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New Deputy Directors - Annual Report 2023

We have appointed two new Deputy Directors - for Outreach and Education, and for Commercialisation and Industry Engagement.

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Created: 13/04/2024, 7:16 pm
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MacDiarmid Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships - Annual Report 2023

We welcome Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens, Dr Amy Yewdall, and Dr Bicheng Zhu with Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:36 am

Created: 13/04/2024, 6:58 pm
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Inspired by the brain: Networks of nanoparticles can compute like 'spiking' neurons - Annual Report 2023

The human brain may be the most energy efficient computing system to have existed, requiring just 12 watts of power.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:32 am

Created: 12/04/2024, 10:33 pm
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Co-Directors appointed Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi

MacDiarmid Institute Co-Directors Professor Nicola Gaston and Professor Justin Hodgkiss have both been elected to the New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Academy.

Modified: 23/01/2025, 1:09 pm

Created: 4/04/2024, 6:08 pm
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Dr William Holmes-Hewett

William Holmes-Hewett received his PhD in physics from Victoria University of Wellington in 2020 on the electronic structure of rare earth nitrides. He continued this work as a postdoctoral fellow from 2020-2023. He is now a Scientist at Wellington’s Robinson Research Institute where he is pursuing the integration of the same rare-earth nitride materials in cryogenic and superconducting memory technologies.

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Created: 16/11/2023, 2:58 pm
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Dr Daniel Sando

Daniel Sando earned his PhD in physics from the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) on experimental laser physics in 2010. Following his PhD, he held postdoctoral positions at Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales (France) and the Center for Correlated Electron Systems (Seoul, South Korea) until 2015. He then joined UNSW Sydney as a research fellow. Since 2023, he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury.

Modified: 18/06/2026, 8:19 am

Created: 8/09/2023, 12:45 pm
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Three Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded

The MacDiarmid Institute has three new Independent Postdoctoral Fellows.

Modified: 2/02/2024, 6:53 pm

Created: 24/05/2023, 4:01 pm
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Our research programmes over the years

There has been an evolution to move the focus of applications more towards global challenges of climate change and sustainability.

Modified: 19/04/2023, 6:33 pm

Created: 18/04/2023, 7:41 pm
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Word Clouds - Annual Report 2022

Word clouds drawn from our research plans prepared for TEC.

Modified: 4/10/2023, 8:11 pm

Created: 18/04/2023, 7:32 pm
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Call for Independent Post-Doctoral Fellowships

The MacDiarmid Institute invites applications for new Independent Post-Doctoral Fellowships.

Modified: 13/01/2023, 9:50 am

Created: 30/08/2022, 4:34 pm
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Dr Jami Shepherd

Jami Shepherd completed her PhD on all-optical photoacoustic and laser-ultrasound imaging in heterogeneous tissue at the University of Auckland in 2017. She then moved to Paris for a postdoc position in the Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale at Sorbonne University where she worked on ultrasonic imaging of bone. Now, she has returned to New Zealand as a Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland.

Modified: 4/06/2026, 11:01 am

Created: 19/05/2022, 3:28 pm
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Rethinking computing and communication, by combining cell biology with nanotechnology

Systems that blend biology with electronics could answer some big questions.

Modified: 16/08/2022, 12:39 pm

Created: 6/05/2022, 12:55 pm
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