Scott Hocknull (born 1977) is a vertebrate palaeontologist and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane . He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award .[1]
He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera.[2]
Early life
Scott Hocknull was born in Adelaide, South Australia . His family moved to Brisbane when he was 12. He enrolled in a B.Sc. at the University of Queensland in 1996, majoring in zoology and geology. He took his degree with Honours in 2000.[3]
Career
Hocknull worked at the Queensland Museum during his university studies. After graduation he became a curator in geosciences at the Queensland Museum. He became senior curator in 2002.
He took his doctorate from the University of New South Wales , in 2009.[3] [4]
In cooperation with the original finder Robyn Mackenzie, Hocknull published the description of Australotitan cooperensis.[5]
Awards
Young Australian of the Year for Queensland, 2002
National and Queensland Career Achiever, 2002
Queensland Science and Technology Achiever, 2002
National Career Achiever, 2002
Centenary Medalist, 2003
Neville Stephens Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 2005
Riversleigh Medal, 2009
Queensland's best and brightest - The Courier Mail, 2009
Rising Stars of Queensland Science, 2015
10 Best of the Best of Queensland's 50 Top Thinkers, 2015
References
^ "Young Australian of the Year 2002" . National Australia Day Council . Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014 .
^ Profile at UNSW.edu
^ a b "Scott Hocknull - Faculty of Science - The University of Queensland, Australia" . www.science.uq.edu.au . Retrieved 9 June 2017 .
^ Museum, Queensland Government. "Dr Scott Hocknull" . www.qm.qld.gov.au . Retrieved 9 June 2017 .
^ Hocknull SA, Wilkinson M, Lawrence RA, Konstantinov V, Mackenzie S, Mackenzie R. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317 , persistent access doi
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