Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre is advertising this fellowship opportunity, and applications are open until Sunday 19 July 2026
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.
Renowned physicist and science communicator Professor John Dudley has been recognised for his exceptional accomplishments in the University’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Congratulations to Simon Granville, Ben Ruck, Waltraut Wustmann, Cushla McGoverin, Frédérique Vanholsbeeck and Ludmila Adam on their funding success.
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.
‘This is a wake-up call about the opportunity’: Dodd-Walls Centre director Fred Vanholsbeeck.
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, New Vice President of SPIE!
As catastrophic weather events continue to strike, a group of New Zealand based scientists is focusing on better detection.