Last month, courtesy of a scholarship from MESA to cover registration, I was fortunate enough to attend the Science Media Centre’s SAVVY workshop in Auckland. Twelve researchers, including myself, participated in the two-day long media skills workshop, and initially I have to say I felt a bit out of my depth when meeting my [...]
Do Emerging Scientists have a Future in New Zealand? The New Zealand Association of Scientists is hosting a one-day conference at Rutherford House in Wellington, on 16 April. The conference will focus on early career scientists.
The conference is targeted at emerging scientists, their existing and potential employers, future emerging scientists, policy makers and [...]
MESA is pleased to announce our first experimental physics workshop at long last! It’s at Victoria University of Wellington in
Laby 201 and starts at 5:30pm on Wednesday the 14th December.
This workshop will be run by new committee member, Alex Barker, and will involve a simple build followed by a discussion about [...]
Energy Light Ltd / Flare Lighting Ltd, 1/44 Curries Road, Woolston, Christchurch is a company run by two very capable entrepreneurial people Ralph Booth & Nelson Duder. This $6 / $7 million company employing around 15 achieved number 3 in the Deloitte Fast 50 for 2010 year, with an average growth rate of 1081% over [...]
New PhD position in Electrospinning of Biopolymers, please see the following PDF file: UC Doctoral candidate position 2011 4th Nov
Dear MacDiarmid Students and Postdocs,
A new and exciting initiative is being planned by the MacDiarmid Institute: a business development program offering "MacDiarmid Research Commercialization Fellowships". This will be a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable entrepreneurship and commercialization experience, complementing your technical skills. To register your interest, please fill out the following form: http://goo.gl/UtHjo Essentially, [...]
Position: 2 year post-doc position at the Department of Physics, University of Bologna, Italy
Field(s): experimental characterization of opto-electronic properties, organic semiconductors, electronic transport, photophysical properties, Starting date: any time between November 2011 and March 2012 Contact: Dr.Beatrice Fraboni E-mail: beatrice.fraboni@unibo.it Phone: +39 051 2095806 Address: Dr.Beatrice Fraboni, Dipartimento di Fisica, [...]
An opportunity exists for an Electron Microscopy Technician to work in the Otago Centre for Electron Microscopy at the University of Otago. The appointee will principally support scanning electron microscopy, and be responsible for developing correlative light and transmission electron microscopy techniques for use by researchers.
The ideal applicant will have an enthusiasm for electron microscopy with experience in either scanning electron microscopy [...]
An opening is available in the group of Prof. Jean-Philippe Ansermet, for a postdoc to run experiments on the SQUID magnetometer and the transport measurement setup, using homemade and other magnetic nanostructures. Knowledge in magnetic resonance, various aspects of spintronics is a plus.
For more information, please visit the group’s web page at http://lpmn.epfl.ch
(Ecole Polytechnique [...]
New Zealand’s MSI undergraduate internships programme for R&D is starting up, which is very exciting. See a short summary below, and click here for more information.
Coming soon: MSI undergraduate internships programme
Businesses wanting to hire an undergraduate student over the summer months can apply for funding from next week. Start thinking now about [...]
Upcoming Events
Inkscape Workshop
This workshop is from students for students; we won't have any lecturer or tutor present. That's a great environment because 2-3 students will team up and work together on each others graphics to enhance them instantly by combining each others brainpowers!
You will need to have a little bit of Inkscape experience to participate in this workshop actively. As an advanced user, you are most welcome to share your tricks, and get inspired by other people's ideas!
Thursday 11th July 2013, 4.30-6.00 pm. Location: AM103, VUW (Wellington)
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MESA and the MacDiarmid Institute would like to invite you to connect to our official LinkedIn group, host to all of the Institute's members and alumni. These include many of New Zealand's leading researchers in nanotechnology and materials science, plus alumni pursuing careers abroad. Join us to network with current and former MacDiarmid researchers!MacDiarmid Research Commercialization Fellowships
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