Four MacDiarmid related researchers selected for KiwiNet’s Emerging Innovator Programme

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Four MacDiarmid Institute related researchers have been selected for KiwiNet’s Emerging Innovator Programme

16 April, 2024

Four MacDiarmid Institute related researchers have been selected for KiwiNet’s Emerging Innovator Programme in KiwiNet’s last two cohorts - September 2023 and February 2024.

They are:

  • Associate Investigator Dr Nate Davis
  • Sophie McArdle (a PhD student with Principal Investigator Professor Aaron Marshall)
  • Dr Gavin Hedley (who studied with Associate Investigator Dr Matthew Cowan and is now a Research Assistant (partially MI-funded) with Dr Cowan
  • Finn McIntyre (a PhD student with Principal Investigator Professor Volker Nock (Finn’s main supervisor is Mathieu Sellier)). 

KiwiNet’s Emerging Innovator Programme provides targeted support to scientists from the public research community who want to develop their commercialisation/entrepreneurship expertise and become the future innovators of New Zealand.

While previously my career has focused heavily on scientific research, the Emerging Innovator programme allows me to dip my toes into the commercialisation world.

Dr Nate Davis MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator

You can read more about Nate’s thoughts on the Emerging Innovator Programme here. 

AI Nate Davis

MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator Nate Davis.