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Professor Sally Brooker

Sally did her PhD with Dr Vickie McKee at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Vickie is now a Visiting Research Professor in Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark and Adjunct Professor in Dublin City University, Ireland), and a postdoc with Professor George Sheldrick (of SHELX fame) at Göttingen University in Germany. She then returned to NZ to take up a lectureship at the University of Otago, the first position she applied for, where she is now a full professor and currently one of 7 inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professors (2020-2024). Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and in 2018 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science, MNZM. Other recent awards include: Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer (Sydney University, 2018), RSNZ Hector Medal for outstanding work in chemical, physical or mathematical and information sciences (2017), 28th Inorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Burrows Award (2017), and the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal (2017), and the inaugural triennial Curtis Lecture (Victoria University Wellington, 2015). She loves supervising her large, multinational, highly productive and high impact research team (over 210 papers to date, h = 47 Web of Science, PhD 1989), Brookers Bunch.

Modified: 19 May 2021, 3:21 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Justin Hodgkiss

Professor Justin Hodgkiss was the Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute until the end of 2024, and a Professor in Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington. He became an Emeritus Investigator in January 2025 and is now in a full-time role as CEO and Chief Scientist at his start-up, Advemto. 

Modified: 9 Jan 2025, 2:46 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Keith Gordon

Keith Gordon received his BSc Hons (First Class) in 1986 and PhD in 1989 in chemistry from Queens University, Belfast, UK. His PhD research, under the direction of Professor John J McGarvey, focused on laser spectroscopy of solar energy compounds. He was awarded a Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA, and worked with Professor W H Woodruff from 1989 – 1992 on ultrafast laser spectroscopy of biological systems and solar energy materials.

Modified: 20 May 2019, 6:43 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Associate Professor Vladimir Golovko

Dr Vladimir Golovko is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury (UC), Christchurch, NZ. His research is focused on precisely fabricated nanostructured materials for applications in heterogeneous catalysis.

Modified: 1 Apr 2020, 3:59 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Shane Telfer

Shane Telfer was born in the town of Clyde in Central Otago, New Zealand. He completed a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and is now a Professor of Chemistry at Massey University. This gradual drift northwards was punctuated by a post-doctoral odyssey that included stops in Geneva, Tokyo and Montreal.

Modified: 26 Feb 2025, 8:45 am

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Geoff Waterhouse

Geoff is a Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland and has been a Principal Investigator for the MacDiarmid Institute since 2016. He was elected as the Science Leader for the Materials for Energy Capture and Utilisation theme in April 2019.

Modified: 21 Dec 2022, 9:52 am

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Associate Professor Petrik Galvosas

Petrik Galvosas received a Dipl-Ing (FH) degree from the University of Applied Sciences of the German Telekom in 1993 which was followed by a Dipl-Phys (physics diploma degree) of the University of Leipzig in 1998. The two theses were dealing with audio recording equipment and NMR diffusometry respectively. In 2003 he received his PhD from the University of Leipzig. The thesis revolved around the diffusion in porous materials and high performance NMR diffusometry. From 2003 to 2005 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the MacDiarmid Institute. From 2005 to 2009 he held a position as Juniorprofessor at the University of Leipzig.

Modified: 12 Sept 2022, 6:59 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Paul E. Kruger

Paul undertook his BSc (Hons) and PhD degrees at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), where his research was centred on the synthesis of multi-nuclear metal complexes in the quest to develop species of bio-mimetic relevance and as novel magnetic materials. He then spent two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, investigating the structural and functional aspects of metallo-macrocyclic complexes.

Modified: 4 Aug 2023, 10:05 am

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Professor Nigel Lucas

Professor Nigel Lucas obtained his BSc (Hons) and PhD from the Australian National University working on the synthesis and photophysical properties of organometallic materials.

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Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Alumnus Matthew Cowan: the importance of failure in success

MacDiarmid Institute alumnus Dr Matthew Cowan discusses his research and the importance of failure in success.

Modified: 21 May 2019, 6:52 am

Created: 4 Nov 2018, 12:00 am
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Alumna Rebecca Hawke: an exciting career in science

Physicist and MacDiarmid Institute alumna Dr Rebecca Hawke talks about solar cells and where science has taken her around the world

Modified: 15 Apr 2020, 11:05 am

Created: 4 Nov 2018, 12:00 am
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New Principal Investigators

The MacDiarmid Institute proudly welcomes eight new principal investigators.

Modified: 16 Mar 2022, 3:53 pm

Created: 27 Aug 2018, 12:00 am
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