People
Academic staff
Dr Natalie Plank
Natalie is a lecturer in Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. She is also a Principal Investigator of the MacDiarmid Institute.
Natalie completed a BSc (Hons) in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh before doing an MSc in Microelectronics. She then completed her PhD on the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics with Rebecca Cheung also at the University of Edinburgh.
Natalie then spent three years at the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre working with Professor Sir Mark Welland on solid state dye sensitised solar cells.
Group members
PhD students
Hong-Phan T. Nguyen (Jenna)
Jenna is working towards biosensing using CNT FET and neuromorphic devices. Her project will also include the synthesis, fabrication and electrical characterisation of nanowire that can employ with DNA aptamer recognition elements for electronic biosensors.
2018–present: PhD candidate and holder of a MacDiarmid Institute PhD Scholarship.
2014: MSc in Biomedical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
2011: BE in Computing Engineering at HCMC University of Technology and Education, Vietnam
Erica Happe
Erica is working towards the fabrication of CNT FETs for use as biosensors. She will be using conductive atomic force microscopy to characterize conduction in the network and to understand network sensitivity. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Colleen Marlow at California Polytechnic State University, USA.
2018–present: PhD candidate and holder of a MacDiarmid Institute PhD Scholarship.
2014–2018: BS in Physics at California Polytechnic State University
Erica Cassie
Erica is working towards multiplexing the carbon nanotube FET biosensors developed by the group, so that thye may be used to measure multiple different target biomolecules. This work will focus on the microfabrication techniques needed to manufacture such devices.
2019–present: PhD candidate and holder of a Marsden Fund Scholarship. 2018: BE(Hons)/BSc conjoint in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics at the University of Auckland.
Alumni
Postdoctoral fellow
2020: Rifat Ullah
PhD students
2019: Mohsen Maddah
2019: Murugathas Thanihaichelvan (Selvan)
2019: Leo Browning
2017: Conor Burke-Govey
2015: Hanyue (Hannah) Zheng
Masters students
2018: Campbell Matthews
2015: Cameron Wood
Honours students
2019: Ned Treacher
2016: Charlotte Duda
2016: Campbell Matthews
2015: Ryan Moody
2014: Leo Browning
2013: Stanley Roache
2012: Harpreet Singh
Visiting interns
2017: Teerapong (Max) Jantarat
2015: Alexandre Nau, Université de Bordeaux (France)
2013: Ron Hendriks, University of Twente (Netherlands)
Summer students
2020/2021: Isla Day
2020/2021: Hayden Young
2017/2018: Kira Pitman
2014/2015: Charlotte Duda
2013/2014: Hamish Colenso
2012/2013: Benjamin Dunn
2011/2012: Cameron Wood