Simon is an experimental materials physicist and NZ expert in thin film magnetic materials. His field is spin-electronics, or spintronics, where he investigates the advanced magnetic materials needed to bring about a future generation of energy-efficient, ultra-high-speed and high-performance computer memory and logic that uses the magnetism, or “spin”, of electrons. He also co-leads a research programme that utilises spintronics for quantum computing technologies.
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Professor, Associate Investigator, and Director of the Photon Factory, Cather Simpson talks about her work in photonics.
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Martin Allen is a Professor in electrical engineering at the University of Canterbury. He has a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, UK, an MSc in Plasma Physics from the University of Oxford, UK, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury.
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Professor Simon Brown is based at the University of Canterbury. Simon has a BSc (Hons) degree from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD. from the University of Cambridge, UK.
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Professor Nicola Gaston is Director of the MacDiarmid Institute and a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Nicola Gaston was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at VUW.
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After obtaining his PhD from the University of Pisa in Italy in 2001, Michele has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Karlsruhe, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Ruhr-Unversität Bochum, and Dusiburg-Essen University. In 2009 he moved to Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where he is currently based.
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Ben completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington before undertaking postdoctoral work at in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Laboratory of Professor Tom Tiedje at the University of British Columbia. He returned to New Zealand on a FRST Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Professor Joe Trodahl before taking a position on the academic staff at Victoria University in 2003.
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Professor Mark Waterland has been on the academic staff in the Institute of Fundamental Science at Massey University since 2003.
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Dr Natalie Plank is Deputy Director for Commercialisation and Industry Engagement and an Associate Professor in Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Natalie completed a BSc (Hons) in Astrophysics at The University of Edinburgh before doing an MSc in Microelectronics. She then completed her PhD on the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics with Rebecca Cheung also at The University of Edinburgh.
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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.
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Physicist and MacDiarmid Institute alumna Dr Rebecca Hawke talks about solar cells and where science has taken her around the world
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Associate Professor Ben Ruck (Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Harry Warring (Rocket Lab) talk about their lives and work.
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