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Associate Professor Jenny Malmström
Principal Investigator
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- +64 9 923 5338
Address:
University of Auckland
2-6 Park Ave - Bldg 529
Level 1, Room 134A
Auckland 1023
Biography
Jenny Malmström is a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. She holds a MSc (bioengineering) from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and a PhD (nanoscience) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark (2010).
She moved to New Zealand in 2010 and joined the University of Auckland as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Chemical Sciences. Jenny leads the MacDiarmid Institute's Reconfigurable Systems Research Programme.
Research interests
Jenny's research is interdisciplinary and focusses on engineering surfaces for applications as advanced materials and biointerfaces. Her research group has expertise in characterising and understanding the interactions between soft matter (biomolecules, cells, polymers) and surfaces.
The group is currently applying this this detailed understanding to emerging and exciting areas such as the creation of new magnetic materials, to create ordered functional patterns of proteins and to help understand and control cellular behaviour.
You are doing something so far out there, that’s where the big breakthroughs come from. We may have built up an entirely new science.
Associate Professor Jenny Malmström
In the news
Annual Report
Journal covers - Annual Report 2023
April 15, 2024
This year, research papers authored by MacDiarmid Investigators have been featured on the front cover of seven international scientific journals.
Annual Report
2023 Funding successes - Annual Report 2023
April 13, 2024
Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2023.
Annual Report
Understanding the spread of plant diseases to tackle some of Aotearoa's major ecological threats - Annual Report 2023
April 13, 2024
The biology and mechanisms used by Phytophthora species to infect host plants and how they adapt to environmental stress.
Annual Report
Funding successes - Annual Report 2022
April 19, 2023
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2022. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
Annual Report
Science for a sustainable future
May 27, 2022
The 2021 Regional Lecture Series was able to go ahead in-person this year, with the theme of Science for a Sustainable Future.
Annual Report
Funding successes - Annual Report 2021
May 9, 2022
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2021. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
Annual Report
Biodegradable electronic devices for wildlife conservation and lifestock management thanks to clever proteins
May 5, 2022
MBIE funds research into a new generation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags.
Annual Report
Summer of lab
May 4, 2022
Discovery Scholarship recipients spent their summer in various labs undertaking research.
Annual Report
The emerging field of mechanobiology
March 31, 2021
Physics biology collaborations are forging mechanobiology – a research area key to understanding health and disease.
Annual Report
Funding successes - Annual Report 2020
March 24, 2021
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2020. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
News Article
Unexpected directions make new maps
October 22, 2020
Becoming CEO of a startup is never straightforward, but Dr Kyle Webster has taken the ‘long road’ to an extreme
Annual Report
Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019
May 27, 2020
This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.
Read more about Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Annual Report
Dr Jenny Malmström on running her own research lab
April 17, 2020
When Dr Jenny Malmström arrived in New Zealand fresh out of her PhD nine years ago to take up an 18-month postdoc position at the University of Auckland, a permanent position and the prospect of her own research lab seemed a long way off.
Read more about Dr Jenny Malmström on running her own research lab
Annual Report
When physics meets biochemistry - Annual Report 2018
April 8, 2019
Could bio-inspired self-assembled magnetic structures make computers more efficient?
Read more about When physics meets biochemistry - Annual Report 2018
Annual Report
New Principal Investigators - Annual Report 2018
April 8, 2019
An overview of the research interests of each of our eight new Principal Investigators.
Read more about New Principal Investigators - Annual Report 2018
Annual Report
2018 funding successes - Annual Report 2018
April 8, 2019
Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.
Annual Report
Journal covers - Annual Report 2018
April 8, 2019
This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2018.
News Article
New Principal Investigators
August 27, 2018
The MacDiarmid Institute proudly welcomes eight new principal investigators.
Events
Science for a Sustainable Future - Napier (15 November)
November 4, 2021
Dr Jenny Malmström, Assoc Prof Mark Waterland and Dr Kim McKelvey talk about the new research programmes, our Institute, and what the start of the new contract means for us.
Read more Science for a Sustainable Future - Napier (15 November)
Podcasts
Biolin Scientific episode 25 with Dr Jenny Malmström
April 5, 2022
Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jenny Malmström talks to Biolin Scientific about technologies and methods used in a Biointerfaces lab.
Read more about Biolin Scientific episode 25 with Dr Jenny Malmström
Jenny Malmström on RNZ
May 9, 2019
Associate Investigator Jenny Malmström talks to RNZ about stem cells, implants and materials science.
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