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...

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...

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...

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...

   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...

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...

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....

Congratulations Amanda and Matt on the recent arrival of your baby boy, Nathan Edward, in July.

To celebrate Recycling Week, Vanessa Young, Strategic Engagement Manager from The MacDiarmid Institute, explains the essential role of nano-recycling in making the most of the tiny-scale but potentially harmful waste from batteries, circuit boards and more. For most...

Each year the department holds a Research Showcase where PhD students have the opportunity to disseminate their research, and showcase the breadth of research across all areas of chemical and materials engineering.  The showcase is a mixture of oral and poster...

Photo: Chemmat’s PhD candidate, Syeda Wishal Bokhari   U21’s Graduate Collaborative Research Awards (GCRA) are designed to be flexible and encourage doctoral candidates, with the support of their supervisors/advisors, to think innovatively about how...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvbbpApkwfs&list=PL4HzhwJDIG9KJB5rxR3HHHXmHiopAbfW1 The value of membership and Chartered status In their first video of their ‘In Conversation’ series, IChemE President, Stephen Richardson and Deputy President, Jane...

From Left: Chemmat’s Dr Steve Matthews, Dr Amar Auckaili   Congratulations to Chemmat’s Dr Steve Matthews and Dr Amar Auckaili who both won a Students’ Choice Top Teacher Award each this year. These were announced by our Acting Dean, Prof Gerard Rowe...