Scott Hocknull

Scott Hocknull (born 1977) is an Australian palaeontologist specialising in fossil vertebrates and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award.[1]

He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera,[2] including (in cooperation with the original finder Robyn Mackenzie) a giant Sauropod Australotitan cooperensis.[3]

Awards

National and Queensland Career Achiever, 2002
Queensland Science and Technology Achiever, 2002
National Career Achiever, 2002
Centenary Medalist, 2003
Neville Stephens Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 2005
Riversleigh Medal, 2009
Rising Stars of Queensland Science, 2015
10 Best of the Best of Queensland's 50 Top Thinkers, 2015

References

^ "Young Australian of the Year 2002". National Australia Day Council. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
^ Profile at UNSW.edu
^ Hocknull SA, Wilkinson M, Lawrence RA, Konstantinov V, Mackenzie S, Mackenzie R. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317, persistent access doi

External links

Scott Hocknull profile at Queensland Museum

Awards

Preceded by

James Fitzpatrick

Young Australian of the Year
2002

Succeeded by

Lleyton Hewitt

[1] "Young Australian of the Year 2002". National Australia Day Council. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

[2] Profile at UNSW.edu

[PeerJ-3] Hocknull SA, Wilkinson M, Lawrence RA, Konstantinov V, Mackenzie S, Mackenzie R. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317, persistent access doi