Moran Medal

The Moran Medal in Statistical Sciences is awarded every two years by the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research by Australian scientists under 40 years of age in the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics, and statistics.

This medal commemorates the work of the late Pat Moran, for his achievements in probability.

Year	Winner	Affiliation	Location	Award field	Notes
2025	Margarita Moreno-Betancur	Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Melbourne		Biostatistics	^[2]
2023	David Frazier	Monash University		Statistics	^[3]
2023	Rachel Wang	University of Sydney		Statistics	^[3]
2021	Christopher Drovandi	Queensland University of Technology		Data collection and computation	^[4]
2021	Janice Scealy	Australian National University		Statistics	^[5]
2019	Kim-Anh Lê Cao and Stephen Leslie	University of Melbourne		Statistics	^[6]
2017	Joshua Ross	University of Adelaide		Applied Probability and Statistics	^[7]
2015	Jean Yang	University of Sydney		Statistical methodology	^[8]
2013	Aurore Delaigle	University of Melbourne		Statistics	^[9]
2011	Scott Sisson (statistician) and Mark Tanaka	University of New South Wales	Sydney	Statistics	^[10]
2009	Melanie Bahlo	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute	Melbourne	Statistics	^[11]
2007	Rob J. Hyndman	Monash University	Melbourne	Several areas of statistics	^[12]
2005	Mark W. Blows	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Mathematical genetics
2003	Nigel G. Bean	University of Adelaide	Adelaide	Applied probability	^[13]
2001	Aihua Xia	University of Melbourne	Melbourne	Applied probability
1997	Matthew P. Wand	University of Wollongong	Wollongong, NSW	Statistics	^[14]
1993	Philip K. Pollett	University of Queensland	Brisbane	Applied probability	^[15]
1990	Alan H. Welsh	Australian National University	Canberra

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Membership	Fellowship Fellows Presidents
Awards	Bok Prize Dorothy Hill Medal Gottschalk Medal Hannan Medal Le Fèvre Medal Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Lecture Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture Moran Medal Pawsey Medal Ruth Stephens Gani Medal Suzanne Cory Medal Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
Lectures	Lloyd Rees Lecture

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