Professor Geoff Waterhouse

Principal Investigator

Towards Zero Carbon - Catalytic Architectures

Phone:

+64 9 373 7599, ext. 87212

Address:
School of Chemical Sciences
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92 019
Auckland 1142

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• g.waterhouse@auckland.ac.nz

Biography

Geoff is a Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland and has been a Principal Investigator for the MacDiarmid Institute since 2016. He was elected as the Science Leader for the Materials for Energy Capture and Utilisation theme in April 2019.

Research interests

Geoff's research interests are diverse and multidisciplinary, spread across the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Biology and Nanotechnology.

Current research is focussed around the development of efficient supported noble metal nanoparticle catalysts for hydrogen production from renewable sources, and the fabrication and characterisation of smart optical coatings (in particular bioinspired photonic crystal thin films) for optoelectronic and catalytic applications.

The synthesis of perovskite-type oxynitrides, and the application of these materials as ecologically friendly pigments and visible-light driven photocatalysts, is also an area of current research activity.

A central theme of his research is exploration of the fundamental relationships between the chemical, physico-chemical, structural, electronic and optical properties of solids and their function.