title: Federation Fellowship
text: # Federation Fellowship
  
  Federation Fellowships are Australian professorial research fellowships that were instigated by the Australian Government as part of its Backing Australia's Ability initiative. They were initially designed to compete with prestigious overseas grants in an attempt to lure back high-profile Australian researchers from foreign institutions. The first round of Fellowships in 2001 were awarded to 15 researchers, 6 of whom were working overseas at the time.
  
  New funding to the scheme ceased in 2008, with existing fellowships continuing as before. It was replaced by the Australian Laureate Fellowships.
  
  ## 2001 Fellowships
  
  There were nn applications, 15 recommendations and 14 acceptances.
  
  | Professor Robert Clark Professor Max Coltheart Professor Michael Dopita Professor Huw Price Professor Lenore Manderson | Professor Martin Green Professor Graham Goodwin Professor Mandavarn Srinivasan Professor Keith Nugent Professor Yiu-wing Mai | Professor Gottfried Otting Dr Frank Caruso Professor John Braithwaite Dr Benjamin Eggleton |
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  ## 2002 Fellowships
  
  There were 87 applications, 11 recommendations and nn acceptances.
  
  | Professor Max Coltheart Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte Professor Ronald Ekers Professor Terence Hughes | Professor Graeme Hugo Professor Yuri Kivshar Professor Trevor Lamb Dr Catherine Stampfl | Professor David Trimm Professor Rodney Tucker Dr Simon Turner Professor Mark von Itzstein |
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  ## 2003 Fellowships
  
  There were 97 applications, 24 recommendations and nn acceptances.
  
  * Bachor, Bartlett, Bilek, Burrage, Drummond, Ducker,
  * Francey, Holmes, Johnson, Kemp, Lu, Luther-Davies,
  * Lynch, Maschmeyer, Middelberg, Milburn, Quiggin, Renfree,
  * Robinson, Shaw, Simmons, Tester,
  
  ## 2004 Fellowships
  
  There were 143 applications, 25 recommendations and nn acceptances.
  
  | Professor Mark Bradford Professor Richard Brent Associate Professor Ashley Bush Professor David Chalmers Professor Alan Cooper Professor Stephen Crain Professor Simon Grant Professor Paul Griffiths Professor David Hill | Professor Peter Hodgson Professor Ary Hoffman Professor Stephen Hyde Professor Chennupati Jagadish Professor Alan Mark Professor Michael Nielsen Professor Philip Pettit Professor Leigh Simmons Professor Stephen Simpson | Professor Scott Sloan Professor Steven M Smith Professor Mathias Trau Dr Jill Trewhella Associate Professor Howard Wiseman Associate Professor Rachel Wong Professor Bernard Wood |
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  ## 2005 Fellowships
  
  163 proposals and 25 were approved for funding.
  
  ## 2006 Fellowships
  
  Selection Bios
  
  ## 2007 Fellowships
  
  Selection Bios
  
  ## 2008 Fellowships
  
  Selection Bios
  
  