Donna Rose Addis
Donna Rose Addis is a New Zealand psychology academic. Of Samoan descent, she is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland, but is set to move to the University of Toronto. 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. 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. She then returned to Auckland and rose to full professor in 2016. Addis's research is on memory, future thinking, depression brain scans, and related areas. In 2009 Addis won a Prime Minister's Science Prize. In 2017 Addis was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.