Moran Medal

For the Moran Medal awarded by the government of South Korea, see Order of Civil Merit (Korea).

The Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences is awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics, and statistics.

This medal commemorates the work of the late Pat Moran, for his achievements in probability.

Winners

Source: ^[1]

Year	Winner	Affiliation	Location	Award field	Notes
2025	Margarita Moreno-Betancur	Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Melbourne		Biostatistics	[2]
2023	David Frazier	Monash University		Statistics	[3]
	Rachel Wang	University of Sydney		Statistics
2021	Christopher Drovandi	Queensland University of Technology		Data collection and computation	[4]
	Janice Scealy	Australian National University		Statistics	[5]
2019	Kim-Anh Lê Cao and Stephen Leslie	University of Melbourne		Statistics	[6]
2017	Joshua Ross	University of Adelaide		Applied Probability and Statistics	[7]
2015	Jean Yang	University of Sydney		Statistical methodology	[8]
2013	Aurore Delaigle	University of Melbourne		Statistics	[9]
2011	Scott Sisson (statistician) and Mark Tanaka	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Statistics	[10]
2009	Melanie Bahlo	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute	Melbourne	Statistics	[11]
2007	Rob J. Hyndman	Monash University	Melbourne	Several areas of statistics	[12]
2005	Mark W. Blows	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Mathematical genetics
2003	Nigel G. Bean	University of Adelaide	Adelaide	Applied probability	[13]
2001	Aihua Xia	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Applied probability
1997	Matthew P. Wand	University of Wollongong	Wollongong, NSW	Statistics	[14]
1993	Philip K. Pollett	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Applied probability	[15]
1990	Alan H. Welsh	Australian National University	Canberra

See also

• List of mathematics awards

Notes

1. "Moran Medal | Australian Academy of Science".
2. "2025 awardees: 2025 Moran Medal". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
3. "Decoding dragons and devils, what triggers volcanoes, and more: Australia's stars of science". Australian Academy of Science. 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
4. "2021 awardees". www.science.org.au. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
5. "2021 awardees". www.science.org.au. Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
6. "2019 awardees | Australian Academy of Science".
7. "2017 awardees | Australian Academy of Science".
8. "2015 awardees | Australian Academy of Science".
9. "2013 awardees | Australian Academy of Science".
10. "2011 awardees | Australian Academy of Science".
11. https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2009-awardees#moran
    "'New era of gene technology is on its way', says medal winner", 2009-05-05, "AAS-Media releases-05.05.09". Archived from the original on 2009-09-13. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
12. https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2007-awardees#moran
    "Rob Hyndman awarded with prestigious Moran Medal", 2007-06-05, http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/news/2007/june/moran-medal.html Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
13. "Two researchers win prestigious medals", 2003-01-08, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news450.html
14. "Australian Academy of Science Newsletter", April-June 1997, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2012-10-17.
15. "Professor Philip Pollett", Undated, Moran Medal Archived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Moran Medal site of the Australian Academy of Science