{"id":4,"date":"2017-11-21T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T00:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:58:08","slug":"professor-sally-brooker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sally Brooker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Distinguished and Mellor Professor Sally Brooker MNZM, FRSNZ, FRSC
\n<\/strong>Inaugural Sesquicentennial Professor and Mellor Professor at Otago University<\/span>
\nPrincipal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute<\/span> for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
\n<\/em>Co-leader (with Dr Paul Jerabek, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon) of the German-New Zealand Green Hydrogen networking alliance<\/span> (across research and industry).<\/em><\/p>\n

E-mail:<\/strong> sbrooker@chemistry.otago.ac.nz
\nPhone:<\/strong> 64-3-479-7919
\nFax:\u00a0<\/strong>64-3-479-7906
\nPostal address:<\/strong> Department of Chemistry<\/a>, University of Otago<\/a>, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
\nStreet address for deliveries:<\/strong>
\nChemistry Department Store, 70 Union Place West, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand<\/p>\n

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My research interests are in designer functional transition metal and macrocyclic complexes<\/strong>, with a particular current focus on employing them as catalysts for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction, both homogeneous and heterogeneous (covalent and non-covalent deposition).<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am open to joining EU Horizons<\/strong> research teams – please note that NZ has joined<\/strong> so we can be full members<\/strong> of bids now – in green hydrogen<\/strong> (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; <\/strong>and in applications of spin crossover.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interested in doing a PhD or postdoc? Research Opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n

Excellent domestic and international applicants for PhD study <\/strong>are welcome at any time (please provide your CV, academic transcripts, pdfs of papers, English language test if appropriate)<\/em>
\n(NB. OU PhD scholarship applications assessed quarterly; all candidates treated as domestic)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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International distribution of Brooker’s Bunch PhD students and postdocs as well as our 46 collaborators, as of 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

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On the Clocktower stairs (April 2025<\/strong>), 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5291,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}