IChemE Safety Centre – Lessons from Regulators

IChemE’s Safety Centre Director Trish Kerin discusses key lessons with two former regulators. Dame Judith Hackitt was the Chair of the UK Health and Safety Executive and is also involved in advising Governments in UK and in Australia on reform of Building Safety Regulation. Jane Cutler was the CEO of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety…

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Way to go, Wei!

In June 2020 it was announced that Chemmat’s Professor Wei Gao had been awarded  The Vice-Chancellor’s Commercialisation Medal as part of the University of Auckland 2020 Research Excellence Awards. From the UoA website: Professor Wei Gao from Chemical and Materials Engineering has been a very active and vocal supporter of the value of industry engagement…

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Innovative solutions in response to COVID-19

In May 2020, $25M for innovative solutions in response to COVID-19 was announced by the government. $110K was awarded to Chemmat’s Associate Professor Ashton Partridge’s company Digital Sensing Ltd. The name of their project for testing for COVID-19,  is “Mass-production of point-of-care diagnostics for COVID19 and blood based biomarkers – Phase 1: Testing the biology.”…

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April message – Head of Department

April 2020   On Monday 30 March 2020, the University began full online teaching to provide some sense of business continuity amidst the nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown. As staff scrambled to prepare, students were understandably anxious on how the following weeks, and possibly months, would play out for their learning experience. For this to…

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Chemmat alumni James Woolner

An interview with Chemmat alumni James Woolner who is presently living in The Netherlands:   In 2018 I decided to do what every Kiwi seems to do in their career, move to Europe. Being a UK national and therefore having EU citizenship, I thought it would be more of a challenge to move into Europe…

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CMESA news

Update from Matthew Oei, President, CMESA:   Despite the challenges of lockdown, we put together two events, as well as a wellness post for the University’s Mental Health Day on 5 May 2020. We had a Kahoot quiz that had a $50 prize pack and a TikTok challenge that, thanks to club space, had a…

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MBIE funding update – Prof Mohammed Farid

    Chemmat’s Professor Mohammed Farid has three MBIE-funded projects. Listed below, the first two have already been contracted, and the third one should be contracted very soon.   Title: Quality and safety assurance for high value cold-smoked or eaten raw salmon products using HPP alone or in a hurdle combination Total funding $80,000 for…

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