Photo: 40 CMESA members on the Tip Top tour CMESA – Chemical & Materials Engineering Students’ Association Tours 40 members got to tour Tip Top in Semester One. The feedback was positive and the students really enjoyed the opportunity! Thank you to Abi, Yasmin and Hussein for supervising. Unfortunately, the DB Breweries Tour lined up…

Tarek Kollmetz – awarded a place on the Dean’s List Tarek’s name has been placed on the Dean of Graduate Studies List (Dean’s List), in recognition of excellence achieved with his PhD thesis. This award is made to only a few recipients each year from the large number of doctoral students completing their theses. Since…

Photo – left to right: Fanglei Tong (PhD student), Xize Chen (PhD student), Tony Wang (PhD student), Dr Shanghai Wei (PI, University of Auckland), Professor Wei Gao (University of Auckland), Kirill Panov (PhD student), Associate Professor Peng Cao (University of Auckland), Associate Professor Tilo Söhnel (University of Auckland), Ryan Silk (PhD student) Advanced alloy anodes…

New Technical Manager – Dr Matthew Sidford We are delighted to announce that Dr Matthew Sidford has been appointed as Technical Manager for CHEMMAT. Matthew started his new role on 1st October. Although we are presently one technician short, the Technicians will continue to support the Department to the high bar set by Peter Buchanan….

Photo: CHEMMAT’s Dr Jenny Malmstrom with her research group. Jenny is seated, 3rd from the left 2021 Endeavour fund successful proposals We are delighted to announce that two of our colleagues in the department, Dr Jenny Malmstrom and Prof Brent Young, have been successful in this year’s round. We extend our heartiest congratulations to them….

On 30 November, CHEMMAT student, L’Rey Renata, presented her research to Water NZ and Engineering NZ.   L’Rey Renata L’Rey is currently in her fourth year of a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical and Material) degree at the University of Auckland. She is also a Student Water Engineer at GHD.

Dr Gohar Gholamibozanjani   PhD Title: Improving the Thermal Efficiency of Buildings Using Phase Change Materials   Supervisor: Professor Mohammed Farid   Co-Supervisor: Associate Professor Saeid Baroutian   Dr Gohar Gholamibozanjani completed her PhD research on improving the thermal efficiency of buildings using Phase Change Materials (PCMs). In recent years, population growth and industrial developments…

Staff: Ashvin, Saeid, Steve, and Mark. Student full names shown in the table below.   Outstanding performance by our final year students on their research projects were celebrated, online, with an awards ‘ceremony.’ There were a range of prizes awarding research excellence and the following table provides details. Prize About the prizes Awardee Award ($)…

For our course, CHEMMAT 753 – Biomaterials and their applications, we regularly host guests from industry to help the students get a better idea of work environments which encompass the content of the course. This year, we hosted a lab dedicated to implant technologies which was attended by the following people: Scott Bolam: Orthopaedic Registrar…