Dr Nicola Gaston - The Chemistry of Things

Dr Nicola Gaston is the new co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Gaston was a senior lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at VUW. She was previously a principal research scientist at the former Industrial Research Ltd (IRL), where she was based since returning to New Zealand in 2007 from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.