Awards

Recent Research School of Biology award recipients.

  • 2024 Fenner Medal

    2024 Fenner Medal »

    Marine ecologist Associate Professor Sequeira has won the Fenner Medal for her work tracking ocean giants like the whale shark and the threats they face.
Michael Taleski

Michael Taleski

2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

Hendry Susila

Hendry Susila

2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

Emily Roycroft

Emily Roycroft

2023 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Academic Excellence

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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

2025

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)

2024

Bridget Ogilvie Medal
Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment
Falling Walls Lab Australia - Finalist
The Fenner Medal

2023

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Early Career Academic Excellence
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Education - Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Supervision
College of Science Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Tutoring or Demonstrating
Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software
Jan Anderson Award
Awards for Teaching Excellence, Universities Australia
Victorian Honour Roll of Women, Change Agent
Bancroft-Mackerras Medal for Excellence, Australian Society of Parasitology
ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Awards
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
The Hirota Naora Award
ARC DECRA Fellowship
Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
Elizabeth Blackburn Biomedical Fellowship, NHMRC
ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education (Teaching Excellence)

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
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)
ISI Highly Cited Scientist

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 (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
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
International Award, Biochemical Society, UK
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

Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research (Team Prize)
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
The Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) - Peter Goldacre Award
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

Burnet Prize
David Syme Research Prize
Bancroft-Mackerras Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology
Elected Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
Elizabeth Blackburn Biomedical Fellowship, NHMRC
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
HHMI - Wellcome International Research Scholar
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
The National Research Council of Sri Lanka - President's Award for Scientific Publication

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

Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research (Team Prize)
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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