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Professor Justin Hodgkiss
Governance Representative Ex-officio Board Member
May 2018 – present
The MacDiarmid Institute Co-Director
Victoria University of Wellington
Biography
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.
Justin completed his BSc (Hons) in chemistry at the University of Otago in 2000, and his PhD as a Fulbright Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Following his PhD, he carried out post-doctoral research in the Cavendish laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
Justin moved to Victoria University of Wellington in 2009, was a Rutherford Discovery Fellow from 2012-2016, and was Deputy Director of the MacDiarmid Institute from 2015-2018.
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