Donna Rose Addis Explained

Donna Rose Addis
Alma Mater:University of Toronto
Thesis1 Title:Terms of engagement : investigating the engagement of the hippocampus and related structures during autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy individuals and temporal lobe epilepsy patients.
Thesis1 Url:https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?5873677
Thesis1 Year:2005

Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of Samoan descent, she is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland,[1] but is set to move to the University of Toronto.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

Addis's research is on memory, future thinking,[5] depression[6] brain scans,[7] and related areas.[8]

In 2009, Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize.[9]

In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[10]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Donna Rose Addis – The University of Auckland . Psych.auckland.ac.nz . 2 January 2017 . 12 January 2018.
  2. Web site: Canada 150 Research Chairs program invests in international researchers . 10 January 2018 . Thevaristy.ca . 3 March 2019.
  3. Web site: 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 . 12 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Professor Donna Rose Addis Inaugural Lecture – The University of Auckland . Fmhs.auckland.ac.nz . 18 August 2016 . 12 January 2018.
  5. Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain . 2007 . 10.1038/nrn2213 . 30 July 2020. Schacter . Daniel L. . Addis . Donna Rose . Buckner . Randy L. . Nature Reviews Neuroscience . 8 . 9 . 657–661 . 17700624 . 10376207 .
  6. Web site: Depression impairs forward-thinking . Radionz.co.nz . 11 August 2016 . 12 January 2018.
  7. News: Donna Rose Addis: Employing brain scans for lie detection just fuzzy logic . . 15 December 2017 . 12 January 2018.
  8. Web site: Professor Donna Rose Addis: The Future of Memory is Looking Bright – The University of Auckland . Brnz.ac.nz . 2 January 2017 . 12 January 2018.
  9. Web site: The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2010 | The Prime Minister's Science Prizes . Pmscienceprizes.org.nz . 5 April 2015 . 12 January 2018.
  10. Web site: Royal Society Te Apārangi – 2016 Professor Donna Rose Addis FRSNZ . Royalsociety.org.nz . 12 January 2018.