Faculty Graduate Research Supervision Award

The Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision is designed to acknowledge and reward Graduate Research supervisors who have demonstrated exceptional supervision, mentoring and training practices to benefit and enrich the experiences of their students. Winners were nominated for the corresponding Vice-Chancellor Award.

2025 Cornelia Landersdorfer

Cornelia Landersdorfer enables her PhD students, almost all women, to conduct highly successful PhD research as demonstrated by their excellent publications in leading journals (33 papers including PhD students since 2020) and numerous major awards, including: Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for PhD Thesis Excellence, ASCEPT Garth McQueen Prize, ASCEPT Neville Percy Prize, PAGANZ Nick Holford prize (x3), Cyril Tonkin PhD scholarship, IATDMCT Best Young Scientist poster, AFR Top100 Future Leader.

All of her PhD students always had successful milestone reviews. Importantly, after graduation Connie's PhD students transition to highly successful careers as R&Dscientists at world-leading pharmaceutical companies, including: Director ClinicalPharmacology, Principal Scientist PKPD Modelling, Senior PK Research Scientist.

Having received the 2023 Monash University Graduate Supervisor of the Year awards, among 64 nominated supervisors, further demonstrates her substantial contributions.

2024 Daniel Poole

Daniel Poole has successfully supervised 8 PhD and 2 masters completions in the last 5 years. He currently supervises 7 PhD students. Dan’s PhD graduates are now employed as tenured faculty, bioimage analysts, clinical research associates, and postdoctoral researchers.

Dan has a demonstrated passion for enhancing his HDR supervision and mentoring, reflected by the success of his students, the learning, engagement and employment opportunities that they have pursued, and by the supportive environment that his team has established. His students have received national and international awards in recognition of their achievements.

He has worked closely with students to ensure development of transferable skills, tailoring of projects to align with their evolving needs, interests and values, and to provide active support for training and development opportunities.