Jenni Adams was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and was the winner of the 2021 Dan Walls Medal.
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Jenni Adams is a full professor, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi in 2023.
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Jenni Adams was educated at Kaiapoi High School, where she first aspired to be an astronaut, before realising that actual discoveries about the universe were not made by astronauts.
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Jenni Adams completed an astronomy degree at the University of Canterbury and then was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1992.
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Jenni Adams's doctorate, completed in 1995 on the topic of cosmological phase transitions, was titled Cosmological phase transitions: techniques and phenomenology.
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Jenni Adams was offered a lecturing position at the University of Canterbury, and started work there in 1998.
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Jenni Adams was promoted to a full professorship in 2020.
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Jenni Adams is the lead New Zealand scientist in the international IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
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Jenni Adams was President of the New Zealand Institute of Physics in 2008 when the Dan Walls Award was established.
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In 2023 Jenni Adams was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi.