[ASA] 2025 ASA Awards

[Stas Shabala]

Dear ASA members,

The ASA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 ASA Awards.

Bok Prize for outstanding research in astronomy by an Honours or eligible Masters student
Awarded to Li Yusen for his Honours thesis: “Orbital dynamics in barred Milky Way: the dynamical and chemical origin of the Hercules stream”. Li Yusen completed his Honours thesis at the Australian National University, supervised by Ken Freeman and Helmut Jerjen.

Charlene Heisler Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy
Awarded to Dr Matthew Miles (Swinburne, now at Vanderbilt University, USA) for his thesis “Millisecond pulsar timing and gravitational wave searches with the MeerKAT radio telescope” supervised by Ryan Shannon.

Louise Webster Prize for outstanding research by a scientist early in their post-doctoral career
Awarded to Dr Rebecca Davies (Swinburne) for the paper: JWST reveals widespread AGN-driven neutral gas outflows in massive z~2 galaxies 2024, MNRAS, 528, 4976.

Anne Green Prize for outstanding research by a mid-career researcher
Awarded to A/Prof Claudia Lagos (UWA) for her work of modelling the formation of galaxies across cosmic epochs.

Emerging Leaders in Astronomy Software Development Prize (sponsored by the Australian Research Data Commons)
Awarded to Dr Joshua Preston Pritchard (CSIRO) for Dstools: a processing pipeline package for radio interferometric data from ATCA, ASKAP, MeerKAT and VLA

Ellery Lectureship
Awarded to Prof Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ANU) for her expertise in atomic hydrogen gas distribution and evolution in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and its neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds.

Congratulations to all our prize winners!

Finally, many thanks to all our judges, and our Prizes Coordinator Tanya Hill, for devoting a considerable amount of their time to reading and reviewing the nominations.

Kind regards,

Stas

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Professor Stas Shabala
(he/him/his)
President, Astronomical Society of Australia
Discipline of Physics | School of Natural Sciences | College of Science and Engineering
University of Tasmania
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