Ailie Gallant awarded 2024 Dorothy Hill Medal
21st Century Weather Chief Investigator Ailie Gallant has been awarded the 2024 Dorothy Hill Medal by the Australian Academy of Science.
By providing support to women researchers in the Earth sciences, the Academy’s Dorothy Hill Medal honours the contributions of the late Professor Dorothy Hill and her work in opening up tertiary science education to women.
Ailie is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment within the Faculty of Science at Monash University.
Her work focuses on drought, precipitation variability, and precipitation extremes.
Ailie’s recent research is focused on understanding what causes droughts to start and end, with a particular focus on the role of changes in weather systems during droughts.
“I’m really proud to receive the Academy Honourific,” Ailie said.
“It’s always nice to be acknowledged, but to know the calibre of past winners and to realise that I’m now amongst that list is very humbling.”
To read more about this year’s awardees, go to: https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities-2/honorific-awardees/2024-awardees
About the award
The Dorothy Hill Medal honours the contributions of the late Professor Dorothy Hill AC CBE FAA FRS to Australian Earth science and her work in opening up tertiary science education to women.
Professor Hill became Australia’s first woman Professor in 1959 when she became Professor of Geology at the University of Queensland.
Professor Hill also became the first Australian woman Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1956), the Royal Society of London (1965), and she became the first woman president of the Australian Academy of Science (1970).
Ailie’s fellow 21st Century Weather Chief Investigators Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Nerilie Abram, Lisa Alexander, and Andrea Taschetto are all previous recipients of the Dorothy Hill Medal.
To read more, go to: https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/dorothy-hill-medal