News & events
MacDiarmid Institute - Annual Report 2021
2 May, 2022
From 2002 - 2021
758 PhD graduates
925 research alumni
4000+ conference attendees
80 inventions patented
22 affiliated start-up companies created
Annual Report 2020 - HTML version
Introduction
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
- Discovery Scholarships programme grows with new sponsorship
- MOU celebrates ongoing partnership with Whakarewarewa Living Village
- World Geothermal Congress in collaboration with Whakarewarewa
Living Village - Summer of lab
Out of the Lab
- To 2028 and beyond
- Biodegradable electronic devices for wildlife conservation and lifestock
management thanks to clever proteins - Reconnecting hapū and whānau with their whenua
- How to map an ancient stratovolcano
- Bridging the divide between theoretical and experimental physics
- Producing technology-critical materials for a low-emission future
- Developing highly functional and tailorable surface coatings
- Putting wellbeing at the heart of student supervision
- PhD recruitment
- New Associate Investigators 2021
- Rethinking computing and communication, by combining cell biology
with nanotechnology - Professor Neil W. Ashcroft (1938—2021)
- Emeritus Professor Alan Kaiser (1946-2021)
- Awards 2021
- Funding successes 2021
Into the marketplace
- Capital raised
- Awards received
- MacDiarmid Institute-affiliated companies founded between 2002 and 2021
- 2021 Alumni Business Scholars
- Seeding success
- Science Advisory Panels for companies seeking R&D support
- Techweek
- Patent Activity
Into the community
- Spinning out a podcast
- Sponsoring our first House of Science branch
- Juliet Gerrard: Science in Dark Times
- Science for a sustainable future
- Reaching out to the deep south
- Joining forces with University of Otago chemistry outreach
Into the future
- Internships
- Women in the MacDiarmid Institute
- MacDiarmid Emerging Scientists' Association (MESA)
- Alumni newsletters launched
Into the metrics
Annual Report 2021 - PDF version
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