Donna Rose Addis

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Donna Rose Addis
Alma mater University of Toronto, University of Auckland
Scientific career
Thesis

Donna Rose Addis is the world's first neuroscientist of Samoan descent and New Zealand psychology academic. [1] She earned the title of full Professor at the University of Auckland [2] before moving to Toronto in 2018 as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging at the University of Toronto [3] and a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Baycrest Hospital. [4] She retains an appointment at Auckland on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Brain Research in the School of Psychology. [5]

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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. [6]

After completing a Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree in Psychology 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. [2] She then returned to Auckland, becoming a lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland. [1] She rose to full professor in 2016. [7]

Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, [8] depression [9] brain scans, [10] and related areas. [11]

In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. [12] She was awarded one of the inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellowships in 2010. [13]

In 2017, Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [14]

In 2017, Addis was selected for the Canada 150 program. Her title was Canada 150 Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) (based in Toronto). [1]

Early life

Addis is a member of the Leger family of Samoa, and the daughter of Brent and Rose Addis. She grew up in South Auckland and attended Aorere College, where she was a part of the choir and Samoan Polyfest group. [1]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Riley, David (2020). Dr Donna Rose Addis, Samoan Neuroscientist. Auckland, New Zealand: Reading Warrior. ISBN   978-0-9951402-4-0.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Donna Rose Addis – The University of Auckland". Psych.auckland.ac.nz. 2 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Canada 150 Research Chairs program invests in international researchers". Thevaristy.ca. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Baycrest Centre - Scientists, Scientific Associates, and Clinician Associates". baycrest.org. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "Professor Donna Rose Addis joins Centre for Brain Research Scientific Advisory Board". auckland.ac.nz. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Professor Donna Rose Addis Inaugural Lecture – The University of Auckland". Fmhs.auckland.ac.nz. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Depression impairs forward-thinking". Radionz.co.nz. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  10. ↑ "Donna Rose Addis: Employing brain scans for lie detection just fuzzy logic". The New Zealand Herald . 15 December 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  11. ↑ "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.
  12. ↑ "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.
  13. ↑ "Samoan female scholar awarded prestigious $800,000 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship". Tataga Pasifika. 23 October 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
  14. ↑ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – 2016 Professor Donna Rose Addis FRSNZ". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 12 January 2018.


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