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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: 19 Jun 2025, 11:18 am

Created: 19 Jun 2025, 6:13 pm
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Welcome to our Investigators in new roles

We welcome ten new Principal Investigators and ten new Associate Investigators

Modified: 10 Apr 2025, 11:49 am

Created: 2 Apr 2025, 10:15 am
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Dr Joe Chen

Joe Chen completed his PhD at the University of Canterbury on image reconstruction algorithms for serial crystallography using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL). He then moved to sunny Arizona, USA, as a postdoc in the Physics Department at Arizona State University, honing his skills in XFEL-related things. Now he has returned to New Zealand as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Canterbury.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 9:05 pm

Created: 13 Mar 2025, 9:00 pm
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Turning Waste into Wealth

‘Recycling less than 10% of plastics is a disaster for the planet.

Modified: 13 Mar 2025, 1:59 pm

Created: 12 Mar 2025, 12:35 pm
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Celebrating International Women's Day 2025

As part of International Women's Day IWD2025, we're celebrating our younger researchers and some of their recent achievements 

Modified: 14 Apr 2025, 7:58 pm

Created: 11 Mar 2025, 8:56 am
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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 Sept 2024, 9:30 am

Created: 20 Sept 2024, 12:58 pm
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On a mission to disrupt the US$45 billion global surfactant industry with greener alternatives

AUT-based Associate Investigator, Dr Jack Chen, has today been announced as a finalist for the 2024 KiwiNet Sprout Agritech Breakthrough Innovator…

Modified: 23 Jan 2025, 1:03 pm

Created: 29 Aug 2024, 11:27 am
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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.

Modified: 30 May 2025, 10:57 am

Created: 10 Jun 2024, 7:39 pm
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MacDiarmid Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships - Annual Report 2023

We welcome Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens, Dr Amy Yewdall, and Dr Bicheng Zhu with Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Modified: 5 Jun 2024, 6:36 am

Created: 13 Apr 2024, 6:58 pm
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Weaving Mātauranga Māori with contemporary science to create sustainable materials for water purification - Annual Report 2023

The structure of harakeke (New Zealand flax) closely mirrors that of polymeric membranes often used in water purification.

Modified: 11 May 2025, 2:19 am

Created: 12 Apr 2024, 11:48 pm
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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.

Modified: 23 Jan 2025, 1:09 pm

Created: 4 Apr 2024, 6:08 pm
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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.

Modified: 6 Dec 2023, 4:43 pm

Created: 28 Sept 2023, 4:26 pm
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