Performance

Finances

2021 Financial Statement

Financial Support

Financial Statement 2022 2023 Forecast
Income
ARC Grant $ 4,994,641 $ 5,226,262
Collaborating Organisations $ 1,179,248 $ 1,259,298
Other -$ 91,541 -
Total Income $ 6,082,348 $ 6,485,560
Expenditure
Salaries $ 4,283,293 $ 4,662,465
Scholarships $ 362,551 $ 338,249
Travel and Visitor Support $ 366,409 $ 388,750
Workshops and Conferences $ 362,498 $ 88,000
Equipment $ 116,946 $ 50,000
Lab Consumables $ 497,509 $ 458,500
Outreach and Communications $ 44,937 $ 60,000
Management and Administration $ 94,579 $ 182,223
New research strategic initiatives $ 984,258 $ 1,202,352
Total Expenditure $ 7,112,979 $ 7,430,539
Surplus/(deficit) for the reporting period -$ 1,030,632
Carry forward balance from 2021 $ 5,194,736
Balance 2022 $ 4,164,104 $ 3,219,125

In-kind Contributions 2022

Organisations Contribution
Collaborating organisations
The University of Melbourne $ 3,354,610
Monash University $ 1,698,743
RMIT University $ 691,366
University of NSW $ 747,604
The University of Sydney $ 806,209
 
Industry Partners
CSIRO $ 286,995
DSTG $ 36,500
RBA $ 108,767
 
International Partners
Shandong University $ 30,322
University of California, Berkeley $ 50,000
University of Bayreuth $ 75,000

Grants and Other Income

New Grants and Fellowships for Centre Members

Centre Members Project Title Funding Source Funding $AUD
Udo Bach, Jacek Jasieniak, Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Anita Ho-Baillie Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) $ 45,000,000
Mina Barzegaramiriolya BioInspiration Seed Funding Competition 2022, University of Melbourne, BioInspiration Hallmark Research Initiative $ 5,000
Inseong Cho, Alexandra Stuart Polariton Photophysics in Optoelectronics The University of Sydney - Cornell University Partnership Collaboration Awards (PCA) 2023 Round, The University of Sydney $ 21,000
Inseong Cho All-in-one turnkey Paios spectrometer for electro-optical characterisation of organic semiconductor devices Capital Infrastructure Grant, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney $ 144,476
Andrew Christofferson ARC Discovery Project $ 443,299
Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Tim Schmidt, Dane McCamey, Phoebe Pearce, Jon Beves Low-Cost > % Efficient Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells Achieved Through Singlet Fission Ultra Low Cost Solar PV Research and Development Round $ 4,800,000
Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, Phoebe Pearce High Efficiency Solar Cells for Space AirBus undisclosed
Daniel Gomez ARC Discovery Project $ 392,483
Liam Hall, Anthony Chesman National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant, Department of Defence $ 567,148.00
Anita Ho-Baillie Commercialising Si Perovskite Tandem in Australia Ultra Low Cost Solar PV Research and Development Round $ 2,780,000
James Hutchison 2022 HOKKAIDO-MELBOURNE JOINT RESEARCH WORKSHOP FUND University of Melbourne Joint Research $ 14,700
Kalim Kashif, Udo Bach Green Shield On Accelerate, CSIRO $ 20,000
Anna Köhler, Paul Mulvaney, Trevor Smith, Alison Funston, Udo Bach, Jacek Jaseiniak, Lars Goerigk Optical stimuli in organic and inorganic semiconductors: Understanding and control through external stimuli International Research Training Group, German Research Foundation $ 6,200,000
Jialu Li, James Hutchison Electroactive coordination polymers-A Solution For Reliable, Stable and Sustainable Energy Storage FoS E=mc2 Initiative, The Faculty of Science Research Office $ 40,000
Pegah Maasoumi Swinburne Adobe Innovation Grant, Swinburne University $ 3,000
Chris Ritchie, Lars Goerigk ARC Discovery Project $ 490,223
Ann Roberts ARC Discovery Project $ 537,521
Trevor Smith Portable He(l) cryostat Norman Thomas Mortimer Wilsmore Trust fund, University of Melbourne $ 24,524

Event Sponsorships

Event Name Dates
International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors Sunday, 26 June 2022 to Friday, 1 July 2022
AUCAOS 2021 - postponed Wednesday, 7 to Friday, 9 December, 2022
STA Science Meets Parliament 2022 - dates tba Thursday, 24 to Friday, 25 February 2022
17th Conference of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS 2022) Sunday, 26 to Wednesday, 29 June 2022
17th Pacific Polymer Conference Sunday, 11 to Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Early Career Women in STEMM paper & grant writing workshop Wednesday, 28 to Friday, 30 September 2022
inSTEM Conference Wednesday, 20 to Thursday, 21 July 2022
National Science Quiz Sunday, 7 August 2022
Outreach Project Element Sets for Schools Wednesday, 17 August 2022
KOALA 2022 Monday, 5 to Friday, 9 December 2022