,000 500 3,400 5,900
NCMAS-2026-14 Catherine Stampfl University of Sydney First-Principles Investigations of Processes and Properties in Catalysis, Coatings, and Devices 7,600 7,000 14,600
NCMAS-2026-53 Julio Soria Monash University Investigation of the structure, evolution and transport properties of turbulent wall-bounded shear flows using direct numerical simulations 10,000 31,200 41,200
NCMAS-2026-73 Steven Sherwood University of NSW Improving atmospheric modelling across scales 2,500 2,500
NCMAS-2026-71 Riddhi Gupta University of Queensland Quantum computing algorithms for biomedicine 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-58 Tongliang Liu University of Sydney Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Transition State Modeling 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-56 Christoph Federrath Australian National University From Interstellar Turbulence to the Formation of Stars 8,800 24,000 800 33,600
NCMAS-2026-107 Liangzhi Kou Queensland University of Technology Data-Driven Exploration of 2D Functional Materials for Physical and Chemical Applications 3,200 3,400 6,600
NCMAS-2026-44 Michelle Spencer Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Modelling Nanoscale Materials for Catalysis, Sensing and Device Applications 3,900 8,900 12,800
NCMAS-2026-82 Kiet Tieu University of Wollongong Numerical Modelling of MXenes Nanoparticles in Lubrications 2,800 2,800
NCMAS-2026-75 Junxian Liu Queensland University of Technology Electrocatalytic C−N Coupling for Sustainable Urea and Formamide Synthesis 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-79 Zhe Liu University of Melbourne Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Energy Materials 6,900 19,000 2,000 27,900
NCMAS-2026-41 Christoph Arns University of NSW Multi-scale multi-physics modelling for geostorage applicatons 7,400 7,400
NCMAS-2026-80 Steven Armfield University of Sydney Large Scale Natural Convection Boundary Layers with Variable Fluid Properties 1,100 2,600 3,700
NCMAS-2026-57 Lars Goerigk University of Melbourne Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry Including Development of Computational Methods and Computational Materials Science 1,100 1,100
NCMAS-2026-9 Jack Evans University of Adelaide Simulations of materials for gas separations and heterogeneous catalysis 1,400 1,400
NCMAS-2026-70 Ha Bui Monash University Modelling gravity-induced rock fracture and fragmentation flow in cave mining: bridging laboratory and field scales 3,100 3,100
NCMAS-2026-85 Ben Corry Australian National University Molecular simulation of membrane channels, transporters and receptors 5,800 12,300 18,100
NCMAS-2026-105 Katrin Meissner University of NSW Abrupt climate change events in the past, present and future 7,000 7,000
NCMAS-2026-42 Chao Xiong University of Western Sydney How climate extremes shape microbiome functions and plant disease 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-61 Giuseppe Barca Australian National University High-Accuracy, AI- and Quantum-Driven Digital Drug Design 10,100 12,500 22,600
NCMAS-2026-65 David Pontin University of Newcastle Probing the origins of the Solar Wind with global-scale MHD simulations 1,500 1,500
NCMAS-2026-95 Rhodri Davies Australian National University Revealing the 4-D Evolution of Earth's Engine 8,300 6,300 14,600
NCMAS-2026-32 Leon Chan University of Melbourne Numerical simulations of rough-wall boundary layers 3,300 3,500 1,800 8,600
NCMAS-2026-99 Nicolas Flament University of Wollongong The influence of mantle dynamics on the evolution of complex life 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-8 Luke Bennetts University of Melbourne Assessing wave–sea ice interactions in a coupled ocean–sea ice–wave model 3,400 3,400
NCMAS-2026-27 Fangbao Tian UNSW Canberra Bio-inspired Unmanned/Micro Aerial Vehicles and Aerodynamics on Mars 6,600 6,600
NCMAS-2026-50 Bishakhdatta Gayen University of Melbourne The role of convection and turbulent mixing in ocean circulation 2,700 11,000 13,700
NCMAS-2026-100 Tyler Rohr University of Tasmania mCDrive: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Impact and Validation Experiments 3,100 3,100
NCMAS-2026-67 Santiago Badia Monash University Towards large-scale forward and inverse solvers for multiphysics problems with moving interfaces 1,300 1,300
NCMAS-2026-16 Charlotte Petersen University of Melbourne Predictive Modelling of Metallic Nanoglasses: Structure, Dynamics, and Machine-Learned Glass Formability 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-6 Nicholas Chilton Australian National University Nanoscale magnetic memory elements 2,800 2,800
NCMAS-2026-20 Susanna Guatelli University of Wollongong Development and use of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations for medical physics applications 4,300 4,300
NCMAS-2026-60 Haibo Yu University of Wollongong Computer simulations of molecular systems and computer-aided molecular design 4,000 7,300 7,200 18,500
NCMAS-2026-38 Yan Jiao University of Adelaide Design Clean Energy Conversion and Storage Materials by Molecular Modelling 8,800 1,200 1,200 11,200
NCMAS-2026-34 Mark Krumholz Australian National University Star Formation and Feedback in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium 10,000 12,300 22,300
NCMAS-2026-72 Daniel Chung University of Melbourne Direct numerical simulation of wall-bounded and buoyancy-driven turbulent flows 1,600 25,000 700 27,300
NCMAS-2026-84 Nikhil Medhekar Monash University Nanoscale Materials: From Atomic Structure to Functional Properties 9,600 9,800 19,400
NCMAS-2026-40 Ekaterina Pas Monash University Development of Next-Generation Density Functional Theory 7,400 1,000 8,400
NCMAS-2026-66 Rajib Rana Australian University Closing the Causality Gap: A Computational Framework for Validating Allosteric Drug Mechanisms 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-97 Jessica Jein White CSIRO Quantum vs Classical: Investigating Geochemically Relevant Small Molecules on Setonix-Q 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-54 Amir Karton University of New England AI-Driven Discovery for Regional Australia: Predictive Quantum Chemistry for Energy and Water Solutions 2,000 2,000
NCMAS-2026-10 Lisa Alexander University of NSW Extreme rainfall in regional climate model simulations 2,900 2,900
NCMAS-2026-39 Lei Wang Griffith University LiteMotion: Learning Efficient and Scalable Video Motion Representations 2,400 2,400
NCMAS-2026-3 Simon Ringer University of Sydney Exploring structure-property correlations in advanced materials: Nexus between computational simulation and atomic resolution microscopy 7,000 1,500 8,500
NCMAS-2026-64 Hrvoje Tkalčić Australian National University Seismological Studies of Earthquakes and Earth’s Internal Structure at a Plate Boundary 4,000 4,000
NCMAS-2026-93 Luca Casagrande Australian National University Modelling the Evolution and Spectra of Stars: 3D Magneto-Hydrodynamic Stellar Atmosphere, Non-Equilibrium Radiative Transfer, and Machine Learning Generative Models 8,500 8,500
NCMAS-2026-81 Karen Wilson Griffith University Elucidating CO2-to-Organonitrogen Conversion via Enhanced Sampling Simulations with Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials 2,500 2,500
NCMAS-2026-103 Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne Fluid Mechanics in Environmental Sustainability: Numerical Simulations, Data-Driven Insights and Mathematical Models 5,100 9,800 7,200 22,100
NCMAS-2026-63 Angli Xue Garvan Institute of Medical Research Identifying and characterising gene regulatory networks of autoimmune diseases at single-cell resolution 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-83 Francesco Campaioli Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Controlling the relaxation rate of Rydberg atom arrays 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-1 Huijun Li University of Wollongong Accelerating Single Atomic Catalyst Design for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction through Synergy of Advanced Computational Machine Learning Techniques 1,700 1,700
NCMAS-2026-96 Claire Vincent University of Melbourne Clouds, rain and Climate: Mapping a hierarchy of cloud, ocean feedbacks and rainfall processes to our global climate system. 5,100 5,100
NCMAS-2026-11 Nehad Elsalamouny University of Wollongong Computer Simulations of Biomolecular Systems: Unveiling Mechanisms and Functions 400 600 1,000
NCMAS-2026-46 Christopher Leonardi University of Queensland Direct numerical simulation of multiphase flows in complex geometries 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-51 Xiaotian WANG University of Wollongong Topological phonons in solids 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-17 Tiffany Walsh Deakin University Development and application of nano interfacial simulations 2,300 2,300
NCMAS-2026-68 Mark Thompson Monash University Transition, stability and control of bluff body flows and wakes 1,800 1,800
NCMAS-2026-62 Edward Doddridge University of Tasmania Antarctic systems and future change 9,000 9,000
NCMAS-2026-98 Junming Ho University of NSW Accelerating the Design of Novel Catalysts and Drugs through Computational Chemistry 3,700 600 5,400 9,700
NCMAS-2026-47 Matthew England University of NSW Past, present and future climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean 9,700 9,700
NCMAS-2026-52 James Zanotti University of Adelaide Quantum chromodynamics in focus: hadron structure and high-precision tests 6,200 11,500 12,300 1,000 31,000
NCMAS-2026-76 Alan Mark University of Queensland From molecules to cells: Probing the structural, dynamic and quantum dynamic properties of cellular components at an atomic level. 4,900 14,600 9,800 29,300
NCMAS-2026-59 Judy Hart University of NSW Design and development of photoactive and catalytic materials for efficient solar conversion 2,500 2,500
NCMAS-2026-5 Adele Morrison Australian National University The Ocean’s role in the climate system: from kilometres to global scales, from weeks to centuries 9,200 9,200
NCMAS-2026-19 Stephan Rachel University of Melbourne Testing a next-generation quantum computer under real-world conditions 2,200 2,200
NCMAS-2026-90 Anna Trigos Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre High performance compute for better personalised medicine for cancer patients 1,700 1,700 3,400
NCMAS-2026-33 Joanna Achinger-Kawecka University of Adelaide Establishing the Regulatory Function of Transposable Elements in Cancer 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-102 Richard Sandberg University of Melbourne High-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows in power generation and transport 5,000 9,000 12,800 6,000 32,800
NCMAS-2026-55 Cheong Xin Chan University of Queensland Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Microbes from Diverse Marine Environments 7,300 7,300
NCMAS-2026-77 Vincent Wheatley University of Queensland Advancing the Science of Hypersonic Propulsion and Aerothermodynamics 11,200 11,200
NCMAS-2026-18 Michelle Coote Flinders University Computer-aided Chemical Design of Catalysts and Control Agents 9,100 9,100
NCMAS-2026-92 Xiaoguang Duan University of Adelaide Molecular Insights into Single Atom Catalysis for Water Decontamination 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-28 Robert Edwards Flinders University Combining metagenomics and AI to discover and understand novel bacteriophages and viruses 3,300 12,600 15,900
NCMAS-2026-15 Ben Woodcroft Queensland University of Technology Large scale reconstruction of novel microbial genomes 4,400 4,400
NCMAS-2026-86 Fatemeh Vafaee University of NSW AI-Driven Precision Medicine and Drug Discovery 2,000 2,000
NCMAS-2026-31 Rajib Rahman University of NSW Multiscale Multiphysics Simulations of Silicon Quantum Information Processing Units 8,800 8,800
NCMAS-2026-87 Evatt Hawkes University of NSW Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion 5,500 17,700 12,600 35,800
NCMAS-2026-24 Kasimir Gregory University of New England GPU-Accelerated Molecular Simulations for Circular-Economy Photovoltaics 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-30 Emilio Echevarria CSIRO Hybrid Modelling of Coastal Hazards Using Synthetic Tropical Cyclones and Machine Learning Surrogate Models 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-69 Toby Allen Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Mechanisms of ion channel function and modulation. 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-48 Debra Bernhardt University of Queensland Molecular systems out of equilibrium: theory, simulation and application 2,000 8,000 2,700 12,700
NCMAS-2026-94 Olga Zinovieva UNSW Canberra High performance process-structure-property-performance simulations for advanced manufacturing 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-37 Mohsen Talei University of Melbourne Developing predictive tools for cleaner combustion 4,000 7,600 11,600
NCMAS-2026-36 Megan O'Mara University of Queensland Multiscale Simulations for Precision Biotechnology: Molecular Self-Assembly in Dynamic Environments 7,700 7,500 6,400 21,600
NCMAS-2026-106 Albert Henry Garvan Institute of Medical Research DINGO: Drug Target Identification using Next-Generation Omics 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-21 Hongwei An University of Western Australia Advanced numerical modelling for developing safer and more efficient ocean infrastructure 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-43 Carla Verdi University of Queensland First-principles design and characterisation of materials for quantum technologies, clean energy and spintronics 3,500 3,200 6,700
NCMAS-2026-23 Bram Hoex University of NSW Agentic Multimodal Large-Language-Model Framework for Autonomous De Novo Inorganic Crystal Design 1,000 1,000
NCMAS-2026-22 Alexander Heger Monash University 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae 6,300 7,400 13,700
NCMAS-2026-78 Gemma Galbraith James Cook University Resolving Depth-Dependent Connectivity 1,000 1,000
Total 384,888 325,000 160,000 12,000 881,888