ANBUG awards

ANBUG recognises the achievements of our members annually in the following areas:

ANBUG Career Award – for sustained contribution throughout the recipient’s career to a scientific subfield, or subfields, using neutron scattering techniques – A$500.

ANBUG Neutron Award – for outstanding research in neutron science and leadership promoting the Australian neutron scattering community (>10 years post PhD) – A$250.

ANBUG Young Scientist Award – for outstanding research utilising neutron scattering by scientists within 10 years of PhD conferral when accounting for significant career breaks A$250.

ANBUG Technical Award – for outstanding service contributing to technical aspects of neutron scattering by university / institute staff or a beamline scientist. It is likely, but not mandatory, that it will be awarded to those who are traditionally not eligible for the other ANBUG awards, from areas such as engineering, sample environment, workshops or instrument staff that have gone above and beyond to facilitate your beam time from a technical perspective – A$250.

ANBUG Outstanding PhD Prize – for a PhD thesis on research using neutron scattering techniques submitted to a university in Australia or New Zealand after 1st January the year prior to the award year (i.e., 1st January 2022 for the 2023 award). Nominations for this award category must be accompanied by copies of the thesis and examiner reports – A$250.

Nominations for the ANBUG awards open October each year. Refer back here closer to the opening date for details on how to nominate.


The Awardees for previous years are listed below, congratulations to them all.

ANBUG Awardees 2023

Congratulations to the ANBUG awardees for 2023.

Career Award – Prof. Garry McIntyre, ANSTO

Neutron Award – A/Prof. Stuart Prescott, UNSW

Young Scientist – Dr. Lu (Daniel) Jiang, Deakin University

Technical Award – Dr. Frank Darmann ANSTO

Outstanding PhD Award – Dr. Zhijun (Helen) Qiu, UOW

Past awardees

2022

Career Award for sustained contribution – Jill Trewhella

Neutron Award (>10 years post-PhD) – Kirrily Rule

Young Scientist Award (<10 years post-PhD) – Teng Lu

Technical Award – Andrew Nelson

Outstanding PhD Prize – Isaac Gresham

2021

Career Award for sustained contribution – Trevor Finlayson

Neutron Award (>10 years post-PhD) – Elliot Gilbert

Young Scientist Award (<10 years post-PhD) – Leonie van’t Hag

Technical Award – Norman Booth

Outstanding PhD Prize – Gemeng Liang

2020

Career Award for sustained contribution – John White

Neutron Award (>10 years post-PhD) – Anna Paradowska

Young Scientist Award (<10 years post-PhD) – David Cortie

Outstanding PhD Prize – Damien Goonetillecke

2019

Career Award for sustained contribution – Stewart Campbell

Neutron Award (>10 years post-PhD) – Vanessa Peterson

Young Scientist Award (<10 years post-PhD) – Rico Tabor

Outstanding PhD Prize – Timothy Murdoch

2018

Outstanding PhD Prize – Grace Causer

2017

Career Award – Rob Robinson

Award for Outstanding Research – Chris Ling

2014

Award for Outstanding Research – Ross Piltz

2012

Award for Sustained Contribution – Ian Gentle

2010

Award for Outstanding Research – Maxim Avdeev

Sustained Contribution – Chris Howard

2008

Award for Outstanding Research – not awarded

Sustained Contribution – Margaret Elcombe

2007

Award for Outstanding Research – Prof. Erich Kisi (Newcastle University)

Sustained Contribution – Prof. Brian O’Connor