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The 2025 chemistry Nobel goes to MOFs

‘What a moment for those of us who love MOFs! It’s not every day that they grab the headlines, but…

Modified: 10/10/2025, 1:58 pm

Created: 9/10/2025, 12:54 pm
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Weaving pūtaiao Māori into materials science

Highlighting here some of our research weaving pūtaiao Māori into materials science

Modified: 25/09/2025, 8:36 am

Created: 18/09/2025, 4:48 pm
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Three MacDiarmid Institute researchers (plus one affiliated company) are finalists in the 2025 KiwiNet Awards

Three MacDiarmid Institute researchers (plus one affiliated company) are finalists in the 2025 KiwiNet Awards. Principal Investigator Professor Aaron Marshall, and Associate Investigators Dr Michel Nieuwoudt and Dr Ben Mallett have been shortlisted for the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.

Modified: 7/08/2025, 2:27 pm

Created: 7/08/2025, 8:32 am
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Showcasing climate innovation: Cleantech takes the lead in Christchurch

When University of Canterbury Professor Aaron Marshall first heard of the high cost of recycling zinc waste, he didn’t realise…

Modified: 16/07/2025, 3:52 pm

Created: 16/07/2025, 1:27 pm
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MacDiarmid Institute researchers named in prestigious UK science award

Three MacDiarmid Institute researchers are announced as winners of the prestigious 2025 UK Royal Society of Chemistry prize.

Modified: 26/06/2025, 8:59 am

Created: 25/06/2025, 10:27 am
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Celebrating Matariki values in our research

Deputy Director Māori, Associate Professor Pauline Harris, explores some of our research that relates to the values of Matariki.

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:49 am

Created: 19/06/2025, 6:13 pm
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Where great ideas bubble up - Annual Report 2024

The key to breakthroughs that can help to decarbonise the economy is revisiting chemical processes to gain new insights.

Modified: 18/07/2025, 2:26 am

Created: 8/06/2025, 7:30 pm
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Welcome to our Investigators in new roles

We welcome ten new Principal Investigators and ten new Associate Investigators

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:51 am

Created: 2/04/2025, 10:15 am
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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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Dr Rosalyn Falconer

Rosalyn Falconer completed her MChem degree at the University of Oxford and PhD in Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Bristol. She then undertook postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh and the CNRS in France. In 2022, Rosalyn was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Rosalyn joined the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland as a lecturer in 2024.

Modified: 18/03/2025, 3:25 pm

Created: 14/03/2025, 9:00 am
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Professor Sarah Masters

Sarah joined the University of Canterbury in 2011 and is currently Professor of Physical Chemistry. She moved to New Zealand from her previous position as Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Sarah leads the Structural Chemistry and Molecular Design Research Group in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury and has significant experience and achievements in structure determination and computational method development.

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Created: 13/03/2025, 9:53 pm
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Dr Ziyun Wang

Ziyun Wang is a computational chemist specializing in theoretical catalysis and machine learning. He conducted his doctoral research in theoretical catalysis at the Queen’s University of Belfast and the University of Manchester under the guidance of Professor Peijun Hu and Professor Chris Hardacre. This was followed by postdoctoral research with Professor Jens Nørskov and Professor Thomas Bligaard at Stanford University and with Professor Edward Sargent at the University of Toronto. In 2021, Ziyun joined the School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland.

Modified: 13/03/2025, 9:50 pm

Created: 13/03/2025, 9:45 pm
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