Professor McDougall is a physical oceanographer. He won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Science in 2017 and received an AC in 2018. He researches oceans and climate change. “I trust that the increasing recognition of scientific achievements in Australia will help swing the political will in this country towards evidence-based government policy, and towards more meaningful action on reducing Australia’s carbon footprint,” he wrote then.

The other PM’s prizes go to

Innovation awards

Nick Cutmore,  James Tickner and Dirk Treasure from Chrysos Corporation with CSIRO, receive one of two PM’s prizes for innovation. It’s for commercialising a new process to assay minerals in ore bodies.

The other innovation prize goes to Alison Todd and Elisa Mokany (SpeeDX) for “commercialising their innovative molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases and cancer.”

Brett Hallam (UNSW) wins a new innovator prize it is for research that improves the performance of solar cells. As does Pip Karoly (Uni Melbourne and Seer Medical) for an app that forecasts epilepsy seizures.

The 2022 primary school science teacher is George Pantazis from WA.

The secondary school science teacher is Veena Nair from Melbourne.

Life scientist of the year is Si Ming Man (Immunology and Infectious Disease at ANU).

Physical scientist of the year is Adele Morrison (physical oceanography, ANU)