Merryn Tawhai

She was inducted into the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in June 2018.

[6] Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Andrew Pullan and Peter Hunter, was titled An anatomically based mathematical model of the human lungs, applied to gas mixing and water vapour and heat transport.

[5] Following her PhD studies, Tawhai was a research fellow at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering beginning in 2002.

[8] In 2013, Tawhai was appointed deputy director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI).

In 2016, Tawhai was awarded the MacDiarmid Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand,[11] and the following year she was named one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.