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New Board Chair brings extensive expertise in science-led commercialisation

Dr Trevor Stuthridge

Co-founder and CEO of start-up Cetogenix, Dr Trevor Stuthridge, has been appointed as Board Chair for the MacDiarmid……

August 20, 2026

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Two affiliated start-ups are finalists in the 2026 KiwiNet awards

KiwiNet today announced that two MacDiarmid Institute affiliated start-up companies have been selected as finalists in the 2026 KiwiNet awards.

August 6, 2026

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Growing within a 'world-class scientific community'

Our new PhD students from NZ and around the globe on why they chose to be part of our research.

June 3, 2026

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Nine Kiwi startups could offset emissions at the scale of NZ forests

Today’s launch of the New Zealand Cleantech Impact Report 2026 shows New Zealand has a pipeline of Cleantech companies with…

April 22, 2026

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From farms to fuel: turning cow burps into clean energy

MacDiarmid Institute science is staking out a future that enables our agricultural sector to continue feeding the world while tackling…

March 30, 2026

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Weaving solutions to tackle waterway pollution

From harakeke-woven filters to light-driven chemistry, MacDiarmid Institute researchers are reimagining how Aotearoa New Zealand can clean its waterways through…

March 19, 2026

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From Biology to Green Chemistry

In the hunt for chemical systems that can carry out multiple tasks efficiently, and reconfigure themselves for different purposes, our…

February 10, 2026

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Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals

The MacDiarmid Institute invites applications for new Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals.

December 16, 2025

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Marsden success 2025

This year 19 of our Investigators have been successful across 12 Marsden projects:

University of Auckland Marsden projects led by MacDiarmid……

November 6, 2025

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Professor Aaron Marshall receives Pickering Medal

Professor Aaron Marshall has today been awarded the Pickering Medal for pioneering research in electrochemistry and for successfully commercialising sustainable technologies.…

October 28, 2025

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Two of our researchers take home 2025 KiwiNet Research Commercialisation awards

Two of our researchers took home KiwiNet awards last night — Dr Ben Mallett won the Ara Ake Breakthrough Innovator…

October 23, 2025

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2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: Quantum Properties at the macroscopic scale of materials science

October 9, 2025