Garth Carnaby

Carnaby completed a PhD at the Department of Textile Industries at University of Leeds in 1976. The title of his doctoral thesis was The structure and mechanical properties of wool carpet yarns.^[1] He then returned to New Zealand, where he rose to become managing director of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand.^[2]

In 1989 Carnaby received a DSc by thesis (Publications and papers on wool and the wool industry) from the University of New South Wales,^[3] followed by an honorary DSc from Lincoln University in 2010.^[4]

Carnaby served as president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2009 to 2012, preceded by Neville Jordan and followed by David Skegg.^[5]

Carnaby has also served as chair of the board of the Canterbury Development Corporation^[6] and chair for Marsden Fund Council (2005–2009).^[7] He has served as 'Entrepreneur in Residence'^[8] and chair of the Research and Commercialisation Committee at Lincoln University.^[9]

In 1992, Carnaby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.^[10]

In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Carnaby was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the wool industry.^[11] He was promoted to Companion of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to science and governance.^[12]

• Carnaby, Garth A., and Ning Pan. "Theory of the compression hysteresis of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 275–284.
• Postle, Ron, Garth Alan Carnaby, and Stuart De Jong. "The mechanics of wool structures." (1988).
• Lee, Dae Hoon, and Garth A. Carnaby. "Compressional Energy of the Random Fiber Assembly: Part I: Theory." Textile research journal 62.4 (1992): 185–191.
• Pan, N., and Garth A. Carnaby. "Theory of the shear deformation of fibrous assemblies." Textile Research Journal 59.5 (1989): 285–292.