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Dr Alex Hamilton

Alex completed his PhD in 2010 on computational and structural organometallic chemistry at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Professor A. Guy Orpen and Professor Jeremy N. Harvey. He then moved to ICIQ in Spain for a postdoctoral research fellowship in computational catalysis with Professor Carles Bo. In 2013 he undertook a one-year teaching fellowship in physical chemistry at Massey University, Palmerston North. From there he moved back to the UK to take up a Lectureship in Physical Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2025 he moved to Victoria University of Wellington as a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry.

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Associate Professor Owen Curnow

Owen began his research career with an MSc at the University of Waikato on Sn-Co clusters with Professor Brian Nicholson. He then went to the University of Michigan where he studied Mo-Co-S clusters as models for hydrodesulfurization (HDS) with Professor David Curtis. Owen then did postdoctoral research at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Professor Russell Hughes) working with perfluorinated ligands, and the University of Heidelberg (Professor Gottfried Huttner) where he developed tethered cyclopentadienyl-phosphine ligands. He joined the University of Canterbury in 1993.

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Dr Shanghai Wei

Shanghai Wei completed his PhD on magnesium alloys in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, focusing on nano-structured materials, nanocomposite coatings, and Transmission Electron Microscopy analysis. From 2016 until the end of 2022, he was employed as a Key Research Technologist at the New Zealand Product Accelerator—a national research programme—working closely with both researchers and industry partners to develop technology platforms for maximum economic benefit to New Zealand.

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Dr Kai Sellschopp

Kai Sellschopp is a Computational Materials Scientist with an interdisciplinary background, holding degrees in both materials engineering and physics from the TU Dresden (Germany). His PhD at the Hamburg University of Technology focused on modelling interactions between small organic molecules and transition metal oxide surfaces. Following his interest in machine learning, he also spent four months at the EPFL in Lausanne as a visiting scholar. As a Postdoctoral Walter-Benjamin Fellow at the Institute of Hydrogen Technology at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Kai studied metal hydrides for hydrogen storage applications using atomic-scale modelling methods. He recently got appointed as a Lecturer of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury, where he now builds a group for the Computational Design of Sustainable Chemical Processes.

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Glass’s newest chemical cousin, and the promise it shows for CO2 capture, energy technologies medical advances, and more

For most of us, glass is simply something we look through or drink from.

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MacDiarmid Institute researchers successful in latest MBIE round

The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from its researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour Fund round.

Modified: 23/09/2024, 9:30 am

Created: 20/09/2024, 12:58 pm
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From farm to forefront of innovative science

Her day job of working to decarbonise the zinc and steel industries is a fair stretch from lambing time on a west Otago spread for Lily Clague.

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Quarterly newsletters

We send newsletters as a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with you events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute.

Our Alumni Newsletter is a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with our alumni jobs and events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute whānau.

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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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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.

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Dr Charlie Ruffman

Charlie is a Senior Research Fellow at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Otago in 2021, where he worked on modelling and optimising affordable catalysts for hydrogen production, before moving to the role of Research Fellow at the University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau. Charlie was awarded a Rutherford Post-doctoral Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2021 to investigate new liquid metal catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction. In 2023, he received an independent Marsden Fast-Start Grant to continue his work on liquid metals and determine how their structure can be controlled by the addition of supporting materials. 

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Dr Joseph Nelson

Joseph Nelson studied for his MSc in Physics at the University of Auckland, working on quantum optics theory in the group of Howard Carmichael. He then moved overseas to the UK, completing his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, working on computational crystal structure prediction.

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