CHEMMAT PhD candidate Annie Wang awarded new Callaghan Innovation fund

Congratulations to CHEMMAT PhD candidate Annie Wang and her supervision team for being awarded a new Callaghan Innovation fund to support her PhD project to the value of $91,500.   PhD project title: Development of an eco-friendly, anticorrosion and antifouling polymer coating system for marine applications PhD Candidate: Annie Wang Supervision Team: Prof Wei Gao,…

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‘Raising the Bar’: CHEMMAT’s Assoc Prof Saeid Baroutian

From Left: Dr Rob Burrell (Anaesthetist), CHEMMAT’s Assoc Prof Saeid Baroutian   Congratulations Saeid! On the evening of Tuesday, 20 April, we gathered across ten bars to cheer on twenty bright minds. CHEMMAT’s Assoc Prof Saeid Baroutian was one of them. Saeid gave his talk alongside Rob Burrell at the Dice & Fork in Freemans…

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In memory of Associate Professor Kevin Free

Photo: A/P Kevin Free, 31/1/1932 – 23/5/2021   Kevin Free was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering from 1986 until 2000 when he retired at the age of 68. After completing his undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the then Canterbury College, a constituent college of the University of New…

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CHEMMAT alumni catch-ups

Photo: CHEMMAT alumni Dr Farzam Shahni   Dr Farzam Shahni completed comprehensive research in control and automation with a specialization in process monitoring. His research was an industrial project in the Industrial Information and Control Centre (I2C2) at the University of Auckland. Farzam developed and established a novel method to evaluate the performance of industrial…

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