Eileen Lueders, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University  of Auckland, has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation. Her research focuses on unscrambling links  between brain anatomy and biological sex, gender identity,  sex hormones, intelligence, and meditation. More details appear here.

We are delighted to report that in October 2020 Professor Andre Nies from the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland received a Humboldt Research Award. His host is Professor Dr. Katrin Tent from the University of Münster. His research interests include quantum information theory, computability, descriptive set theory, group theory and its connections to logic. Details of his many distinctions can be found here.