We are delighted to share the great news that Laura Domigan has been awarded a UoA Early Career Research Excellence Award! This is an outstanding achievement, and the award recognises and promotes excellence and research leadership potential among emerging researchers in the University. Well done Laura!

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,…

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…

CHEMMAT’s Associate Professor Saeid Baroutian was featured on Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon on his research on waste minimisation in the healthcare industry. Read/listen to it.

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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Photo: Dr Harshpreet Singh   We are excited to share that the NZ Product Accelerator team won the Velocity Innovation Challenge 2021 under the UN Sustainable Development category led by Dr. Harshpreet Singh. The venture (H2OQUAL) aims to develop a sensitive, low-cost, and point-of-care sensing water quality monitoring system. The system will be mass-producible, which…

Akash Kaushal M B, a master’s student from Professor Mohammed Farid’s group won the New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Masters Prize in Engineering, awarded to recognise excellence in the field of Engineering. Akash worked on the project titled ‘High Pressure Processing in Infusion and Gelatinization: An application on Rice’. The research work was focused on retention…

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…