Dame Juliet Gerrard
Juliet is a biochemistry academic, a professor at the University of Auckland, and the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. Juliet has held the position of Chief Science Advisor since July 2018. Her vision for the role centres around four qualities: rigour, inclusivity, transparency and accessibility. She aims to create a trusted bridge between science, society and government. Her academic research is in protein biochemistry, investigating protein-protein interactions and applied research in the food industry. |
Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains
Malvindar is a neuroscientist working at the University of Auckland. Her research centers around neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease and Alzheimer's. She is also the co-chair of the Huntington's Disease Youth Organisation of New Zealand. She was nominated for New Zealander of the Year in 2019 due to her work in education around these diseases. |
Dr Susan Ellis
Susan is a Principal Scientist at GNS Science, and works as a geodynamic modeller. She completed her Bachelors and Masters in New Zealand, before moving to Canada for her PhD in geological oceanography. Currently, she works on research to do with earthquakes in New Zealand, and specialises in various forms of geophysics. |
Dr Amy Martin
Amy is a PhD graduate at the University of Auckland's faculty of biological science, where she studied Ecological Evolution. She won NZ’s only place in the 2019 L’Oreal Women in Science mentoring program. Overall, she is interested in Zoology, Behavioural Ecology, Evolution, Natural History, Computer Programming and Mathematical Modelling. |
Dr Shelley Langton-Myers
Shelley is a Behavioural Ecologist at Ecoquest. She has worked in South Carolina, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow researching beetle diversity in the Southern Appalachians. Her professional interests include entomology, terrestrial ecology and biogeography, while she also has strong personal interests in conservation and the environment. |
Professor Abby Smith
Abby is the Professor in Marine Sciences at the University of Otago, and the Chief Course Advisor for the Department of Marine Science. She is also the fourth-year coordinator and Director of the Oceanography programme. Her research relates to the formation of marine skeletons and shells, and their deposition on the seafloor as sediment. |
Professor JJ Eldridge
JJ is a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Auckland, where she explores how to make computer models of stars more realistic by comparing them to many different observations of living and dead stars. |
Hannah Mello
Hannah is a Marine Conservation Biologist. She is currently completing her PhD in the department of Marine Science at the University of Otago. She is studying Bryozoans, microscopic aquatic invertebrates that live in colonies. |
Professor Christina Hulbe
Christina is an Antarctic researcher, studying and teaching polar glaciology, Antarctic science, and spatial analysis. She is a Professor and Dean of Surveying at the University of Otago, and was previously Chair of the Geology Department at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. |
Dr Lorna Strachan
Lorna is a Senior Lecturer of Sedimentology whose research focuses on understanding the way in which sediment moves and is deposited in the deep ocean. She is a prominent researcher in the fields of turbidity currents and soft-sediment deformation, where her publications are highly cited. |
Dr Carolina Loch
Carolina is a Senior Lecturer in Oral Biology in the Department of Oral Sciences at the University of Otago. Carolina completed a BSc in Biological Sciences and MSc in Zoology in Brazil prior to moving to New Zealand for her PhD in Palaeontology/Oral Biology. Her research is focused on evolutionary oral biology and comparative dental morphology – in other words, using teeth to elucidate the evolution, biology, and lifestyle of living and fossil mammals, including humans. |
Dr Chelsea Vickers
Chelsea is a researcher in the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria, University of Wellington. Her research is based around microbes, a type of microorganism. She has done a lot of research around microbes in Antarctica. She did her Bachelors, Masters and PhD in New Zealand, at the University of Waikato, before going overseas to Canada. She later returned to New Zealand to take up her current position. |
Emily Campbell
Emily works at Massey University/GNS Science joint centre for disaster research. She completed a Bachelor of Design Degree with Honours from Massey University. Within this degree,sheI majored in Visual Communication which explored producing and delivering visual content that engages audiences and drives recognition. She works in the field of emergency management, around disaster risk reduction to enable effective communication pathways to policy and practice for people and communities. |
Professor Patria Hume
Professor Patria Hume is a leading expert in sport injury prevention and sports performance biomechanics, injury epidemiology and kinanthropometry. She is Professor of Human Performance in the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Sport Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ). Prior to her career as an academic, Professor Hume was a world-class rhythmic gymnast. After representing New Zealand for six years, including at two World Championships, she spent six years coaching gymnasts for Olympic, Commonwealth Game and World Championship competitions. |
Erin Stroud
Erin is a PhD student working in conjoint between the University of Auckland and Plant and Food Research. She had a slightly unusual pathway into science, after originally starting off in a health sciences degree, before moving into science. Her path to a PhD included an internship and working full-time in a commercial microbiology laboratory. Her PhD research focuses on how plants defend themselves against biotic attack. |
Emma Bodley
Emma did a Master of Science (MSc) on greenhood orchids, and now works at the Auckland Botanic Gardens as a Botanical Records and Conservation Specialist. She collects native plant seeds for New Zealand’s seed bank (a collection of seeds that acts as a safeguard in the event of a disaster resulting in the loss of a native plant species). |
Katerina Achilleos
Katerina is a Marine Benthic Ecologist, currently completing a PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research mainly focuses on the systematics, biodiversity, growth and calcification in bryozoans (marine colonial invertebrates). |
Dr Rebecca Zitoun
Rebecca currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at NIOZ in the field of Trace Metal Biogeochemistry, Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry. She investigates the principles and processes underlying trace metal speciation, cycling, transport, reactivity and toxicity in aquatic systems in an effort to advance current understanding and to refine aquatic biogeochemical models. |
Dr Mele Taumoepeau
Mele obtained her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Otago in 2006. Her research interests include: preschoolers’ socio-emotional development, the role of parent-child conversations about mental states in preschooler’s children’s social understanding, and cross-cultural differences in parent-child conversations about the mind and child language development. |
Dr Michele Bannister
Michele is a planetary astronomer and science communicator at the University of Canterbury, where she specialises in the discovery and exploration of small worlds in the Solar System and beyond. She has surveyed the outermost Solar System for trans-Neptunian planets, and has an asteroid named after her. |
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