Finances

2023 Financial Statement

Financial Support

Financial Statement 2023 2024 Forecast
Income
ARC Grant $ 5,226,262 $ -
Collaborating Organisations $ 1,176,655 $ -
Other $ 6,937 $ -
Total Income $ 6,409,854 $ -
Expenditure
Salaries $ 4,274,555 $ 2,505,584
Scholarships $ 385,286 $ 314,223
Travel and Visitor Support $ 337,106 $ 102,000
Workshops and Conferences $ 57,343 $ 117,000
Equipment -$ 12,063 $ -
Lab Consumables $ 441,133 $ 217,466
Outreach and Communications $ 45,693 $ 9,500
Management and Administration $ 120,383 $ 72,518
New research strategic initiatives $ 902,489 $ 118,000
Total Expenditure $ 6,551,924 $ 3,456,291
Surplus/(deficit) for the reporting period -$ 142,070
Carry forward balance from 2022 $ 4,175,772
Balance 2023 $ 4,033,702 $ 577,411

In-kind Contributions 2023

Organisations Contribution
Collaborating organisations
The University of Melbourne $ 2,933,621
Monash University $ 1,259,978
RMIT University $ 755,219
University of NSW $ 760,747
The University of Sydney $ 837,768
 
Industry Partners
CSIRO $ 256,481
DSTG $ 36,500
RBA $ 84,833
 
International Partners
Shandong University $ 20,000
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, Kalim Kashif Electrically Conductive Metal-Coordination-Networks – A new Platform Technology. National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant $883,849
James Hutchison FWO Senior Research Projects Flemish Research Organisation $70,000
Naeimeh Mozaffari, Jacek Jasieniak   Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) $32,000
Asaph Widmer-Cooper Computational Materials Design for Solar Energy Conversion National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme $52,000
Girish Lakhwani Low-cost Faraday rotators for next-generation optical devices DVCR Proof of Concept Funding $40,000
Inseong Cho, Girish Lakhwani Low-cost Faraday rotators for next-generation optical devices PERIscope Commercialisation Award $62,500
Girish Lakhwani Circularly polarised luminescence spectrometer Faculty of Science Research Equipment and Infrastructure Scheme $174,800
Wenxin Mao   Newton International Fellowships $797,000
Carol Hua   Women in Science Emerging Research (WISER) $25,000
Kalim Kashif, Udo Bach Novel Coating Technology for Stealth and Shielding Applications in Defence Australian Economic Accelerator Seed Grant $292,863
Girish Lakhwani, Alexandra Stuart, Inseong Cho Molecular Polaritonics USyd-Cornell Partnership Collaboration Award – The University of Sydney 20,000
Jialu Li Ultrasensitive Capacitance and Photocurrent Measurements 2023 Early Career Researcher Grant – The University of Melbourne $39,970
Mina Barzegaramiriolya Small/Wide Angle X-Ray scattering beamline Australian Synchrotron $32,784
Ivan Kassal Future Fellowship: Simulating chemical reactions on quantum computers Australian Research Council $1,114,292
Joshua Ezackial, Nicholas Kirkwood, Eliza Rokhsat, Yixiong Ji, Anglea Keyte Avail Solar CSIRO (On Prime) $4,000

Event Sponsorships

Event title Dates
Melbourne University Chemical Society Seminar, Prof. Klaus Boldt, A Toolbox to Make Complex Nanostructures: Strategies, Mechanisms, and Perspectives Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Melbourne University Chemical Society Seminar, Prof. Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, 'Solar power day and night – from thermodynamics to practical systems' Wednesday, 19 June 2024
International Conference on Quantum Energy 2023 Tuesday, 6 June 2023
Bettter Future Innovation Challenge Monday, 18 March 2024
inSTEM Monday, 18 September 2023
Ultrafast Spectroscopy Symposium Thursday, 15 February 2024
Australian Colloid and Interface Symposium 2024 ACIS Sunday, 4 February 2024 to Wednesday, 7 February 2024
STA Science meets Parliament Wednesday, 20 March 2024 to Thursday, 21 March 2024
ECR Women Writing Workshop Thursday, 28 September 2023 to Saturday, 30 September 2023
Shirty Science Wednesday, 31 January 2024
National Science Quiz Sunday, 27 August 2023