New Zealand is earning $1.5bn from photonic and quantum technologies, but not keeping pace with the rest of the world and risks losing its research advantage.
September 24, 2024
2024
Congratulations to Simon Granville, Ben Ruck, Waltraut Wustmann, Cushla McGoverin, Frédérique Vanholsbeeck and Ludmila Adam on their funding success.
News
September 16, 2024
‘This is a wake-up call about the opportunity’: Dodd-Walls Centre director Fred Vanholsbeeck.
September 10, 2024
Lasers are used across all aspects of daily life, with Investigators from the Centre exploring new ways to design and build these light-based tools.
August 23, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Cather Simpson, New Vice President of SPIE!
July 1, 2024
As catastrophic weather events continue to strike, a group of New Zealand based scientists is focusing on better detection.
Dr Mallika Suresh, an alumna of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light begins the Agnes Blackie Fellowship at Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls.
June 16, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Ian Walmsley for receiving a Kings Birthday Honours for his services to Science and to Quantum Technologies.
June 8, 2024
New Zealand’s leading scientists are celebrating today's United Nations’ proclamation that 2025 is the Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
June 6, 2024
Our Director, Frederique Vanholsbeeck, and Deputy Director – Education, Jessa Barder, contributed to this report by Ceridwyn Roberts on the importance of
Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre made a submission to the Universsity Advisory Group (UAG) as part of the Science System Reform process.
May 29, 2024
Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre made a submission to the Science System Advisory Group (SSAG) as part of the Science System Reform process
May 15, 2024
Celebrating light amid a solar storm
May 7, 2024
Dodd-Walls researchers support science in Samoa.
April 23, 2024
Te Whai Ao's very own Dr Jacob Ngaha took the time to interview with RNZ last week to talk about Aotearoa's place in the research into quantum science
April 14, 2024
It's World Quantum Day, with scientists globally celebrating advances in the field. Dodd-Walls acknowledges those who can navigate the arts AND physics.
April 8, 2024
March 14, 2024
An international team led by a Te Whai Ao - Dodd-Walls investigator has demonstrated a new photonic technology with applications from sensing to computing.
March 13, 2024
Neuro-imaging systems such as MRI scanners are expensive, imagine if you could build one for animal testing from off-the-shelf components for under $10000USD?
March 12, 2024
Representatives of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) have been visiting some of New Zealand's best photonic researchers within the Centre.
February 28, 2024
We happy to announce that our annual Symposium will be held at the University of Canterbury in 2024, and we warmly invite you to attend.
Events
February 27, 2024
Award-winning Te Whai Ao researcher Prof Cather Simpson has their research highlighted
January 12, 2024
Prof. John Dudley and Prof. Goëry Genty are celebrated with the EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light
January 8, 2024
Professor Frank Bloomfield, DVCR of the University of Auckland and member of Te Whai Ao, received an ONZM for services to neonatology in the New Year's Honours.
September 19, 2023
2023
Dr. Sara Miller was recognized by the University of Otago this year for their commitment to research excellence.
December 12, 2023
ANZOS awards Cather Simpson with prestigious W.H. (Beattie) Steel medal.
November 17, 2023
Many congratulations to Principal Investigator Niels Kjægaard who this week was awarded the Royal Society Hector Medal.
November 24, 2023
Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre investigator Geoff Waterhouse has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi MacDiarmid Medal, in the Wellington Awards Ceremony.
Various Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre investigators have been involved in a new research article looking into the situation for female physicists in Aotearoa.
November 3, 2023
This year's Marsden results have just been announced and there are six Dodd-Walls Centre Investigators as Principal or Associate Investigators on five contracts
