It was a successful outing at the IChemE AGM on the 17 May, which was held at Waikato University.  Isaac Severinsen represented the department and presented his work on digital twin for the IChemE Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition.  Ramin Razmi who is awaiting for this PhD examination and now based in Hamilton with…

Congratulations CHEMMAT PhD student, Gevargis Muramthookil Thomas, for winning the Social issues category of the Ideas challenge conducted by Velocity. Gevargis is under the supervision of Dr Filicia Wicaksana and Dr Shan Yi. The IDEAS Challenge was organised by Velocity, The University of Auckland Entrepreneurship Programme. The challenge invited ideas to solve social issues, environmental…

Dilieka is studying for a PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering and is the recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by Fonterra Cooperative Limited. Dilieka previously completed a Bachelor of Science at Uva Wellassa University in Sri Lanka, and a Masters in Chemical Engineering at the University of Auckland. “Coming from a background in water…

Bryan completed a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Science Conjoint and is now involved in research that leads to global decarbonisation. Bryan came to the University from China to study a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)/Bachelor of Science Conjoint, majoring in Chemical and Materials Engineering and Environmental Science. “After falling in love with New Zealand’s beautiful…

On the evening of Thursday, 20 April 2023 CHEMMAT held an event for the Auckland chapter of IChemE. Feedback has been positive, with the members enjoying the lab tours and presentations from staff about the research that goes in in the Department. We had a good turnout of IChemE members and some excellent discussions. Thanks…

Last summer, Kathy Pu performed her summer research scholarship under supervision of  CHEMMAT’s Dr Vonne van Heeswijk. Her research project was focused on characterising the microstructure of ovine facet joint cartilage. A poster of this research was exhibited at the faculty of Engineering’s Poster presentation day and Kathy’s poster was selected as highly commended and…

CHEMMAT’s Professor Brent Young, guest lecturer Michael Taube, and alumnus Dr Isuru Udugama have recently had a text book published by Wiley entitled “A Real-time Approach to Distillation Control”.    Written substantially over lock down, “A Real-Time Approach to Distillation Process Control” is a practical and hands-on discussion of modern distillation control. In the book,…

Photo: CHEMMAT’s Professor Mohammed Farid at his Exaugural Lecture on Thursday, 17 November Professor Mohammed Farid Congratulations Mohammed on an amazing career and we wish you all the best for your retirement!       Staff Awards – 2022 On 9th Dec 2022, the Faculty held its annual end-of-year celebration. The celebration brings all staff together…

Postgraduate Symposium 2022 Our Postgraduate Symposium 2022 was held on 30 August 2022. It was well attended and we were fortunate to have two alumni, Sinemobong Essien and Eldon Tate as guest speakers. Winners for best oral presentation, poster, microscopy image, nominated students were: Best Oral Presentations Materials: Judith Glasson (Crystallin Clear: Improving Bioengineered Corneal…