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MESA is born

Principal Investigator Associate Professor Natalie Plank recalls walking into the offices of the Deputy Director and Centre Manager back in 2010 and pitching the idea for a MacDiarmid Institute student-led organisation

Modified: 31/07/2025, 10:56 am

Created: 21/04/2023, 5:37 pm
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2021

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.

Modified: 3/06/2022, 1:19 pm

Created: 9/05/2022, 8:59 pm
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Awards - Annual Report 2021

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

Modified: 3/06/2022, 10:53 am

Created: 9/05/2022, 10:58 am
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Bridging the divide between theoretical and experimental physics

Dr Kannan Ridings from Rongowhakaata is one of the MacDiarmid Institute’s newest Associate Investigators.

Modified: 4/09/2023, 5:11 pm

Created: 22/02/2022, 2:32 pm
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Internationally connected

Nicola Gaston and Sally Brooker were invited to join a German Academic Exchange Service-funded delegation to Germany..

Modified: 1/04/2021, 11:33 am

Created: 31/03/2021, 10:08 am
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Covid-19: The maths that explains why we’re locking down

Want to avoid Covid-19? Shaun Hendy explains the statistical modelling that helps us understand how diseases spread.

Modified: 1/04/2020, 3:52 pm

Created: 1/04/2020, 3:42 pm
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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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Professor Nicola Spaldin – cosmic strings

What do the origins of the early universe have to do with materials science? More than you might think, according to Nicola Spaldin and her colleagues at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Spaldin has found an unusual material that mimics aspects of the way the universe might have been shortly after the Big Bang.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24/03/2015, 12:00 am
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Nature of Science – meet our scientists

Bill, Alex, Cather, Maan, Shaun and Sandy work at The MacDiarmid Institute - they all do science for a living, but have very different jobs and perspectives. One thing they all have in common is their passion for science.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:06 pm

Created: 23/10/2013, 12:00 am
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