earned her a number of professional awards and recognitions. In 2004 she was an Associate Investigator on the Marsden-funded project 'Understanding Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes'. The next year she was the Principal Investigator on another Marsden-funded project, 'Genome-scale plant phylogeny and the challenge of lineage-specific sequence evolution'. Also in 2005, she received the Bridge to Employment Grant from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FoRST) and the Hamilton Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand, and was invited to attend the SMBE Tri-national Young Investigators Workshop. In 2006 Holland was a Co-Investigator on yet another Marsden-funded project, 'Candida albicans: Survival without sex?', and received the Early Career Research Medal from Massey University. Holland has served as an editor for the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, serving as Associate Editor in 2007 and appointed Senior Editor in 2012. In 2008, was an Associate Investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre and received the Early Career Research Award from the New Zealand Mathematical Society. In 2009 she was the Principal Investigator on the Marsden project 'Untangling complex evolution: When the tree of life is not a tree at all'. In 2010 Holland received another Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. In 2011 Holland was the Co-investigator on two different projects. One was titled 'Ancient Ibis Mummies from Egypt: DNA Evolution' and funded by a Human Frontier Science Program grant. The other was funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage grant and titled 'How will animals respond to climate change? A genomic approach'. Recently, Holland was elected to and served on the council of the Society of Systematic Biologists from 2013 to 2016. References External links http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/Holland/ 1976 births Living people Australian women scientists Massey University alumni New Zealand emigrants to Australia 20th-century Australian mathematicians 21st-century Australian mathematicians Australian women mathematicians University of Tasmania faculty 20th-century women mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians 20th-century Australian women Recipients of Marsden grants