{"id":80,"date":"2013-06-13T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T01:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/discretemaths\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:16:10","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/discretemaths\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the discrete mathematics group have received the following awards, fellowships and grants:<\/p>\n<p>Jack Allsop, Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Commendation for Thesis Excellence, Monash University, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/medal.html\">Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia medal<\/a> 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Lee, Monash Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher award, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hickingbotham, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, ARC Discovery Project with Catherine Greenhill, Mikhail Isaev, Anita Liebenau, Brendan McKay, 2025-2027. <\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley, ARC Discovery Project with Darryn Bryant, Barbara Maenhaut, Peter Dukes, 2024-2026.<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, ARC Discovery Project with Vida Dujmovi\u0107, 2024-2026.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org.au\/news-and-events\/news-and-media-releases\/decoding-dragons-and-devils-what-triggers-volcanoes-and-more-australias-stars-of-science\">Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal<\/a>, Australian Academy of Science, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hickingbotham, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/students.html\">Anne Penfold Street Prize<\/a> for best student talk at the 44th Australasian Combinatorics Conference, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/medal.html\">Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia medal<\/a> 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald, ARC Discovery Project with Anita Liebenau, 2022-2024<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley, ARC Discovery Project, 2022-2024<\/p>\n<p>Ron Steinfeld, ARC Discovery Project with Joseph Liu, Jiangshan Yu and Shifeng Sun, 2022-2024<\/p>\n<p>Jack Allsop, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/students.html\">Anne Penfold Street Prize<\/a> for best student talk at the 43rd Australasian Combinatorics Conference, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>James Saunderson, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2021-2024<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Hendrey, Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Commendation for Thesis Excellence, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Heiko Dietrich, <a href=\"https:\/\/aips.net.au\/tall-poppies\/2019-victorian-award-winner\/dr-heiko-dietrich\/\">Victorian Young Tall Poppy Award<\/a>, 2019<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, ARC Discovery Project with Gwena\u00ebl Joret, 2019-2021<\/p>\n<p>Heiko Dietrich, ARC Discovery Project with Willem de Graaf, 2019-2021<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Isaev, ARC Discovery Project with Catherine Greenhill and Brendan McKay, 2019-2021<\/p>\n<p>Harald B\u00f6geholz, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/students.html\">Anne Penfold Street Prize<\/a> for the best student talk at the 5th International Combinatorics Conference, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ica.org\/medals.php\">Hall Medal<\/a>, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, B.H. Neumann award from the Australian Mathematics Trust, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald and Anita Liebenau, ARC Discovery Project, 2017-2019<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley, ARC Future Fellowship, 2017-2020<\/p>\n<p>Jane Gao, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2017-2019<\/p>\n<p>Anita Liebenau, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2017-2019<\/p>\n<p>Michael Payne, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2016-2018<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald and Jane Gao, ARC Discovery Project, 2016-2018<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley and Ian Wanless, ARC Discovery Project with Darryn Bryant, 2015-2019<\/p>\n<p>Greg Markowsky and Tim Garoni, ARC Discovery Project, 2014-2016<\/p>\n<p>Heiko Dietrich, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2014-2016<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, ARC Future Fellowship, 2014-2017<\/p>\n<p>Darcy Best, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/students.html\">CMSA Prize for best student talk<\/a> at the 38th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brand, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brand, Faculty of Information Technology Doctoral Medal, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wormald, ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, 2013-2017<\/p>\n<p>Graham Farr, ARC Discovery Project, 2013-2015<\/p>\n<p>Norman Do, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2013-2015<\/p>\n<p>Norman Do, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aips.net.au\/tall-poppies\/tall-poppy-campaign\/2013-tall-poppy-science-award-winners\/2013-vic-award-winners\/dr-norman-do\/\">Victorian Tall Poppy Award<\/a>, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Horsley, ARC DECRA Fellowship, 2012-2015<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, ARC Future Fellowship, 2012-2015<\/p>\n<p>Tim Garoni, ARC Linkage Project with Jan De Gier and Andreas Schadschneider, 2012-2014.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Garoni, ARC Future Fellowship, 2011-2014<\/p>\n<p>Ron Steinfeld, ARC Australian Research Fellowship, 2011-2013<\/p>\n<p>Graham Farr, Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, ARC Discovery Project with Catherine Greenhill and Ron Aharoni, 2012-2014<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, ARC Discovery Project with Sanming Zhou, 2012-2014<\/p>\n<p>Arun Konagurthu, Monash Larkins Fellowship, 2011-2013<\/p>\n<p>Kerri Morgan, ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011-2014.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Farr, Kerri Morgan, ARC Discovery Project with Daniel Delbourgo, Peter Cameron, Bill Jackson, 2011-2014<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brand, Gordon Preston Prize for best student talk at Victorian Algebra Conference, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Mani, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, Australian Mathematical Society Medal, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Robinson, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-ica.org\/medals.php\">Hall Medal<\/a>, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, ARC QEII Fellowship, 2008-2013<\/p>\n<p>Ian Wanless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aips.net.au\/tall-poppies\/vic-tall-poppies\/past-vic-tall-poppy-winners\/2008-victorian-award-winners\/dr-ian-wanless\/\">Victorian Tall Poppy Award<\/a>, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Kerri Morgan, <a href=\"http:\/\/combinatorics-australasia.org\/students.html\">CMSA student prize<\/a>, 4th International Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (4ICC), 2008.<\/p>\n<p>David Wood, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the discrete mathematics group have received the following awards, fellowships and grants: Jack Allsop, Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Commendation for Thesis Excellence, Monash University, 2026. Nick Wormald Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia medal 2025. Melissa Lee, Monash Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher award, 2025. Robert Hickingbotham, Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University, 2024. 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