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Dr Laura Cobus

Laura obtained her PhD from the University of Manitoba in Canada in 2016. She moved to the Institut Langevin (ESPCI) in Paris, France for postdoctoral work, and performed a second  postdoc at the University of Auckland before becoming an independent Research Fellow there. In 2024, she settled into a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

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Nine Kiwi startups could offset emissions at the scale of NZ forests

Today’s launch of the New Zealand Cleantech Impact Report 2026 shows New Zealand has a pipeline of Cleantech companies with…

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Weaving solutions to tackle waterway pollution

From harakeke-woven filters to light-driven chemistry, MacDiarmid Institute researchers are reimagining how Aotearoa New Zealand can clean its waterways through innovations that unite modern materials science and Māori knowledge

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Borrowing from biology for green chemistry solutions to pollutants

In the hunt for chemical systems that can carry out multiple tasks efficiently, and reconfigure themselves for different purposes, our researchers at Massey University and at the University of Auckland are finding the best inspiration comes from the biological cell.

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Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals

The MacDiarmid Institute invites applications for new Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals.

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19 of our Investigators have been successful across 12 Marsden projects

This year 19 of our Investigators have been successful across 12 Marsden projects:

University of Auckland Marsden projects led by MacDiarmid…

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Two of our researchers take home 2025 KiwiNet Research Commercialisation awards

Two of our researchers took home KiwiNet awards last night — Dr Ben Mallett won the Ara Ake Breakthrough Innovator…

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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.

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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…

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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.

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2024 Cluster hui - Annual Report 2024

30 researchers, from undergraduate students right through to the most veteran of researchers, attended the Thin Films Hui.

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The healing partnership of silicone and sulphur - Annual Report 2024

The qualities that make silicones so useful make them very hard to recycle, and most used silicone goes to landfill.

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