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Career change for Prof Richard Barker marks end of an era for Te Whai Ao board

Professor Richard Barker, formerly the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Sciences at the University of Otago, has stepped down from the Te Whai Ao — Dodd-Walls Centre board.

Honouring the Legacy of Professor John Harvey

Professor John Harvey has been made a life member of the Australian and New Zealand Optical Society.

Collaborating with Korea on Quantum Communications

The Catalyst Strategic NZ–Korea Joint Research Partnerships programme is supporting three joint quantum communications projects 2025-2028.

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Australasia missing a trick on core technologies - ANZOS Report

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.

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.