Donna Rose Addis

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Donna Rose Addis
Alma mater University of Toronto
Scientific career
Thesis

Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of Samoan descent, she earned the title of full Professor at the University of Auckland [1] before moving to Toronto in 2018 as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging at the University of Toronto [2] and a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Baycrest Hospital. [3] She retains an appointment at Aukland on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Brain Research in the School of Psychology. [4]

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Academic career

Addis went to Aorere College in Auckland, and her bursary marks made her New Zealand's top all-round scholar of Pacific Island descent. [5]

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. [6]

Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, [7] depression [8] brain scans, [9] and related areas. [10]

In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. [11] She was awarded one of the inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellowships in 2010. [12]

In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [13]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Donna Rose Addis – The University of Auckland". Psych.auckland.ac.nz. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Canada 150 Research Chairs program invests in international researchers". Thevaristy.ca. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Baycrest Centre - Scientists, Scientific Associates, and Clinician Associates". baycrest.org. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "Professor Donna Rose Addis joins Centre for Brain Research Scientific Advisory Board". aukland.ac.nz. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "Donna Rose Addis: I didn't look like who I was on the inside | E-Tangata – A Māori and Pasifika Sunday magazine". E-Tangata.co.nz. 21 May 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Professor Donna Rose Addis Inaugural Lecture – The University of Auckland". Fmhs.auckland.ac.nz. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Schacter, Daniel L.; Addis, Donna Rose; Buckner, Randy L. (2007). "Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain" . Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 8 (9): 657–661. doi:10.1038/nrn2213. PMID   17700624. S2CID   10376207 . Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  8. ↑ "Depression impairs forward-thinking". Radionz.co.nz. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  9. ↑ "Donna Rose Addis: Employing brain scans for lie detection just fuzzy logic". The New Zealand Herald . 15 December 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Professor Donna Rose Addis: The Future of Memory is Looking Bright – The University of Auckland". Brnz.ac.nz. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2010 | The Prime Minister's Science Prizes". Pmscienceprizes.org.nz. 5 April 2015. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  12. ↑ "Samoan female scholar awarded prestigious $800,000 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship". Tataga Pasifika. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  13. ↑ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – 2016 Professor Donna Rose Addis FRSNZ". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 12 January 2018.


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