Search results

Welcome to our Investigators in new roles

We welcome ten new Principal Investigators and ten new Associate Investigators

Modified: 10 Apr 2025, 11:49 am

Created: 2 Apr 2025, 10:15 am
/news-and-events/news/news-articles/welcome-to-our-investigators-in-new-roles/

Professor Tom Bennett

Tom was born in South Shields, in the North-East of England, in 1986.  He read the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Chemistry and gaining a 1st class MSci (Hons) in 2008. He then moved across to the Materials Science and Metallurgy Department, to study the physical properties of porous hybrid frameworks under Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS.

Modified: 14 Mar 2025, 11:06 am

Created: 14 Mar 2025, 10:55 am
our-people/associate-investigators/show/professor-tom-bennett/

Dr Rosalyn Falconer

Rosalyn Falconer completed her MChem degree at the University of Oxford and PhD in Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Bristol. She then undertook postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh and the CNRS in France. In 2022, Rosalyn was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Rosalyn joined the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland as a lecturer in 2024.

Modified: 18 Mar 2025, 3:25 pm

Created: 14 Mar 2025, 9:00 am
our-people/associate-investigators/show/dr-rosalyn-falconer/

Professor Sarah Masters

Sarah joined the University of Canterbury in 2011 and is currently Professor of Physical Chemistry. She moved to New Zealand from her previous position as Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Sarah leads the Structural Chemistry and Molecular Design Research Group in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury and has significant experience and achievements in structure determination and computational method development.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:57 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:53 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/professor-sarah-masters/

Dr Ziyun Wang

Ziyun Wang is a computational chemist specializing in theoretical catalysis and machine learning. He conducted his doctoral research in theoretical catalysis at the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Manchester under the guidance of Professor Peijun Hu and Professor Chris Hardacre. This was followed by postdoctoral research with Professor Jens Nørskov and Professor Thomas Bligaard at Stanford University and with Professor Edward Sargent at the University of Toronto. In 2021, Ziyun joined the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:50 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:45 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/dr-ziyun-wang/

Dr Alex Hamilton

Alex completed his PhD in 2010 on computational and structural organometallic chemistry at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor A. Guy Orpen and Professor Jeremy N. Harvey. He then moved to ICIQ in Spain for a postdoctoral research fellowship in computational catalysis with Professor Carles Bo. In 2013 he undertook a one-year teaching fellowship in physical chemistry at Massey University, Palmerston North. From there he moved back to the UK to take up a Lectureship in Physical Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2025 he moved to Victoria University of Wellington as a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:58 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:38 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/dr-alex-hamilton/

Associate Professor Owen Curnow

Owen began his research career with an MSc at the University of Waikato on Sn-Co clusters with Professor Brian Nicholson. He then went to the University of Michigan where he studied Mo-Co-S clusters as models for hydrodesulfurization (HDS) with Professor David Curtis. Owen then did postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Professor Russell Hughes) working with perfluorinated ligands, and the University of Heidelberg (Professor Gottfried Huttner) where he developed tethered cyclopentadienyl-phosphine ligands. He joined the University of Canterbury in 1993.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:33 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:27 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/associate-professor-owen-curnow/

Dr Shanghai Wei

Shanghai Wei completed his PhD on magnesium alloys in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, focusing on nano-structured materials, nanocomposite coatings, and Transmission Electron Microscopy analysis. From 2016 until the end of 2022, he was employed as a Key Research Technologist at the New Zealand Product Accelerator—a national research programme—working closely with both researchers and industry partners to develop technology platforms for maximum economic benefit to New Zealand.

Modified: 14 Mar 2025, 8:09 am

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:20 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/dr-shanghai-wei/

Dr Kai Sellschopp

Kai Sellschopp is a Computational Materials Scientist with an interdisciplinary background, holding degrees in both materials engineering and physics from the TU Dresden (Germany). His PhD at the Hamburg University of Technology focused on modelling interactions between small organic molecules and transition metal oxide surfaces. Following his interest in machine learning, he also spent four months at the EPFL in Lausanne as a visiting scholar. As a Postdoctoral Walter-Benjamin Fellow at the Institute of Hydrogen Technology at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Kai studied metal hydrides for hydrogen storage applications using atomic-scale modelling methods. He recently got appointed as a Lecturer of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he now builds a group for the Computational Design of Sustainable Chemical Processes.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:26 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:06 pm
our-people/associate-investigators/show/dr-kai-sellschopp/

Glass’s newest chemical cousin, and the promise it shows for CO2 capture, energy technologies medical advances, and more

For most of us, glass is simply something we look through or drink from.

Modified: 17 Mar 2025, 12:00 pm

Created: 4 Mar 2025, 3:04 pm
/news-and-events/news/news-articles/a-new-type-of-glass/

MacDiarmid Institute researchers successful in latest MBIE round

The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from its researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour Fund round.

Modified: 23 Sept 2024, 9:30 am

Created: 20 Sept 2024, 12:58 pm
/news-and-events/news/news-articles/macdiarmid-institute-researchers-successful-in-latest-mbie-round/

From farm to forefront of innovative science

Her day job of working to decarbonise the zinc and steel industries is a fair stretch from lambing time on a west Otago spread for Lily Clague.

Modified: 23 Jan 2025, 1:08 pm

Created: 9 Jul 2024, 3:30 pm
/news-and-events/news/in-the-media/from-farm-to-forefront-of-innovative-science/

1 2 3 4 5 ... 9