Nominations are open now for the Royal Society of Tasmania’s Annual Doctoral Awards. The Awards are open to anyone whose work has led to the advancement of knowledge and who have completed a PhD in the last three years.
Researchers in the fields of arts, sciences, medicine, humanities and more are encouraged to apply.
Read the guidelines and learn how to submit a nomination at rst.org.au.
Nominations are due 15 November 2019.
2018 Award Winners
Dr Jack Mulder, Research Fellow, Monash University
From Rocky Cape to the Rocky Mountains: The geological journey of Tasmania’s oldest rocks
Dr Mulder will outline how an ancient basin from the Southwest of the United States was fragmented, resulting in the landmass we now know as Tasmania drifting away from North America and subsequently colliding with Australia to achieve its present-day position.
Dr Mulder is a geologist who studies ancient rocks to understand how Earth’s continents are built and how they have evolved through deep time. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at Monash University where his research focuses on using the sedimentary record to track secular changes in the composition of the continental crust and plate tectonic processes.
Doctoral Thesis Winner: Dr Feng Pan, Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Individualised osteoarthritis pain treatment based on phenotypes: Are we there yet?
Dr Feng Pan will explain how various new clinical concepts allow for patients’ stratification for clinical trials, thus providing potential for individualised interventions in patients with osteoarthritis pain.
Dr Pan is a Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. His research interests span both epidemiology and clinical interventions to osteoarthritis-related pain. Much of his work has been on identifying biomechanical risk factors for chronic pain and osteoarthritis, identifying pain and osteoarthritis phenotypes and testing new therapeutic treatments.