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Dr Dave Warren

Dave holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry, using ATR-IR to study the surface chemistry of catalysts.  He is now a Senior Teaching Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo University of Otago, where for the last decade he has run the successful Department of Chemistry Outreach Programme.

Modified: 6/05/2024, 7:31 am

Created: 14/08/2023, 5:56 pm
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Professor Sally Brooker

Distinguished and Mellor Professor Sally Brooker did her PhD with Dr Vickie McKee at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Vickie is now a Visiting Research Professor in Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark and Adjunct Professor in Dublin City University, Ireland), and a postdoc with Professor George Sheldrick (of SHELX fame) at Göttingen University in Germany. She then returned to NZ to take up a lectureship at the University of Otago, the first position she applied for, where she is now a full professor and currently one of 7 inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professors (2020-2024). Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and in 2018 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science, MNZM. Other recent awards include: Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer (Sydney University, 2018), RSNZ Hector Medal for outstanding work in chemical, physical or mathematical and information sciences (2017), 28th Inorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Burrows Award (2017), and the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal (2017), and the inaugural triennial Curtis Lecture (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015). She loves supervising her large, multinational, highly productive and high impact research team (over 230 papers to date, h = 51 Web of Science, PhD 1989), Brookers Bunch.

Modified: 14/01/2026, 12:03 pm

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Justin Hodgkiss

Professor Justin Hodgkiss was the Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute until the end of 2024, and a Professor in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington. He became an Emeritus Investigator in January 2025 and is now in a full-time role as CEO and Chief Scientist at his start-up, Advemto. (You can see a one min video about Advemto here.)

Modified: 23/09/2025, 9:59 am

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Tom Bennett

Tom was born in South Shields, in the North-East of England, in 1986.  He read the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, specialising in Chemistry and gaining a 1st class MSci (Hons) in 2008. He then moved across to the Materials Science and Metallurgy Department, to study the physical properties of porous hybrid frameworks under Professor Anthony Cheetham FRS.

Modified: 14/03/2025, 11:06 am

Created: 14/03/2025, 10:55 am
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Professor Shaun Hendy

Shaun Hendy is Director of the Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence, and a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland. Shaun has a PhD in physics from the University of Alberta in Canada and a BSc (Hons) in mathematical physics from Massey University. 

Modified: 17/06/2025, 1:18 pm

Created: 5/03/2019, 10:10 pm
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Dr Shen Chong

Dr Shen Chong is a Senior Scientist at Robinson Research Institute (VUW) based at Callaghan Innovation, Lower Hutt. He received his PhD in Materials Chemistry from The University of Auckland in 2002 and was awarded a FRST postdoctoral fellowship in the same year.

Modified: 14/03/2025, 8:14 am

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Chris Bumby

Chris Bumby is an applied materials physicist whose research spans a diverse range of materials engineering topics, including hydrogen steelmaking, ceramic semiconductors and superconducting machines. Born and raised in England, Chris completed his DPhil. in Physics at the University of Oxford in 2005. Shortly afterwards, he arrived in New Zealand to undertake a Royal Society (UK) Fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington. He has subsequently never left...

Modified: 12/09/2025, 8:51 am

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Grant Williams

Professor Grant Williams is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University of Wellingon. He is currently involved in a number of research programmes that include the study of new materials for magnetic sensors, optical materials and methods for radiation detection and imaging, bulk acoustic wave filters, water purification using natural photonic crystals, high temperature superconductors, inductive power transfer for electrical vehicles, and topological insulators.

Modified: 17/06/2025, 1:19 pm

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Stephen Moratti - gels for medical treatments

Associate Professor Stephen Moratti is improving gels for use in medical treatments and to act as "bandages for the body".

Modified: 21/05/2019, 6:53 am

Created: 23/02/2015, 12:00 am
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How to make solar electricity cheap? Move light sideways

Dr Nate Davis brought his research from the UK to New Zealand to make solar technology more affordable.

Modified: 5/11/2019, 4:14 pm

Created: 5/11/2019, 4:06 pm
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