Profile
- Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland
- Director, Polymer Biointerface Centre
- Principal Investigator, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- BSc, MSc (Zagreb, Croatia), PhD (Auckland, New Zealand)
Research Interests
- Conducting polymers and graphene in biosensing and bioelectronics
- Electrically and environmentally responsive polymers and surfaces for actuators and tissue engineering
- Nanostructured conducting polymers and nanoparticles for biomedical applications
- Developing of novel fabrication and characterisation tools for micro- and nano- scale polymeric structures
Current Teaching
- Chem 750/751 – Special Topics, “Introduction to nanoscience: special case on biosensors” and “Polymer Electronics”
- Chem 380 – Advanced Materials Chemistry
Awards and Honours
- 2022 The University of Auckland Research Excellence Award
- 2019- Hector Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand
- 2018 – Shorland Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists
- 2011 – Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- 2009 – Easterfield Medal from the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry/Royal Society of Chemistry UK
- 2009 – Councillor of the Pacific Polymer Federation 2009 Fellow of the New Zealand
- 2009 – International Advisory Board for Chemistry – An Asian journal
- 2009 – Guest Editor – International Journal of Nanotechnology
- 2008 – Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Nanotechnology
- 2005 – Early Career Research Excellence Award, The University of Auckland
- 1997-1998 – Australian Institute for Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) Post-Graduate Research Award
- 1994 – Scholarship for Research Activity from Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
Editorial Boards
- 2022 – Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules (ACS)
- 2021- Advisory Board, Synthetic Metals (Elsevier)
- 2021 – Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Polymer Materials (ACS-APM)
- 2020 -Advisory Board, Materials Advances (RSC)
- 2020 – Advisory Board, Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC)
- 2020 Committee awarding Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC) Lectureship
- 2019 – 2022 International Advisory Board, International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, 2020, Glasgow
- 2019 – 2021 Editorial Advisory Board of the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (ACS)
- 2018 – Editorial Advisory Board of the European Polymer Journal (Elsevier)
- 2015 – Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Wiley)
- 2014 Guest co-editor of Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals (13th ICFPAM)
- 2013 Guest Editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology, special double issue on the 6th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- 2010 – 2018 International Advisory Board for Chemistry – An Asian Journal
Previous Appointments
- 1999 – Nov 2001: Pacific Lithium Limited, Auckland – Scientist and senior project manager
- 1999: Genesis Research and Development Corporation Limited – Scientist
- 1995 – 1998: University of Auckland – Assistant Lecturer in Materials Chemistry