| Chief Investigator | Project Title | Discipline | Total Awarded |
| Owen Atkin | Out of the darkness: predicting rates of respiration of illuminated leaves along nutrient gradients | Biology | $503000 |
| Emily Banks | Life history responses to habitat heterogeneity and implications for conservation | Environment and Society | $290000 |
| Michael Crisp | Distinguishing among patterns of extinction and speciation through geological and climatic change: a molecular modelling approach | Biology | $280000 |
| Megan Higgie | Diversity out of a hybrid zone: the interplay of reinforcement and sexual selection in the formation of new species | Biology | $320000 |
| Scott Keogh | Climate change and cryptic biodiversity in the Australian arid-zone: Molecular phylogeny-based assessment of conservation priorities | Biology | $230000 |
| Elinor McKone | Integrating holistic processing and face-space approaches to the perception of facial identity | Health and Psychology | $475000 |
| Ajay Narendra | Moving between day and night: Navigational strategies and foraging costs of temporal niche partitioning | Biology | $235773 |
| Graeme Price | Photosynthetically active bicarbonate transporters from cyanobacteria & their rational redesign for application in engineered crops that use less water. | Biology | $285000 |
| Bryan Rodgers | Consistency and continuity in childhood adversity: the nature and history of multiple disadvantage in families with young children | Health and Psychology | $240000 |
| Robert Saint | Discovering mechanisms of primary embryonic tissue migration through live cell imaging and novel genetic approaches. | Biology | $490000 |
| Ian Searle | Molecular and genetic analysis of epigenetic components in a model plant. | Biology | $793000 |
| Ian Wallis | Re-evaluating the role of tannins in Australian forest ecosystems | Biology | $262000 |
| Paul Waters | Origin and Evolution of Mammalian Dosage Compensation | Biology | $560000 |
| Spencer Whitney | Identifying potential barriers to transplanting modified forms of the CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, into plants. | Biology | $280000 |
| Nail Akhmediev | Dissipative soliton resonances and their applications | Physics and Engineering | $360000 |
| Ben Andrews | Analysis and applications of geometric evolution equations | Mathematical Science | $240000 |
| Martin Banwell | Generation of Novel Fermentation Products and their Exploitation in the Synthesis of Biologically Active Organic Compounds with Therapeutic Potential | Chemistry | $730000 |
| Michael Barnsley | Noncommutative Fractal Geometry: New Invariants. | Mathematical Science | $317000 |
| Jodie Bradby | Understanding structure-property relations in amorphous silicon | Physics and Engineering | $735000 |
| Conrad Burden | Statistical and Mathematical Analyses of Sequence and Array Data | Mathematical Science | $300000 |
| Duk-Yong Choi | Monolithic Integration of Silicon Waveguide and Ge1-xSix Photodetector on Silicon-on Insulator Platform for Intra-chip Optical Interconnect | Physics and Engineering | $360000 |
| Michael Dopita | The Chemical Evolution of the Universe | Astronomy and Astrophysics | $600000 |
| George Dracoulis | Quantum-number purity and limits to the formation of nuclear K-isomers | Physics and Engineering | $530000 |
| Keith Fifield | Assessing soil formation and erosion balances in the Top End with an expanded toolkit | Physics and Engineering | $290000 |
| Ivan Garanovich | Tunable shaping and switching of polychromatic light for integrated photonics | Physics and Engineering | $285000 |
| Peter Gill | Electron correlation models using morph operators and hybrid intracules | Chemistry | $280000 |
| Andy Hogg | Mixing and dissipation in the ocean: Processes for the next generation of climate models | Earth Sciences | $370000 |
| Mark Humphrey | Advanced Organometallic Materials: Syntheses and Nonlinear Optical Properties | Chemistry | $795000 |
| Anatoli Kheifets | Atomic Ionization on the Attosecond Time Scale | Physics and Engineering | $485000 |
| Patrick Kluth | Swift Heavy Ion Tracks in Semiconductors and Insulators: New Insights using Synchrotron Scattering Experiments | Physics and Engineering | $275000 |
| Michael Matuszewski | Nonlinear optics of soft matter | Physics and Engineering | $255000 |
| Malcolm McCulloch | Ocean Acidification in a Rapidly Increasing CO2 World | Earth Sciences | $670000 |
| Malcolm McLeod | Elucidating the Mode of Action of Nicotinic Receptor Ligands | Chemistry | $420000 |
| Shahar Mendelson | Asymptotic Geometric Analysis and Learning Theory | Mathematical Science | $255000 |
| John Norris | Galactic Origins: The Milky Way Globular Cluster - Halo Connection | Astronomy and Astrophysics | $325000 |
| David Ollis | Organophosphate pesticide degradation: evolved enzymes and biomimetics for bioremediation and medicine | Chemistry | $422000 |
| Gottfried Otting | New fragment-based drug design technology by NMR spectroscopy | Chemistry | $654000 |
| Ronald Pace | Bio-Physical Studies of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II | Chemistry | $410000 |
| Nicholas Rawlinson | Seismic tomography using signal and noise: A new window into deep Earth | Earth Sciences | $300000 |
| Mark Ridgway | Probing the properties of amorphous semiconductors with swift heavy ion irradiation and synchrotron radiation | Physics and Engineering | $435000 |
| Andrei Rode | Ultrafast photonic hammer: A new strategy to synthesise super-dense super-hard nanomaterials | Physics and Engineering | $320000 |
| Brian Schmidt | Exploring the Transient Universe | Astronomy and Astrophysics | $420000 |
| Matthew Sellars | Develoment of a quantum repeater | Physics and Engineering | $310000 |
| Daniel Shaddock | Digital Interferometry: A platform technology for robust optical measurements | Physics and Engineering | $550000 |
| Michael Sherburn | Experimental and Computational Investigations into Enantioselective Domino Sequences | Chemistry | $590000 |
| Rob Stranger | Metal Complexes for Activation and Scission of Small, Multiply-Bonded Molecules | Chemistry | $330000 |
| Paul Tregoning | Tracking the response of terrestrial and ocean waters to climate variations using space gravity observations | Earth Sciences | $480000 |
| Richard Welberry | Understanding nanostructure in lead-containing piezoceramics - the key to improved and environmentally-friendly materials | Chemistry | $390000 |
| David Williams | Polymer Globules: Beyond the Homopolymer Model | Physics and Engineering | $385000 |
| Jim Williams | Defect-induced luminescence from ion-implanted silicon: Towards silicon photonics applications | Physics and Engineering | $570000 |
| Zhiyong Xu | Nonlinear Surface Modes In Photonic And Plasmonic Metamaterials | Physics and Engineering | $255000 |