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Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic with UCLA collaborator Yihang Chen

Materials science and nanotechnology are key to solving the big problems of our time, such as climate change, and the MacDiarmid Institute is New Zealand’s premier research institute focused in this area.

Working with our teams of leading scientists opens up a wide range of opportunities for those who join us as students or investigators.

These include involvement in vital world-class research, start-up companies, industry collaborations, local and central government projects, and developing innovations to improve people’s lives.

Opportunities offered to our students include:

Three to six month industry internships in government agencies, NGOs or industry
Annual multi-day workshops on specialist topics such as communication, commercialisation and leadership
Intensive annual multi-day bootcamps (held in remote and beautiful locations) where experts share their knowledge in an important current research area
Public engagement events, working with school teachers or children
Membership of the MacDiarmid Emerging Scientists Association (MESA), run by students and postdocs, which organises additional activities.

Our alumni are working throughout New Zealand, as well as all over the world, making a real difference in their chosen areas of research.