Distinguished and Mellor Professor Sally Brooker MNZM, FRSNZ, FRSC
Inaugural Sesquicentennial Professor and Mellor Professor at Otago University
Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Co-leader (with Dr Paul Jerabek, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon) of the German-New Zealand Green Hydrogen networking alliance (across research and industry).
E-mail: sbrooker@chemistry.otago.ac.nz
Phone: 64-3-479-7919
Fax: 64-3-479-7906
Postal address: Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Street address for deliveries:
Chemistry Department Store, 70 Union Place West, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
My research interests are in designer functional transition metal and macrocyclic complexes, with a particular current focus on employing them as catalysts for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction, both homogeneous and heterogeneous (covalent and non-covalent deposition).
I am open to joining EU Horizons research teams – please note that NZ has joined so we can be full members of bids now – in green hydrogen (especially relating to H2 storage materials and energy storage for resilience and off-grid power, as well as providing options for decarbonising farm heavy vehicles); and in catalyst development for sustainable chemical production; and in applications of spin crossover.
Interested in doing a PhD or postdoc? Research Opportunities
Excellent domestic and international applicants for PhD study are welcome at any time (please provide your CV, academic transcripts, pdfs of papers, English language test if appropriate)
(NB. OU PhD scholarship applications assessed quarterly; all candidates treated as domestic)
International distribution of Brooker’s Bunch PhD students and postdocs as well as our 46 collaborators, as of 2015
On the Clocktower stairs (April 2025), from left: James Theobald (390), Sannath Mathapathi (visiting undergrad, Occidental College USA), Michael Bennington (RA), Kieran DeMonte (PhD), Jayden Heywood (MSc), Jack Broomfield (390), Varinder Singh (PhD), Niklas Plenio (visiting MSc/Diplom researcher, Mainz University, Germany), Sally.
