Hill Tinsley Medal

The Hill Tinsley Medal is an annual award, conferred by the New Zealand Association of Scientists for "outstanding fundamental or applied research in the physical, natural or social sciences published by a scientist or scientists within 15 years of their PhD". The medal was first awarded in 1997. It is named for astronomer and cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley. Prior to 2016, the medal was called the Research Medal.[1]

Recipients

Year Recipient Workplace Field of work
1997 Grant Williams Industrial Research Limited Origin of superconductivity in high temperature superconducting cuprates
1998 Anthony Burrell Massey University New ways to produce cheap energy through chemistry
1999 David Wardle Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Ecology of above-ground and below-ground communities
2000 Michael Murphy University of Otago How damage to mitochondria contributes to human diseases
2001 Robert Poulin University of Otago Evolutionary ecology of parasites
2002 Jack Heinemann University of Canterbury Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria and the biology of genetic elements outside chromosomes
2003 Robert McLachlan Massey University Geometric integration
2004 Richie Poulton University of Otago How adult health is related to socio-economic status in childhood
2005 Fiona McDonald University of Otago Proteins that regulate the activity of the sodium channel in kidneys
2006 Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago How emotional responses influence social cognition
2007 Kathryn McGrath Victoria University of Wellington How molecular self-assembly processes influence macroscopic physicochemical properties of fluid and solid materials
2008 Ulrich Zuelicke Massey University Theory of new electronic devices at the nanometre scale
2009 Thomas Buckley Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Entomological systematics, biogeography, speciation, and molecular evolution
2010 Shaun Hendy Victoria University of Wellington / Industrial Research Limited Theoretical nanotechnology
2011 Alexei Drummond University of Auckland Probabilistic models of molecular evolution and population genetics
2012 Eric Le Ru Victoria University of Wellington Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and nanoplasmonics
2013 Noam Greenberg Victoria University of Wellington Theory of computability
2014 Merryn Gott University of Auckland How to reduce suffering at the end of life
Richard Tilley Victoria University of Wellington Synthesis and electron microscopy characterisation of nanoparticles
2015 Stéphane Coen University of Auckland Nonlinear optical phenomena in optical fibres
2016 Guy Jameson University of Otago Chemistry of metalloproteins
2017 Christian Hartinger University of Auckland Development of metal-based anticancer drugs
2018 Siân Halcrow University of Otago Human remains in an archaeological context
2019 Nick Golledge Victoria University of Wellington Modelling ice sheet and individual glacier behaviour
2020 Frédérique Vanholsbeeck University of Auckland Leading a biophotonics lab and researching bacteria using quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy
2021 Priscilla Wehi University of Auckland Conservation, biodiversity, and ecological restoration research informed by cross-disciplinary western science and indigenous knowledge
2022 Daniel Stouffer University of Canterbury Community ecology, particularly the role of species interactions in driving emergent ecological and evolutionary phenomena.[2]
2023 Tahu Kukutai University of Waikato Sociology, demography, Māori statistics

References

  1. ^ "New Zealand Association of Scientists – Hill Tinsley Medal". scientists.org.nz. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. ^ The New Zealand Association of Scientists Awards for 2022, https://doi.org/10.26686/nzsr.vi.8065