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.

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

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