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Cather Simpson leaves the board.

Te Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre Board Chair Charlotte Walshe has announced that University of Auckland Professor Cather Simpson has resigned from the Centre’s Governance Board.

Exceptional alumni honoured with prestigious University award

Renowned physicist and science communicator Professor John Dudley has been recognised for his exceptional accomplishments in the University’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards.

A New Zealand breakthough in quantum-inspired optical computing

With fully fault‑tolerant quantum computers still years away, New Zealand researchers have built a hybrid device that could solve major problems much sooner.

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NZ’s Photonics, Quantum Industry Underperforms Global Peers

‘This is a wake-up call about the opportunity’: Dodd-Walls Centre director Fred Vanholsbeeck.

Designing the Lasers of Tomorrow - an update from the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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.

Congratulations to Professor Cather Simpson

Congratulations to Professor Cather Simpson, New Vice President of SPIE!

Prevention, not clean up, should be New Zealand's strategy for major weather events

As catastrophic weather events continue to strike, a group of New Zealand based scientists is focusing on better detection.

When Passion, Persistence and Brain Power Pay Off

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.

Kings Birthday Honours - Prof Ian Walmsley

Congratulations to Professor Ian Walmsley for receiving a Kings Birthday Honours for his services to Science and to Quantum Technologies.