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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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Symposium 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.

Prof Cather Simpson leads research into protecting Aotearoa's bees from pests

Award-winning Te Whai Ao researcher Prof Cather Simpson has their research highlighted

EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light awarded to Prof. John Dudley

Prof. John Dudley and Prof. Goëry Genty are celebrated with the EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of Light

ONZM awarded to Te Whai Ao member Prof. Frank Bloomfield

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.

Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Members Celebrated at ANZCOP

ANZOS awards Cather Simpson with prestigious W.H. (Beattie) Steel medal.

Royal Society Te Apārangi MacDiarmid Medal awarded to Geoff Waterhouse

Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre investigator Geoff Waterhouse has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi MacDiarmid Medal, in the Wellington Awards Ceremony.