Celebrating excellence in science: Career honorific awards

Find out how climate change is reshaping our oceans, uncover the secrets of our universe, discover the origins of breast cancer and so much more! Join us online to hear from the Australian Academy of Science's career honorific awardees. 

The Academy’s honorific awards recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of science, and the career honorific awards recognise life-long achievement.

In these two online events, the Academy celebrates the recipients of the 2022 and 2023 career honorific awards. Each event will feature five awardees, each presenting their work in a short presentation followed by a Q&A. 

See below for the awardees participating in the events. The livestream will be available on this page. A detailed program will be made available soon.

Event 2

Date: Thursday 31 August 2023
Time: 1.30pm–4.00pm AEST

Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik FAA, QUT 
David Craig Medal 2022

Professor Matthew England FAA, UNSW Sydney
Jaeger Medal 2023

Professor Richard Hartley FAA, Australian National University
Hannan Medal 2023

Professor Nick Wormald FAA, Monash University
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 2023

Professor Andrew Roberts, Australian National University
Mawson Medal 2022

Event 1 - Thursday 24 August 2023

Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench FAA, QIMR Berghofer
Suzanne Cory Medal 2022 

Professor Terry Hughes FAA, James Cook University
Suzanne Cory Medal 2023

Professor Cath Lovelock FAA, University of Queensland
Suzanne Cory Medal 2023

Professor David Craik AO FAA FRS, University of Queensland
David Craig Medal 2023

Professor Susan Scott FAA, Australian National University
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal 2023