# Hill Tinsley Medal

The Hill Tinsley Medal is an annual award, conferred by the New Zealand Association of Scientists for "outstanding fundamental or applied research in the physical, natural or social sciences published by a scientist or scientists within 15 years of their PhD". The medal was first awarded in 1997. It is named for astronomer and cosmologist Beatrice Hill Tinsley. Prior to 2016, the medal was called the Research Medal.

## Recipients

| Year | Recipient | Workplace | Field of work |
| 1997 | Grant Williams | Industrial Research Limited | Origin of superconductivity in high temperature superconducting cuprates |
| 1998 | Anthony Burrell | Massey University | New ways to produce cheap energy through chemistry |
| 1999 | David Wardle | Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research | Ecology of above-ground and below-ground communities |
| 2000 | Michael Murphy | University of Otago | How damage to mitochondria contributes to human diseases |
| 2001 | Robert Poulin | University of Otago | Evolutionary ecology of parasites |
| 2002 | Jack Heinemann | University of Canterbury | Horizontal gene transfer in bacteria and the biology of genetic elements outside chromosomes |
| 2003 | Robert McLachlan | Massey University | Geometric integration |
| 2004 | Richie Poulton | University of Otago | How adult health is related to socio-economic status in childhood |
| 2005 | Fiona McDonald | University of Otago | Proteins that regulate the activity of the sodium channel in kidneys |
| 2006 | Jamin Halberstadt | University of Otago | How emotional responses influence social cognition |
| 2007 | Kathryn McGrath | Victoria University of Wellington | How molecular self-assembly processes influence macroscopic physicochemical properties of fluid and solid materials |
| 2008 | Ulrich Zuelicke | Massey University | Theory of new electronic devices at the nanometre scale |
| 2009 | Thomas Buckley | Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research | Entomological systematics, biogeography, speciation, and molecular evolution |
| 2010 | Shaun Hendy | Victoria University of Wellington / Industrial Research Limited | Theoretical nanotechnology |
| 2011 | Alexei Drummond | University of Auckland | Probabilistic models of molecular evolution and population genetics |
| 2012 | Eric Le Ru | Victoria University of Wellington | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and nanoplasmonics |
| 2013 | Noam Greenberg | Victoria University of Wellington | Theory of computability |
| 2014 | Merryn Gott | University of Auckland | How to reduce suffering at the end of life |
| 2014 | Richard Tilley | Victoria University of Wellington | Synthesis and electron microscopy characterisation of nanoparticles |
| 2015 | Stéphane Coen | University of Auckland | Nonlinear optical phenomena in optical fibres |
| 2016 | Guy Jameson | University of Otago | Chemistry of metalloproteins |
| 2017 | Christian Hartinger | University of Auckland | Development of metal-based anticancer drugs |
| 2018 | Siân Halcrow | University of Otago | Human remains in an archaeological context |
| 2019 | Nick Golledge | Victoria University of Wellington | Modelling ice sheet and individual glacier behaviour |
| 2020 | Frédérique Vanholsbeeck | University of Auckland | Leading a biophotonics lab and researching bacteria using quantitative fluorescence spectroscopy |
| 2021 | Priscilla Wehi | University of Auckland | Conservation, biodiversity, and ecological restoration research informed by cross-disciplinary western science and indigenous knowledge |
| 2022 | Daniel Stouffer | University of Canterbury | Community ecology, particularly the role of species interactions in driving emergent ecological and evolutionary phenomena. |
| 2023 | Tahu Kukutai | University of Waikato | Sociology, demography, Māori statistics |