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Growing and evolving our Investigator community - Annual Report 2025
31 May, 2026
We welcomed 13 new Investigators this year - 12 Associate Investigators (AIs) and one Principal Investigator (PI). Several longstanding AIs took on PI roles and will now lead our most recent scientific projects together with PhD students. At the same time, several former PIs moved to Emeritus status, in which capacity they remain an active part of our research community and network.
New Associate Investigators
- Thomas Bennett
- Joe Chen
- Owen Curnow
- Rosalyn Falconer
- Alex Hamilton
- Paul Hume
- Freddy Lyzwa
- Sarah Masters
- Ciaran Moore
- Kai Sellschopp
- Ziyun Wang
- Shanghai Wei
New Principal Investigators
- Jack Chen
- Shen Chong
- Matthew Cowan
- Erin Leitao
- Luke Liu
- Kim McKelvey
- Ocean Mercier
- Daniel Sando
- Viji Sarojini
- Jami Shepherd
New Emeritus Investigators
This is an incredible team of people that I am deeply honoured to lead. But more importantly, they are the scientific leaders Aotearoa needs.
Professor Nicola Gaston MacDiarmid Institute Director
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