LIEF supports $8 million in new facilities

Five University of Adelaide projects have received more than $8 million in funding from the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant scheme.

The grants will support a testing facility for underground hydrogen storage; a study system to understand more about surface chemistry using cutting-edge X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS); two facilities for the evaluation of gene-edited and modified crop plants; a facility for testing optical aberration correction schemes for the world’s gravitational wave detectors; and access to CERN's Large Hadron Collider and the intensity frontier at Japan's SuperKEKB collider.

The LIEF scheme provides funding for acquisition for key research equipment and infrastructure, allowing Australian researchers to undertake excellent basic and applied research and training.

It also supports cooperative initiatives to allow Australian researchers access to expensive facilities nationally and internationally.