Profile
- Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland
- Director, Polymer Biointerface Centre
- Principal Investigator, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
- Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic FRSNZ has been awarded the Hector Medal for her outstanding contribution to the field of advanced polymers and nanomaterials and their application in biosensors, biomedicine, and bioelectronics by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
- BSc, MSc (Zagreb, Croatia), PhD (Auckland, New Zealand)
Research Interests
My research interests are in the field of advanced polymeric materials:
- 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
- Chem 110 – Chemistry of the Living world
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
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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