Gaven Martin

[2] He then went to the University of Michigan on a Fulbright scholarship,[2] completing his doctorate in 1985 under the supervision of Frederick Gehring[7] and earning the Sumner Byron Myers Prize for the best mathematics dissertation in his year[2] and an A.P.

[8] He currently is the Director of the NZ Mathematics Research Institute https://www.nzmri.org and a long serving board member of the Rotary Science Trust.

Recent awards include Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships (https://www.ssrc.org/programs/japan-society-for-the-promotion-of-science-jsps-fellowship/ two times) and the Humbolt Research Prize (2022).

In 2024, Martin was awarded the Jones Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand for "his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including geometry, analysis, topology, and group theory".

[15] In 2021 Martin Chaired the Royal Society of New Zealand's Expert Advice Panel for the Ministry of Education on the NZ Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum.