Awards

Recent Research School of Biology award recipients.

Ute Roessner

2022 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Giel van Dooren

2021 Bancroft-Mackerras Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology

Barry Pogson

2021 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

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The Research school of Biology has been celebrating the achievements of its staff and students since 1971.

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Selected awards

2023

2023 ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Awards
The Hermon Slade Foundation Project Grant
RSB 3 Minute Thesis - joint winner
RSB 3 Minute Thesis - joint winner
2023 ANZSMS Morrison Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society of the UK
The Hirota Naora Award
The Hirota Naora Award
The Hirota Naora Award
The Hirota Naora Award
Westpac Research Fellow
Lorne Protein 2023 conference, ANU Cryo-EM poster prize
Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

2022

College of Science Dean's Commendations of Excellence in Education 2022 - Excellence in Supervision
College of Science Dean's Commendations of Excellence in Education 2022 - Teaching Excellence
College of Science Dean's Commendations of Excellence in Education 2022 - Teaching Excellence (Team)
College of Science Dean's Commendations of Excellence in Education 2022 - Teaching Excellence (Team)
ACT Emerging Scientist of the Year Award
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Society of Crystallographers in Aust & NZ - Crystal Lite - Best Poster Prize
The Hirota Naora Award
ARC DECRA Fellowship
Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada

2021

College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Tutoring or Demonstrating
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Programs that Enhance Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Programs that Enhance Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Programs that Enhance Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Programs that Enhance Learning (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
ANU 3MT competition, Runner-Up
The Australian Museum - Eureka Prize, Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.
University Medal for Biology
University Medal for Biology
The D. G. Catcheside Prize
Bancroft-Mackerras Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology
RSB Outstanding Thesis Prize 2021
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Education Excellence
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence
ANU Chancellor's International Scholarship (Postgraduate International Applicants)

2020

College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Individuum)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education (Team)
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence
Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Education, for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
ARC Future Fellowship
2020 RSB Outstanding Thesis Prize
Canberra Citizen of the Year
17th Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference (AWITC) Conference Award
Janet Elspeth Crawford Prize
British Ecological Society 'Festival of Ecology' - Best poster
Runner Up Student Prize for Ecological Society of Australia and British Ecological Society (ESA) Outstanding Spoken Presentation
Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate

2019

RSB Director's Prize in Honours
Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology
Corresponding Member of The American Society of Plant Biology.
RSB Director's Prize in Honours
RSB Director's Prize in Honours
The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) - Peter Goldacre Award
University Medal
BirdLife Australia - D.L. Serventy Medal
C.D. Nelson Award, Canadian Society of Plant Biologists
Myrmecological News Best Paper Award
College of Science Professional staff & Excellence in Education award
College of Science Professional staff & Excellence in Education award
Jan Anderson ANU-NTU HDR Supplementary Scholarship
UTS Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers
Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Education - Award for Excellence in Supervision

2018

Bancroft-Mackerras Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology
Elected Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
President of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (from 2018 to 2020)
Senior Australian of the Year Award
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) President’s Award

2017

The Australian Physiological Society PhD research training award
ACT Emerging Scientist of the Year Award
ACT Scientist of the Year
Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership Award
Elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)
Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) - ACT Tall Poppy Awards
The Thinkable Academy - Peer Prize for Women in Science

2016

ASBMB Fellowship, 2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Peter Baume Award
The Australian Academy of Science - Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture
The Hermon Slade Foundation Project Grant

2015

ACT Emerging Scientist of the Year Award
Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
American Society of Plant Biology - Top Author
ANU College Research-Led Education Fellowship
Award for Outstanding Performance in an Administrative Leadership Role
Carnegie Centenary Professor
Finalist: Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research
JG Crawford Prize
Mary Lyon Medal
Peter Baume Award
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
The Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Contribution to the University

2014

Colleges of Science Award for Excellence in Education
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Rank Prize
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
The American Society of Plant Biologists - The Charles F. Kettering Award

2013

Einstein Professorship
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Foreign Associate to the US National Academy of Science
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Senior Tuckwell Fellow
The ANU 'Last Lecture'

2012

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Humboldt Research Award

2011

The Australasian Systematic Botany Society - Nancy T. Burbidge Medal

2009

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Post-doctoral Fellowship, NSERC

2007

Shared Nobel Peace Prize
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