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Erin Leitao is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland. Her career in science started in Canada with a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Victoria, followed by a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Calgary. Erin then went on to do postdoctoral research in Bristol before coming to New Zealand and joining the University of Auckland in 2015.
Erin’s research is interested in discovering new catalytic ways to link earth abundant main group elements together with the eventual aim of making long chains (polymers) either with the same atom or two different atoms alternating along the polymer backbone. These new materials will have really interesting properties (eg semi-conducting).
My research programme involves linking earth abundant elements together in an effort to make new materials.
Dr Erin Leitao
Annual Report
April 13, 2024
Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2023.
News Article
November 3, 2023
Congratulations to our long list of Marsden winners this year - it's wonderful to see the talent being recognised with Fast-Start grants, and those at the next career stage with their first Standard grants, and especially great to see the strong thread of materials for sustainability running through this list.
Annual Report
April 19, 2023
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2022. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
News Article
November 3, 2022
MacDiarmid Institute led research received $7.84 million funding in 2022 Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund.
Read more about 2022 MacDiarmid Institute Marsden grant successes
Annual Report
June 2, 2022
This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2021.
Annual Report
May 9, 2022
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2021. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
Annual Report
March 31, 2021
As classes and meetings moved online in March as Aotearoa New Zealand entered Level 4 lockdown, we adapted our community outreach activities to the virtual environment.
Annual Report
March 30, 2021
Summer studentship descriptions for our DiscoveryCamp and Discovery Scholarship Alumni.
Read more about Summer studentships for our DiscoveryCamp and Discovery Scholarship Alumni
Annual Report
March 24, 2021
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2020. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
September 24, 2020
Professor Bill Williams and Dr Erin Leitao give their scientific take on whether fictional materials could be reality in a not too far off future.
November 13, 2020
Dr Erin Leitao, Associate Investigator gives us her scientific take on The Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter.
Read more about Materials: Fact of Fiction - The Philosopher's Stone
October 1, 2019
Dr Erin Leitao talks to RNZ about her research converting silicon into different materials.