Margaret Hyland

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Margaret Mary Hyland
FRSNZ
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Born1960
Alma mater University of Western Ontario
Scientific career
Fields Chemistry
Institutions University of Auckland
Thesis

Margaret Mary Hyland FRSNZ is a Canadian-born chemist based in New Zealand whose research focuses on aluminium technology, and the chemistry and engineering of material surfaces. She moved to New Zealand in 1989 and after holding many senior academic leadership roles supporting and developing research at the faculty, university and national level became recognised as an authority on the generation and capture of fluoride emissions from aluminium smelters and for coordinating the team that produced the 'Fluoride Emissions Management Guide' for the aluminium industry. This achievement was acknowledged when she became the first woman to win the Pickering Medal. In 2017, Hyland was seconded to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment in the role of Chief Scientist and has held positions in a variety of other groups supporting the physical sciences and engineering. Since 2018 she has been Vice-Provost, (Research) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Education

Hyland graduated from University of Guelph, Ontario Canada in 1983 with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, and completed her PhD at the University of Western Ontario in 1989. [1] The thesis for her PhD, titled 'X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies Of The Interaction Of Aqueous Metal Complexes With Sulphide Minerals', [2] looked at how "gold and other metals are laid down on minerals surfaces, with implications for capturing heavy metals in the environment, and involved a technique called the chemical surface analysis". [3]

Academic career

When Auckland University acquired its first surface analysis equipment in 1989, Hyland moved to New Zealand and took up a position as a professor at the University of Auckland, Chemical and Materials Engineering and continued in this role until 2018. She was Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research (2010 – 2013), and between 2012 and 2017, Deputy Dean, University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering. [4] In her time at the University of Auckland, Hyland led a range of strategic postgraduate and research projects. [5]

From August 2018 Hyland has been Vice-Provost (Research) at Victoria University of Wellington, and as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, is responsible for developing strategic research objectives that build capability and strengthen understanding of matauranga Maori. [4]

Fluoride emissions management

While at Auckland University, Hyland became the founding principal investigator and associate director of the university's Light Metals Research Centre (LMRC). [6] This allowed consolidation of her research into developing fluoride gas cleaning systems for the aluminium industry, and resulted in findings that were used at the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter for the design of their gas cleaning system, the Torbed Reactor. [7] The research also contributed key information toward the development of the industry guide to minimise fluoride emissions. In 2011, Professor Hyland and her team produced the first comprehensive and practical guide to fluoride emissions management which has allowed smelters worldwide to reduce fluoride emissions. [8] [9] Research for this guide directed by Hyland was acknowledged as having a "profound impact on how environmental mitigation measures and emission control systems are developed and applied to the primary aluminium industry." [10]

Responses to public issues

When a paper by Professor Anne-Marie Brady of the University of Canterbury, presented as a supplementary submission to Parliament's justice select committee in 2020 claimed New Zealand universities had links to Chinese universities and could be assisting technology transfer useful to the Chinese military, Hyland as one of many academic leaders who disputed this, said that "Victoria University had stringent measures to ensure work undertaken by the university's staff and researchers complied with New Zealand's legal and compliance frameworks... where some of our potentially sensitive technology areas are concerned, due diligence informs our decisions to work with partner organisations – this holds true in regard to the Chinese organisations named in the article. She concluded: "There are many universities and organisations based in China, which are conducting high-quality, non-military research and, along with other research institutions, we are working to partner with some of these organisations, with the knowledge that the research will be used in safe and appropriate ways." [11]

In February 2021, when the New Zealand Herald noted the considerably reduced number of PhD students coming from overseas because of border restrictions due to the Government's response to COVID-19, Hyland said that this would have a major impact across the entire university system and that "PhDs are an incredibly important part of our research workforce...[and]... a drop in enrolments would also affect research projects run in collaboration with private bodies and Crown research institutes." [12]

Invited positions and distinctions

Awards and honours

Selected works

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  1. ↑ "Margaret Hyland" (Education and qualifications). orcid. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Hyland, Margaret Mary (1989). "X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Studies Of The Interaction Of Aqueous Metal Complexes With Sulphide Minerals" (Dissertation: Doctor of Philosophy). Digitized Theses. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Margaret Hyland Chemical Materials Engineer" (Part of the series 150 Women in 150 Words that celebrates women's contributions to expanding knowledge in New Zealand). Royal Society of NZ. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. 1 2 Hyland, Margaret. "People". Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 Prof Margaret Hyland (16 April 2020). "About Us - Leadership and Governance". Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Robinson, Lynne (2016). "Margaret Hyland Achieves a First in Aluminum Research" (PDF). The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. doi:10.1007/s11837-015-1783-z. Archived from the original (Article in the JOM magazine) on 16 May 2021. Alt URL
  7. 1 2 "Professor Margaret Hyland" (Article updated 11 July 2018). Science Learning Hub. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Tjahyono, Nursiani; Gao, Yashuang; Wong, David; Zhang, Wei; Taylor, Mark P. (2011). Fluoride Emissions Management Guide (FEMG) for Aluminium Smelters. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48160-9_54. ISBN   978-3-319-48567-6 . Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  9. ↑ Light Metals Research Centre (1 February 2021). Fluoride Emissions Management Guide (PDF). The University of Auckland. Archived from the original (Initially written for all smelters in China) on 16 May 2021. Alt URL
  10. ↑ News (10 November 2015). "2015 Pickering Medal:Reducing emissions from aluminum production". Royal Society. Retrieved 15 May 2021.{{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  11. ↑ Van Beynen, Martin (15 August 2020). "Canterbury Uni orders review into publication by China expert Anne-Marie Brady". stuff. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  12. ↑ Gerritsen, John (25 February 2021). "Foreign PhD students 'lifeblood' of universities' research effort". NZ Herald. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  13. ↑ News (26 February 2017). "Professor Margaret Hyland formally farewelled". National Science Challenges. Retrieved 15 May 2021.{{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  14. ↑ "Prof Margaret Hyland joins Trust Board". Eureka. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  15. ↑ Hyland, Margaret M. "Recipient: 2005 Light Metals Award". TMS. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  16. ↑ Hyland, Margaret; Patterson, Edwin; Welch, Barry (2004). Alumina Structural Hydroxyl as a Continuous Source of HF (Chapter in: Light Metals (2004)). John Wiley & Sons. pp. 936–941. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  17. ↑ Tabereaux, Alton T., ed. (2004). Light metals 2004 : proceedings of the technical sessions presented by the TMS Aluminum Committee at the 133rd TMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 14-18, 2004 (Mixed media product). Warrendale, Pa.: TMS.
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