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Volker Nock is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the Biomolecular Interactions Centre at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
He holds a Dipl-Ing degree in Microsystem Technology from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and a PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury. From 2009 to 2012 he was a MacDiarmid Institute and Marsden Research Fellow. He is currently a Principal Investigator with the the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and theme leader for UC Biosecurity Innovations.
Volker's research interests include micro- and nanofabrication, surface patterning and the application of microfluidics to Lab-on-a-Chip devices. He applies engineering technologies to study how biomolecules interact in plants and animals.
Knowledge gained as part of this helps to increase our understanding of how biological systems function when healthy or diseased, enabling us to develop new treatments for plant and animal diseases.
If the lab-on-a-chip works, it will be so exciting and could have a huge impact.
Professor Volker Nock
News Article
September 20, 2024
The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from its researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour Fund round.
Read more about MacDiarmid Institute researchers successful in latest MBIE round
Annual Report
April 15, 2024
This year, research papers authored by MacDiarmid Investigators have been featured on the front cover of seven international scientific journals.
Annual Report
April 14, 2024
Patent activity undertaken by our researchers in partnership with their respective Technology Transfer Offices.
Annual Report
April 13, 2024
Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2023.
Annual Report
April 13, 2024
The biology and mechanisms used by Phytophthora species to infect host plants and how they adapt to environmental stress.
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
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
Physics biology collaborations are forging mechanobiology – a research area key to understanding health and disease.
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.
Annual Report
May 27, 2020
This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.
Read more about Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Annual Report
May 26, 2020
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2019. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
News Article
October 25, 2019
Seven MacDiarmid Institute Investigators have been awarded $20.29 million funding for their research through MBIE Endeavour fund.
Read more about MacDiarmid researchers successful in 2019 MBIE round
News Article
October 10, 2019
Principal Investigator Dr Volker Nock was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to research fungi that spread disease to native trees.
Read more about Protecting our native trees with lab-on-a-chip research
Annual Report
April 8, 2019
In 2018 the government announced a $13million funding boost for research to combat the spread of kauri dieback and myrtle rust. Could microfluidics be the solutions we are looking for?
Read more about Feeling the force of fungi to stop it killing our forests - Annual Report 2018
Annual Report
April 8, 2019
The discovery of conducting polymers – plastics that conduct electricity – won New Zealander Alan MacDiarmid the Nobel Prize in 2000.
Read more about Connecting with researchers at UCLA - Annual Report 2018
Annual Report
April 8, 2019
An overview of the research interests of each of our eight new Principal Investigators.
Read more about New Principal Investigators - Annual Report 2018
Annual Report
April 8, 2019
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
In The Media
November 20, 2018
Could microfluidics be the solution we are looking for to combat the spread of kauri dieback and myrtle rust?
Read more about Feeling the force of fungi to stop it killing our forests
News Article
September 14, 2018
The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from MacDiarmid researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour fund round.
Read more about MacDiarmid researchers successful in latest MBIE round
News Article
August 27, 2018
The MacDiarmid Institute proudly welcomes eight new principal investigators.
Annual Report
May 18, 2018
Unlike most of us, when physicist Dr Geoff Willmott thinks about milk, he thinks about droplets, surfaces and heat - and he’s eager to use surface interactions to solve problems in the dairy industry.
October 23, 2019
Dr Volker Nock went on RNZ's Afternoons to discuss his research finding answers to kauri dieback and myrtle rust.
Read more about Research could find answers to kauri dieback and myrtle rust