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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] .
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]
In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [12]
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