CMESA Sponsorship Proposal
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CHEMMAT PhD Student Update: Completed Theses
PhD student: Yixuan (Jenifer) Wang, Supervisors: Wei Gao & Filicia Wicaksana Electrospun Silicon Oxycarbide (SiOC) Fibre Mats and Its Composites Abstract: This work presents the preparation of ultrafine SiOC fibre mats through the electrospinning/sol-gel method,...
CHEMMAT’s Part-3 Team Project: The Alternative Fuel Vehicle
Photo: CHEMMAT’s Dr Andrea Kolb, Professional Teaching Fellow The Alternative Fuel Vehicle (AFV) team project is part of an elective for our Part III students and discusses the energy sector’s future. The project spans the entire semester and...
New CHEMMAT staff: Nadeen Papali’i, Professional Teaching Fellow
Photo: CHEMMAT’s new Professional Teaching Fellow, Nadeen Papali’i Welcome to CHEMMAT, Nadeen! Thanks for writing such a wonderful, inspiring introduction: “Tālofa my name is Nadeen Lanuola Papali’i and I have joined the CHEMMAT department as...
CHEMMAT’s Adjunct Professor Rob Kirkpatrick’s article in “The Chemical Engineer”
Photo: CHEMMAT’s Adjunct Professor Rob Kirkpatrick Read the full...
Excellent Part-4 Research Output during the Pandemic
Photo from left: CHEMMAT’s Part 4 team – Swashna Lal, Tharushi Wijesinha, Dr Amar Auckaili, Michelle Lu, and Omar Mustafa Regardless of restrictions from COVID-19 in 2020, our Part-4 students would have been able to adapt their projects accordingly...
Collaboration with the Māori Community of East Cape
Photo: Kānuka forest Whareponga, East Cape CHEMMAT’s Associate Professor Saeid Baroutian, his family, CHEMMAT’s Dr Xing Xin, Dr Sinemobong Essien and a team from the Office of Pro-Vice-Chancellor Māori (Mike Steedman- Kaiarataki), Uniservices (Dr Andy...
New Master of Engineering Studies – Sustainable Resource Recovery
Photo: CHEMMAT’s Dr Sinemobong Essien We are excited to announce our newest Master of Engineering Studies, Sustainable Resource Recovery has officially started. Resource limitation is a global problem and Sustainable Resource Recovery addresses this...
CHEMMAT’s first webinar guest: Prof Amanda Ellis, University of Melbourne
Photo: Prof Amanda Ellis, Head of Department for Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia On 5 November 2020, CHEMMAT PhD students and staff connected remotely with Prof Amanda Ellis for our first lunchtime webinar. As well as giving us...
Alumni News
Jenny Purdie, CHEMMAT ca. 1986, PhD ca. 1993 BHP appoints new asset president for Olympic Dam mega-mine 4 February 2021 BHP said Dr Purdie: “has more than 30 years of global management and leadership experience spanning operational, business improvement and...
News from Canada – Sina Sheikholeslami, CHEMMAT PhD student
Photo: Sina Sheikholeslami, CHEMMAT PhD student We recently emailed Sina to see how he was doing in Canada. He kindly supplied us with the following article, which we found very interesting and also inspiring for our PhD students. Thank you, Sina and...
December message – Head of Department
December 2020 This is our fourth and final Quarterly Chemmat Knit issue for the year. There’s quite a lot to report and update and I encourage you to please get in touch with us to find out more about any of the items of interest. Please also forward this...
Chemmat PhD candidate wins award
The Academic Career Advancement Programme (ACAP) gives mid-phase doctoral candidates a head-start in their academic future. The ACAP (formally DALI) presents a series of regular seminars over two semesters, with a focus on careers in academia, teaching, and research....
21st century solutions to 20th century problems
Congratulations Amanda and Matt on the recent arrival of your baby boy, Nathan Edward, in July.