2025 awards and funding opportunities

The Australian Academy of Science offers two types of opportunities for scientists. Our honorific awards recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of science across the career spectrum. Our funding opportunities support scientists to undertake research projects as well as travel and lectures at a national and international level.

This page lists the 2025 funding opportunities that are now open. Our 2025 honorific award nominations closed 1 May.

The information below is also available as a downloadable PDF (1.1 MB).

NOW OPEN: 2025 Academy funding opportunities

Nominations and applications for research awards, travelling fellowships and research conference funding close 1 June 2024

Research awards

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award 
• Margaret Middleton Fund for Endangered Australian Native Vertebrate Animals
• Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award
• Moran Award for History of Science Research
• Thomas Davies Research Fund for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology
• WH Gladstones Population and Environment Fund

Travelling fellowships

• David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award for Australian scientists to present workshops and lectures in Australia
• Selby Fellowship for overseas scientists to visit Australian scientific centres

Conference funding

• Boden Research Conference in the Biological Sciences
• Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference in the Physical Sciences
• Fenner Conference on the Environment

NOW CLOSED: 2025 Academy honorific awards

Nominations for the Academy's prestigious honorific awards for scientific excellence closed 1 May 2024.

Premier awards

Premier and career awards recognise achievement over the whole career

• Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture (physical sciences)
• Ruby Payne-Scott Medal (any branch of the physical and biological sciences)

Career awards

• David Craig Medal and Lecture (chemistry)
• Hannan Medal (statistical science)
• Jaeger Medal (Australian Earth sciences)
• Suzanne Cory Medal (biological sciences excluding biomedical sciences)
• Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal (mathematics or physics)

Mid-career awards

Mid-career awards are for researchers 8 to 15 years post-PhD in the calendar year of nomination.

• Jacques Miller Medal (experimental biomedicine)
• Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science (any branch of the physical and biological sciences)

Early-career awards

Early-career awards are for researchers no more than 10 years post-PhD in the calendar year of nomination.

• Anton Hales Medal (Earth sciences)
• Christopher Heyde Medal (pure mathematics, applied, computational and financial mathematics)
• Dorothy Hill Medal (Earth sciences)
• Fenner Medal (biological sciences, excluding biomedical sciences)
• Gottschalk Medal (medical sciences)
• John Booker Medal (engineering sciences)
• Le Fèvre Medal (chemistry)
• Moran Medal (statistical science)
• Pawsey Medal (physics)
• Ruth Stephens Gani Medal (human genetics, including clinical, molecular, population and epidemiological genetics and cytogenetics)

More about our awards and funding opportunities

See all our awards and funding opportunities

See our 2024 honorific awardees