Jervee Punzalan has been awarded the NZNIRSS Student Award for the 20th ANISG/NZNIRSS Conference in Christchurch, taking place from April 8th to 11th, 2024. The award acknowledges Jervee‘s work for the near-infrared spectroscopy research and provides NZD 500 towards conference expenses. This will allow her to engage with experts, present research findings, and network with peers ..read more

Peter Remoto talking about his experiences at Uni and in research.  Worth watching to  the end; very interesting talk. Great chat! Episode 107 – When a passion turns to a PhD (youtube.com ..read more

    Keith gave an invited talk at the recent Australia New Zealand Ultrafast meeting in Sydney.  He talked about “The creation of long-lived excited states through design: a computational and time-resolved experimental study”   ..read more

Link:  Synthetic inorganic chemistry and Spectroscopy of inorganic systems | University of Otago (squiz.cloud) PhD positions in Chemistry, University of Otago, New Zealand Two positions in synthetic inorganic chemistry and one in spectroscopy of inorganic systems Title Hydrogen generation with sustainable resources – a combined molecular, computational and engineering approach Supervisors Professor James Crowley and Professor Keith Gordon Description Hydrogen is an important fuel source and commodity chemical used in a wide range of industrial processes. Unfortunately ..read more

Prof Han Young Woo from Korea University in Seoul visited on Monday January 29 to discuss joint research on solar cell polymers.  After an interesting discussion on the resonance Raman spectra and calculations Prof Woo enjoyed the good weather before heading off to a meeting in Wellington ..read more

Keisuke Takabayshi is a Ph.D. student at Yamaguchi Lab, Akita University, Japan, and will stay in our lab for a month from January 19th.  Keisuke’s main interest is how crystal structure is changed and the matter is broken down using ultrashort laser pulses. He  evaluates the crystal structure of laser-processed materials processed by homemade ultrashort pulsed lasers. Currently, he has performed measurements after processing, but in the future he would like to make time-resolved measurements. He is here to learn about the time-resolved experiments. Sam and Keisuke at the beach   ..read more

Welcome to Elkhansa (Hansa) Elbashier to the group. She is originally from Sudan and  got her master’s and bachelor’s degree from Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. She began my PhD studies in October 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Ketih Gordon. Hansa will be analysing the electronic properties and behaviours of artificial dyes using spectroscopic, electrochemical and Density functional theory techniques ..read more

Peter Remoto returns to the group as a PhD student after successfully completing a 6-month internship with DEC Healthcare’s R&D team from 1st May to 1st November. This internship was organised by Dodd-Walls and funded by Callaghan Innovation. Peter’s role was to explore Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to reliably monitor formulation accuracy during the Hot Melt Extrusion process ..read more

Jervee Punzalan participated in the 7th International Conference on Food Structures, Digestion, and Health in Queenstown from November 14th to 17th, 2023.   She presented her poster on the use of Pulsed Electric Field and Non-Destructive Characterization Analysis with MicroNIR Spectroscopy.  With reference to the poster, she also showcased a 90-second video and received recognition as one of the finalists.   ..read more

Congratulations to Samanali, Sara and Keith on their publication in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.  This work done in collaboration with Botany (Otago) and Plant and Food was able to show that Raman spectroscopy could measure chill-damaged fruit using calibration from one season to correctly classify a subsequent seasons harvest. Samanali, G. A. P.,Burritt, D. J., Burdon, J. N., Kerr, C., Fraser‐Miller, S. J.,& Gordon, K. C. (2023). Identification and classification of chill‐damaged versus sound kiwifruit using Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics. Journal of Rama ..read more