The new president of the NZ Association of von Humboldt Fellows is Professor Jörg Frauendiener from the the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago. Jörg is a professor of applied mathematics with particular research interests in general relativity. For a more detailed profile, see here.

The new vice-president is Professor Nancy November from the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Auckland. Nancy’s discipline is musicology, her research centers on chamber music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For a more detailed profile, see here.

The recipient of the NZ Association of von Humboldt Fellows Research Award was announced on 19th November 2022 at the joint biennial Australia – New Zealand meeting of von Humboldt Fellows. It is Professor Rod Downey from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at VUW.  Rod’s interests are in mathematical logic and aspects of complexity; he is one of the founders of the field of parameterized complexity.  Details of his many distinctions can be found here.

The award consists of a cash payment and a certificate. We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of this award by our founding president Distinguished Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger.

We are delighted to report that in October 2022 Distinguished Professor Gaven Martin from the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study at Massey University received a Humboldt Research Award. His host is Prof. Dr. Walter Bergweiler at Kiel.   

Gaven’s research interests include Geometric Analysis, Low dimensional topology and geometry, and nonlinear PDEs. Details of Gaven’s many distinctions can be found here.