Renate Meyer

Renate Meyer is a New Zealand statistician, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in gravitational wave analysis.

Academic career

Meyer is a German-born New Zealander. She completed a PhD titled Invariante Präordnungen und algorithmische Aspekte bei Matrix-Approximationsproblemen in multivariaten statistischen Verfahren (Invariant preorders and algorithmic aspects of matrix approximation problems in multivariate statistical methods) at the RWTH Aachen University in 1993. Having visited New Zealand for two international meetings, the 1992 International Biometrics Conference at the University of Waikato and the International Workshop on Matrix Methods in Statistics at the University of Auckland, Meyer intended to stay for two years when she joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 1994.

Meyer is a pioneer in gravitational wave analysis, having got interested in the field through collaborator Nelson Christensen, who had been a doctoral student of Rainer Weiss. Meyer's students have worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Albert Einstein Institute in Hanover, Germany, the University of Edinburgh, and the Institute of Space Technology in Pakistan.

Selected works