Gaven Martin

Martin is originally from Rotorua, New Zealand.[3] His family moved to Henderson when he was 11 years old, and he attended Henderson High School[2] and the University of Auckland (as the first of his extended family to go to university), earning a BSc with first-class honours in 1980 and an MSc with distinction in 1981.[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. Sloan Foundation Fellowship spent in T.U.B. Berlin and The University of Helsinki.

After short-term positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of the University of California, Berkeley and as a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University, Martin became a lecturer at the University of Auckland in 1989,[4] but left after a year to research at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Sweden and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France.[3] Soon after his return, he was given a personal chair at Auckland;[3][4] when he took it, he became (at age 32) the youngest full professor in New Zealand.[2][3] For the next several years, he split his time between Auckland and Australian National University,[3][4] but by 1996, he gave up the Australian appointment and remained solely at Auckland.[4] He moved to Massey as a distinguished professor in 2005,[4] and in 2016 was elected as the academic staff representative on the Massey University Council, the University's topmost governing body.[8]

Martin became a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997.[4] In 2001, he won the James Cook Fellowship of the RSNZ;[3][4] he also won the Hector Memorial Medal of the RSNZ in 2008.[9] He was an invited speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians.[2] In 2012, he became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[10] He was made a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2016.[11]

• Frederick W. Gehring, Gaven J Martin, and Bruce P. Palka (2017). An Introduction to the Theory of Higher-Dimensional Quasiconformal Mappings. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4360-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Tadeusz Iwaniec, and Gaven J Martin (2001). Geometric function theory and non-linear analysis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198509294.
• Kari Astala, Tadeusz Iwaniec, and Gaven J Martin (2009). Elliptic partial differential equations and quasiconformal mappings in the plane. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691137773.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)