MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (often simply called the MacDiarmid Institute) is a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) specialising in materials science and nanotechnology. It is hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, and is a collaboration between five universities and two Crown Research Institutes.

Background

Alan MacDiarmid 2005

The Institute is named after Alan MacDiarmid, a New Zealander who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000. It is funded by the New Zealand government through the Tertiary Education Commission.

The Institute divides its work into four research areas:[1]

  • Towards Zero Waste - Reconfigurable Systems
  • Towards Zero Carbon - Catalytic Architectures
  • Towards Low Energy Tech - Hardware for Future Computing
  • Sustainable resource use - Mātauranga Māori Research Programme

Awards

From 2004 to 2007, the MacDiarmid Institute sponsored the annual Young Scientist of the Year awards for up-and-coming scientists and researchers in New Zealand, organised by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.[2][3] These awards replaced the FiRST Scholarship Awards, and have subsequently been replaced by the Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.[2][4][5][6]

Young Scientist of the Year
Year Winner Research area Notes
2004 unknown
2005 Jessica North environmental contamination from leaky landfills [3]
2006 Claire French cell identification technology [7]
2007 Jessie Jacobsen Huntington's disease [7]
2008 unknown

Directors

Name Term Notes
1 Paul Callaghan 2002–2008 [8]
2 Richard Blaikie 2008–2011 [9]
3 Kathryn McGrath 2011–2015 [10]
4 Thomas Nann 2015–2018 [11]
5 Nicola Gaston / Justin Hodgkiss 2018– [12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology". 29 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Exciting New Awards Announced". Scoop News. 12 March 2004. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Top Young Scientists Named at Awards Ceremony". Scoop News. 22 June 2005. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  4. ^ "The Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2010 | The Prime Minister's Science Prizes". Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Ngā toa i mua Previous winners | The Prime Minister's Science Prizes". Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  6. ^ MacDiarmid Young Scientists of the Year Awards Newsletter (PDF). New Zealand. October 2009.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ a b "Entries Open for Prestigious Science Awards". Scoop News. 19 November 2007. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  8. ^ "University deeply saddened by death of Paul Callaghan". Scoop. 24 March 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  9. ^ "UC professor new head of MacDiarmid Institute". Scoop. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  10. ^ "Young professor appointed as new Director for VUW's MacDiarmid Institute". Scoop. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  11. ^ "New Director for the MacDiarmid Institute". MacDiarmid Institute. 25 June 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Nicola Gaston on taking the wheel at the MacDiarmid Institute". The Spinoff. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

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