Dr Bhuvana Kannan: turning real science into a real product

Dr Bhuvana Kannan turns real science into a real product. Bhuvana completed her chemistry PhD with MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigators Professors Jadranka Travas-Sejdic and David Williams in 2011. 

She now works as Research and Innovation Manager at Revolution Fibres Ltd, a world-leading nanofibre production company based in Auckland. Her job is to make the science work, turning real science into a real product. She finds her work challenging, fascinating and rewarding. 

Bhuvana is involved in innovation management and leading projects with diverse end applications such as cosmetics, skin scaffolding, textiles, batteries and filtration, working with international clients, supervising PhD students and writing patents, reviews and book chapters.

Questions:

1. What would you find most challenging/most fun about Dr Kannan's job?

2. Think of a problem we are currently facing. What product could you imagine making to fix it?

April 15, 2020