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.
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]
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 [2] [3] These awards replaced the FiRST Scholarship Awards, and have subsequently been replaced by the Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.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]
| 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 |
| 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] |
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