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MESA is born

Principal Investigator Associate Professor Natalie Plank recalls walking into the offices of the Deputy Director and Centre Manager back in 2010 and pitching the idea for a MacDiarmid Institute student-led organisation

Modified: 21 Apr 2023, 8:09 pm

Created: 21 Apr 2023, 5:37 pm
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2021

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.

Modified: 3 Jun 2022, 1:19 pm

Created: 9 May 2022, 8:59 pm
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Awards - Annual Report 2021

This provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators in 2021.

Modified: 3 Jun 2022, 10:53 am

Created: 9 May 2022, 10:58 am
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Bridging the divide between theoretical and experimental physics

Dr Kannan Ridings from Rongowhakaata is one of the MacDiarmid Institute’s newest Associate Investigators.

Modified: 4 Sept 2023, 5:11 pm

Created: 22 Feb 2022, 2:32 pm
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Internationally connected

Nicola Gaston and Sally Brooker were invited to join a German Academic Exchange Service-funded delegation to Germany..

Modified: 1 Apr 2021, 11:33 am

Created: 31 Mar 2021, 10:08 am
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Covid-19: The maths that explains why we’re locking down

Want to avoid Covid-19? Shaun Hendy explains the statistical modelling that helps us understand how diseases spread.

Modified: 1 Apr 2020, 3:52 pm

Created: 1 Apr 2020, 3:42 pm
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Professor Shaun Hendy

Shaun Hendy is Director of the Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence, and a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland. Shaun has a PhD in physics from the University of Alberta in Canada and a BSc (Hons) in mathematical physics from Massey University. 

Modified: 4 Apr 2022, 2:44 pm

Created: 5 Mar 2019, 10:10 pm
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Professor Shaun Hendy

Shaun Hendy is Director of the Te Pūnaha Matatini, a Centre of Research Excellence, and a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland. Shaun has a PhD in physics from the University of Alberta in Canada and a BSc(Hons) in mathematical physics from Massey University. 

Modified: 27 Feb 2019, 4:15 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm

Professor Nicola Spaldin – cosmic strings

What do the origins of the early universe have to do with materials science? More than you might think, according to Nicola Spaldin and her colleagues at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Spaldin has found an unusual material that mimics aspects of the way the universe might have been shortly after the Big Bang.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
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Nature of Science – meet our scientists

Bill, Alex, Cather, Maan, Shaun and Sandy work at The MacDiarmid Institute - they all do science for a living, but have very different jobs and perspectives. One thing they all have in common is their passion for science.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:06 pm

Created: 23 Oct 2013, 12:00 am
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