2016 honour roll of University researchers
Our researchers drive positive change for the benefit of Australia and the global community. Below are just a few of the awards our researchers have won this year, showing a wide breadth of achievements that is a testament to our culture of excellence in research.
2016 research award recipients
Australian Academy of Science fellow
Professor Alex McBratney
Nancy Keesing Fellowship
Lee Stickells
AIA National Architecture Awards 2016
National Commendation for the Cape York Partnership Offices in the Commercial Architecture category
Professor Kevin O’Brien
National Commendation for the Kempsey Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club in the Public Architecture category
Adjunct Professor Rachel Neeson
Academic Leadership in Political Science Award from the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA)
Professor Pippa Norris
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2016
Non-fiction Prize
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, Department of History
Prize for Australian History
Emeritus Professor Suzanne Rutland OAM, from the School of Languages and Culture
Fiction Prize
Charlotte Wood, Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre
2016 Australian of the Year Awards – Australia's Local Hero
Dr Cath Keenan
Engineers Australia Top 50 innovators 2016
IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award
Dong Xu, School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Technical Achievement award
Abbas Jamalipour
The Vinnakota Award
Hannah Blum
American Society of Civil Engineers: Shortridge Hardesty Award
Kim Rasmussan
CRC Association: Excellence in Innovation award
Shahadat Uddin
Annual International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure: Best Student Paper
Pengyu Huang
The Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA) Sydney 2016
Daniel John De Cataldo
IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
Albert Zomaya
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: The Norbert Wiener award
Hong Yan
Paul and Dee-Dee Slade Young Investigator Award
Chongpu Zhai
Australian Financial Review Higher Education Award
Steven Scheding
Women in Science Citation Award
Dr Julie Schneider
The Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to physiotherapy and to medical education in the 2016 Australia Day Honours
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Kathryn Refshauge
The Premier’s Award for outstanding cancer research and
The Australia & New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group:
Alan Coates Award for Excellence in Clinical Trials Research
Professor Robert (John) Simes
Google Impact Challenge award
Professor Clara Chow from The George Institute for Global Health
Australian Academy of Science awards
Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health
Professor Ben Marais
Royal Australasian College of Physicians’ Eric Susman Prize
Professor Steve Vucic
2017 Breakthrough Prize
New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
Geordie Williamson, School of Mathematics and Statistics
2017 Australian Academy for Science awardees
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn Director, Sydney Institute for Astronomy
Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health
Professor Barend Marais Deputy Director, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity Institute
Fenner Medal
Professor Simon Ho Professor of Molecular Evolution, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES)
Le Févre Memorial Prize Dr Deanna D'Alessandro ARC Queen Elizabeth (II) Fellow, School of Chemistry
2016 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
2016 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
Professor Rick Shine Shine Lab, SOLES
Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Professor Richard Payne ARC Future Fellow, School of Chemistry
2016 NSW Premier’s Prizes for Science & Engineering
New South Wales Scientist of the Year
Professor Rick Shine Shine Lab
Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn Director, Sydney Institute for Astronomy
Excellence in Medical Biological Sciences (Cell and molecular, medical, veterinary and genetics)
Professor David James, Systems Biology Chair, Charles Perkins Centre
NSW Early Career Researcher of the Year Joint Winner
Dr Elizabeth New Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry
2016 Tall Poppy Campaign NSW Tall Poppy
Dr Thomas Newsome Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SOLES
2016 Eureka Prizes
Outstanding Early Career Researcher Dr Michael Bowen NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellow, School of Psychology
2016 Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation
Professor Christopher Dickman Professor in Ecology (Personal Chair), SOLES
L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowships
2016 Fellow Dr Camilla Whittington Early Career Researcher, Faculty of Veterinary Science
2016 Fellow Dr Angela Crean Early Career Researcher, Faculty of Veterinary Science
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