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Dr Krista Steenbergen

Dr Krista Steenbergen

Associate Investigator

Towards Low Energy Tech - Hardware for Future Computing

Phone:
+64 4 4 463 6926

Address:
Room 505, Laby Building
Kelburn Campus
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600
Wellington 6140

Biography

Dr Krista Steenbergen is a Physics Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).  She completed her PhD at VUW under the supervision of Associate Professor Nicola Gaston

 

Research interests

Krista's research focuses on materials modelling:  using and developing computational methods to characterise material properties.  She is particularly interested in how material properties change - often in intriguing and counter-intuitive ways - at the nanoscale.  Her long term research is focused on discovery and characterisation of materials with application to renewable energy, battery and sensing technologies.

My research interests bridge physics and physical chemistry within the realm of materials modelling.

Dr Krista Steenbergen

In the news

News Article

2023 Marsden grant success

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.

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Annual Report

Funding successes - Annual Report 2021

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.

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Annual Report

Awards - Annual Report 2021

May 9, 2022

This provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators in 2021.

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News Article

2021 MacDiarmid Institute Marsden grant successes

November 3, 2021

MacDiarmid Institute led research received $6.2 million funding in 2021 Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund.

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Annual Report

Adapting to the online environment

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.

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News Article

Liquid metals that create nanostructure - it’s the little details that count

March 8, 2021

PhD candidate and MacDiarmid Institute researcher Stephanie Lambie from successfully kick-started a new collaboration with FLEET.

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Annual Report

New Associate Investigators 2019 - Annual Report 2019

May 28, 2020

An overview of the research interests of each of our nine new Associate Investigators.

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Annual Report

Awards - Annual Report 2019

May 26, 2020

This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators over the past year.

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Annual Report

Researcher profiles - Annual Report 2019

May 25, 2020

Four of our researchers talk about their work and why they joined the MacDiarmid Institute.

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Annual Report

Virtual materials - Annual Report 2018

April 8, 2019

Our researchers use computers to reproduce conditions unachievable in a lab, such as the magnetic forces inside a white dwarf star.

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Annual Report

Independent Postdoctoral Fellows - Annual Report 2018

April 8, 2019

An overview of the research interests of each of our six new Independent Postdoctoral Fellows.

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Events

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Wanaka (23 October)

September 24, 2020

Associate Professor Duncan McGillivray and Dr Krista Steenbergen give their scientific take on whether fictional materials could be reality in a not too far off future.

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Podcasts

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Dilithium Crystals

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Dilithium Crystals

April 3, 2020

Dr Krista Steenbergen discusses the science behind Dilithium Crystals from Star Trek with RNZ Nights' Bryan Crump.

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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Philote

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Philote

May 28, 2021

Dr Krista Steenbergen from Victoria University of Wellington gives us her scientific take on Philote from Enders Game.

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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Vibranium

Materials: Fact or Fiction - Vibranium

September 8, 2020

Dr Krista Steenbergen discusses the science behind Vibranium from the Marvel Comics on RNZ Nights with Bryan Crump.

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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Philote

Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Philote

July 4, 2023

Dr Krista Steenbergen, Associate Investigator and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington gives her scientific take on Philote, from the Ender's Game series.

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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Star Trek: Dilithium Crystals

Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Star Trek: Dilithium Crystals

December 10, 2021

Dr Krista Steenbergen, Associate Investigator and lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington gives her scientific take on Dilithium Crystals from Star Trek

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