Photo: Team members (from the left): Chemmat’s Professor Mohammed Farid, PhD Candidates – Gohar Gholami, Misagh Ebrahimpour Over 140 teams participated in the Callaghan C-Prize competition and our team (SES: Smart Energy Storage) was amongst the 10 finalist teams to receive a prize package valued in excess of $35,000, which included: $10,000 contribution towards the…

Congratulations Amelia Rentzios, Chemmat alumni of 2005, who was one of the three finalists for the Young Executive of the Year award at the Deloitte Business Awards, announced in December 2019. She was the only finalist from Taranaki and one of a handful from provincial New Zealand. Amelia, who currently works for OMV as Maui…

Photo: Claire West and Axel Sinhuber, also from UoA (Engineering Dept, MEnergy)   The following is a report from Claire West, who won a bursary to attend the Student Energy Summit (SES) at the Imperial College in London. The Student Energy Summit (SES) is a unique bi-annual conference that brings together students from all over…

Another memorable Final Year presentations were held in the City Campus on Wednesday 30th October. Over 80 students and staff took part in the event and 28 departmental and 6 cross-departmental interesting presentations were held. There was an amazing diversity of research projects. They ranged from water, energy and food to health & wellbeing, innovative…

Photo (from Left): Esworth Reid (Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy, Barbados), Analeise Murahidy (UniServices), Nick Reilly (UniServices), Chemmat’s Dr Saeid Baroutian, Kirk Humphrey (Barbados Minister of Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs), Chemmat PhD Candidate Terrell Thompson   On September 6th,  Chemmat’s Dr Saeid Baroutian and Chemmat PhD Candidate Terrell Thompson…

As mentioned at the beginning of the semester, I was keen on planning a factory tour to O-I Glass New Zealand with the students. This visit took place on Monday, 30 September, 1-3pm with 3 lecturers (myself, Dr Shanghai Wei, and Amanda DiIenno), and 10 students from the CHEMMAT 302/754 class. It was an amazing…

Congratulations to Chemmat PhD candidate Sesha Manuguri for successfully defending his PhD thesis, “Proteins, Polymers and Nanoparticles: Self-assembly Towards Functional Nanostructures”. Sesha’s supervisors were Dr Jenny Malmstrom (Chemmat) and Prof David Williams (Chemistry).

Chemmat was fortunate to have psychiatrist Dr Jane Casey accept our invitation to give a seminar to our students and staff on Thursday, 10 October to coincide with World Mental Health Day. Jane’s talk was targeted towards PhD students and gave strategies about how to manage stress and recognise when you’re feeling stressed or burnt…

This year the Chemeca conference was held in Sydney, Australia from 29 September-2 October. At Chemeca, Chemmat’s Dr Kaveh Shahbaz presented slides from his recent study with Prof Mohammed Farid and Angela Yan, Chemmat Part III student. Kaveh’s presentation was entitled ‘Axtaxanthin extraction from crayfish heads using deep eutectic solvents.’ Astaxanthin is one of the…

The Chemical and Materials Engineering Student Association (CMESA) hosted a Pub Quiz at Shadows on Thursday 19th September at 6.30pm. There was a range of questions from pop culture and sports to materials and processing. They also had a bonus “Guess the Lecturer” round!!!