{"id":576,"date":"2026-07-02T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=576"},"modified":"2026-10-08T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:14:27","slug":"matthias-neufang","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/matthias-neufang\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Neufang"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthias Neufang is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and currently serves as Associate Dean (Graduate Affairs) and alongside Professor Sue Bertram, Acting Associate Dean\u00a0of\u00a0Research\u00a0in the Faculty of Science at Carleton University. Having joined Carleton in 2002, he has held\u00a0numerous\u00a0academic leadership positions and in\u00a0July 2026, he began a five-year term as Deputy Provost.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His contributions to the academic community extend beyond Carleton through service on editorial boards, scholarly\u00a0organizations\u00a0and national research bodies.\u00a0Neufang\u00a0has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society, chaired several national committees, including the NSERC Pure Mathematics Evaluation Group and was Deputy Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences. In recognition of his contributions, he was\u00a0elected\u00a0a Fields Institute Fellow in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neufang&nbsp;has also played&nbsp;an important role&nbsp;in advancing international academic partnerships, including establishing Carleton\u2019s Dual Master\u2019s Degree Policy, which created opportunities for innovative graduate collaborations with universities abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a member of the&nbsp;Towards Carleton@100 strategic visioning process,&nbsp;Neufang&nbsp;brings a combination of research, administrative and partnership experience that supports the advancement of Carleton\u2019s research and graduate education priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1017,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Matthias","cu_people_last_name":"Neufang","cu_people_initials":"MN","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[42],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-576","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-research-and-scholarly-impact"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":" Deputy Provost; Professor (School of Mathematics and Statistics); Associate Dean (Graduate Affairs); Acting Associate Dean, Research (Faculty of Science)","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/576\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}