Round 5 of the National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant program is open for applications, closing 21 February 2025.
Up to $365,000 over 2 years is available for research into one of the Research Topics.
Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or NZ Special Category Visa Holder and be within 10 years of receiving their PhD (excluding career interruptions).
The research must be undertaken at an accredited Australian university, with a Research Advisor who is a full-time staff member and an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or NZ Special Category Visa Holder.
Applications are to be submitted via Grant Connect: Ref GO7318.
Research Topics
- NIPG-2025-001 – Pressurised fresh water as a conduit for data transmission.
- NIPG-2025-002 – Maintaining information security of classified physical locations despite increasing wireless connectivity.
- NIPG-2025-003 – International horizon scanning for radicalisation in Australia.
- NIPG-2025-004 – AI in personnel security psychological assessments: exploring and examining technological capabilities to strengthen Australia’s protective security.
- NIPG-2025-005 – Loyalty in the modern Australian context.
- NIPG-2025-006 – Scalable and accurate entity resolution in the presence of low-quality data.
- NIPG-2025-007 – Enhancing the effectiveness of routine security scanning checks at border crossings.
- NIPG-2025-008 – Challenges in maintaining professional and personal boundaries online or in person with others.
- NIPG-2025-009 – Emanations simulation for secure facility design and construction.
- NIPG-2025-010 – Adversarial robustness of compressed models.
- NIPG-2025-011 – Effect of AI driven support systems use on the development of intuition and subject matter expertise in cyber security professionals.
- NIPG-2025-012 – Minimising time to recovery while maximising architectural agility in cyber systems.
- NIPG-2025-013 – Optimising sub word tokenisation techniques for low resource languages and or non-Latin scripts to enhance LLM performance.
- NIPG-2025-014 – Reducing uncertainty in a cryptographically relevant quantum computer timeline.
- NIPG-2025-015 – Understanding people through AI and big data.
NIPG-2025-016 – Cascading consequences: An approach to modelling and quantifying cascading failures in Australian critical infrastructure.
NIPG-2025-017 – Using AI to power synthetic biology applications. - NIPG-2025-018 – Advanced Techniques for Antenna-Receiver Performance Enhancement and Miniaturization (ATARPEM).
- NIPG-2025-019 – Development of high-throughput informatic tools to support proteomic analysis in complex samples.
- NIPG-2025-020 Bio-manufacture of quantum technology.
- NIPG-2025-021 Exploiting Biology for Overmatch Compute Advantage.
Documents
NIPG – Guidelines: 1. Round 5 – NIPG 2024-25 – NIPG Guidelines
NIPG – Research Topics: 2. Round 5 – NIPG 2024-25 – Research Topics
