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Science for a Sustainable Future - Nelson (11 November)

Prof Sally Brooker and Dr Paul Hume talk about the new research programmes, our Institute, and what the start of the new contract means for us.

Modified: 4/11/2021, 2:47 pm

Created: 4/11/2021, 2:26 pm
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Germans backing South Island green hydrogen research centre

A planned green hydrogen research centre in Dunedin now has the financial backing of both the New Zealand and German governments.

Modified: 20/10/2021, 2:44 pm

Created: 20/10/2021, 1:52 pm
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Dr Muhammad Hanif

Muhammad Hanif is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. He has been working in New Zealand since March 2013. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria. His research contributions have been recognised by prestigious awards including the Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship, and Alan Sargeson Lectureship Award.

Modified: 13/09/2023, 1:04 pm

Created: 27/09/2021, 1:20 pm
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Associate Professor Jon Kitchen

Jon is an Associate Professor at the Auckland University of Technology, having previously been a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Chemistry at Massey University. He conducted his PhD research at the University of Otago with Prof Sally Brooker (2009) working on spin-crossover systems. In 2010 he was awarded an Irish Research Council Science Engineering and Technology Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research into self-assembled luminescent materials at Trinity College Dublin under the mentorship of Prof Thorri Gunnlaugsson. He moved to the University of Southampton, UK as a lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry before joining Massey in 2018.

Modified: 1/05/2024, 3:09 pm

Created: 30/06/2021, 8:32 am
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Dr Ben Yin

Ben started his research career at the National University of Singapore, and obtained his PhD of chemical and process engineering from the University of Canterbury. Afterwards, he undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials Center of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and led an industrial product R&D project in China. He returned to New Zealand with funding from the MacDiarmid Institute and worked at Massey University. He then worked as a research scientist at the New Zealand Institute for Minerals to Materials Research, before moving to the Robinson Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington. In April 2025, he moved to the University of Canterbury where he currently works as a Senior Lecturer.

Modified: 30/04/2025, 1:13 pm

Created: 18/06/2021, 3:31 pm
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Towards Zero Carbon - Catalytic Architectures

Our research will support New Zealand's goal for 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050. We will explore new materials that will catch CO₂ from air and waste streams. We'll also design new catalysts that will turn CO₂ into green fuels.

Modified: 7/06/2025, 1:34 am

Created: 12/06/2021, 5:34 am
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Professor Martyn Coles

Martyn Coles studied for his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Durham, UK. His PhD was in the area of olefin polymerization catalysis under the supervision of Professor Vernon C. Gibson.

Modified: 3/11/2023, 5:25 pm

Created: 10/03/2021, 9:13 am
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Liquid metals that create nanostructure - it’s the little details that count

PhD candidate and MacDiarmid Institute researcher Stephanie Lambie from successfully kick-started a new collaboration with FLEET.

Modified: 22/04/2021, 12:05 pm

Created: 8/03/2021, 3:16 pm
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Dr Prasanth Gupta

Dr Prasanth Gupta completed his PhD with the Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science in 2017. His doctoral work was focused on synthesis of novel transition metal-based nanoparticles in carbon matrices by ion beam engineering and studying their resultant structural and magnetic properties. During his PhD he worked part-time in GNS Science to develop isotopically pure silicon for quantum computing. He now works as a scientist at the Materials Team of GNS Science. He has worked on several MBIE-funded projects with applications targeting development of novel materials and innovative processes for sustainable low-carbon future.

Modified: 13/12/2023, 9:11 pm

Created: 3/03/2021, 4:55 pm
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Dr Kai Chen

Kai received his PhD in physics from Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) in 2015. He then worked as a Postdoc Fellow in the Ultrafast Spectroscopy group at VUW under Dr Justin Hodgkiss’s supervision. Before joining VUW, he had research experience at Academia Sinica and earned his bachelor's degree in physics and master's in electronic engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Modified: 4/03/2021, 11:38 am

Created: 3/03/2021, 8:59 am
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Dr Luke Liu

Luke completed his PhD on multicomponent metal-organic frameworks with Prof Shane Telfer at Massey University. He then moved to Northwestern University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof T. David Harris’ lab working on 2D metal-organic magnetic semiconductors. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington in 2020 and lead the Porous Materials Research Group.

Modified: 25/07/2025, 2:50 pm

Created: 1/03/2021, 11:34 am
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Associate Professor Steven Matthews

Steven’s PhD in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland (2004), focused on the high temperature erosion-corrosion mechanisms of Cr3C2-NiCr high velocity thermal sprayed coatings. From 2004–2007 he was employed as a R&D Manager for Bekaert Advanced Coatings, Belgium. His focus was on the development of sputtering targets for the large area glass and electronics industries. This incorporated projects on materials as diverse as Zn, Si, TiO2 and novel electronic materials, that spanned from powder feedstock preparation, industrial thermal spray production, and failure analysis.

Modified: 16/08/2023, 11:25 am

Created: 1/03/2021, 10:42 am
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