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Alma mater | University of Toronto |
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Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of Samoan descent, she is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland, [1] but is set to move to the University of Toronto. [2]
Addis went to Aorere College in Auckland, and her bursary marks made her New Zealand's top all-round scholar of Pacific Island descent. [3]
After an undergraduate at the University of Auckland Addis won a commonwealth scholarship to the University of Toronto for a PhD titled 'Terms of engagement: investigating the engagement of the hippocampus and related structures during autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy individuals and temporal lobe epilepsy patients' and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. [1] She then returned to Auckland and rose to full professor in 2016. [4]
Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, [5] depression [6] brain scans, [7] and related areas. [8]
In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. [9]
In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [10]
Donna Rose Addis | |
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Alma mater | University of Toronto |
Scientific career | |
Thesis |
Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of Samoan descent, she is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland, [1] but is set to move to the University of Toronto. [2]
Addis went to Aorere College in Auckland, and her bursary marks made her New Zealand's top all-round scholar of Pacific Island descent. [3]
After an undergraduate at the University of Auckland Addis won a commonwealth scholarship to the University of Toronto for a PhD titled 'Terms of engagement: investigating the engagement of the hippocampus and related structures during autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy individuals and temporal lobe epilepsy patients' and a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. [1] She then returned to Auckland and rose to full professor in 2016. [4]
Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, [5] depression [6] brain scans, [7] and related areas. [8]
In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. [9]
In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [10]