Merryn Tawhai
Merryn Tawhai is a New Zealand professor, director of MedTech CoRE and Deputy Director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, where she was a fellow from 2002. She is known for the development of mathematical models of the lungs that will help scientists understand differences between physiologically normal lungs and the pathological changes that might occur in a disease. She was inducted into the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in June 2018. In November 2018, Tawhai was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Early life. When Merryn Tawhai was in high school her  favorite subjects were mathematics and biology. In 2001 she graduated with a Ph.D. in engineering physics from the University of Auckland, and had two children at the same time. In 2017, Tawhai was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.