Scott Hocknull
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
External links
- Three new dinosaurs discovered in Australia
- Scott Hocknull profile at Queensland Museum
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Preceded by James Fitzpatrick | Young Australian of the Year 2002 | Succeeded by Lleyton Hewitt |
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- 2024 Emma McKeon