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 her 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Congratulations to Sara and Keith on their publication in Food Chemistry.  The work was led by Alaa El-Din A. Bekhit (Food Science, Otago).  The study showed that the effect of diet on the structure and composition of rat brains is quite modest, with spectroscopy unable to detect any discernible changes.   Yutong Gao, Alan Carne, […]

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. […]

Working with medics and dentists, Sara Miller, Karlis Berzins and Keith Gordon contributed to a paper on vitamin D and tooth health.  The spectroscopy was able to show a very slight changes between healthy and deficient teeth. Beckett DM, Vaz Viegas S, Broadbent JM, Wheeler BJ, Bērziņš, K, Fraser-Miller, S.J., Gordon, K.C,Drummond, BK, Mahoney, EK, Loch, […]

Amir Sohail and Keith Gordon attended the recent AUCAOS (Australasian Community for Advanced Organic Semiconductors) meeting in Tweed Heads NSW, Australia. Amir presented some of his donor acceptor work in a poster and Keith gave a talk on elongating excited state lifetimes.  

Congratulations to Sara Miller for winning an Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research. Currently a Senior Research Fellow, Dr Miller’s research in vibrational spectroscopy coupled with multivariate analysis has applications to a wide variety of materials and complex systems including pharmaceutics, hard and soft tissues, and primary produce.  A more recent focus of research has […]