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Ngā Ahurei Hou a Te Apārangi New Fellows 2024

Booklet introducing the new Ngā Ahurei Fellows of Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Rod Badcock FRSNZ: Superconductivity: engineering 'cool' science for prosperity and low emissions
  • Superconductivity can transform global energy production, use and transformation...

Richard Boast FRSNZ: Legal records, environmental sciences and archaeological research

Specialists...
  • Specialists in environmental sciences and archaeology may be unaware of the wealth of information available in archival collections...

Neil Boister FRSNZ: Transnational criminal law in the new world (dis)order

Transnational criminal ...
  • Transnational criminal law is based on treaties like the UN Drug Conventions...

Elissa Cameron FRSNZ: Causes and consequences of individual variation in mammalian behaviour

  • Individual animals behave differently which has profound impacts on life history characteristics...

David Chapman FRSNZ: rom green to lean: challenges for New Zealand pasture science

Grazed pasture...
  • Grazed pastures are the key competitive advantage underpinning half of New Zealand’s total income from goods exports...

Charles Clifton FRSNZ: Building a legacy: from concrete to steel

This is, briefly, my story of how...
  • This is, briefly, my story of how a country lad from Southern Hawke’s Bay, well-taught in reinforced concrete design at the University of Canterbury in the 1970s, cam...

Stephane Coen FRSNZ: The unlikely alliance of solitary waves, white light, and combs

Solitary wave...
  • Solitary waves, once a curiosity, are now finding application in the generation of white light and so-called optical frequency combs in a new generation of microscopic ...

Leo Condron FRSNZ: Role of chronosequence studies in advancing understanding of soil phosphorus biogeochemistry
  • Phosphorus is key to determining ecosystem productivity, and phosphorus-use efficiency in managed environments is very low...

Helen Danesh-Meyer FRSNZ: An eye on the brain: adding insight to injury

Advancing technology enabl...
  • Advancing technology enables ocular biomarkers to assess brain function and disease...

Renwick Dobson FRSNZ: Nano-machines, membranes and microfluidics

It is an exciting time to be a bi...
  • It is an exciting time to be a biochemist! Recent advancements in structural biology and biophysics allow us to ask new questions about how nature works at the molecula...

Sue Huang FRSNZ: SHIVERS: science and impact

This presentation will describe SHIVERS (Southern Hem...
  • This presentation will describe SHIVERS (Southern Hemisphere Influenza and Vaccine Effectiveness Research and Surveillance) surveillance platforms as NZ’s national in...

Merata Kawharu FRSNZ: Kaitiakitanga, Te Tiriti and technology: tools for resilient futures

This ta...
  • This talk reflects on how kaitiakitanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi shape responses to today’s environmental and social challenges...

John Kennedy FRSNZ: From atoms to energy: how Rutherford's discovery advances energy technology
  • Ernest Rutherford’s groundbreaking atomic discoveries reshaped modern science, laying the foundation for advanced energy technologies...

Susan Marshall FRSNZ: It’s not waste: new processing technologies for seafood co-products
  • 50-60% of fin-fish biomass is not fillet and is routinely converted to fishmeal and fertiliser despite being full of nutritionally and structurally useful molecules...

Stuart McNaughton FRSNZ: Potential impacts of educational sciences?

Educational sciences can contr...
  • Educational sciences can contribute to the quality of national systems...

Snejina Michailova FRSNZ: Multinational corporations: what about their local employees?

Multinatio...
  • Multinational corporations worldwide possess massive financial wealth and corporate power...

Nicole Moreham FRSNZ: Privacy, common law and societal change

The development of privacy torts in ...
  • The development of privacy torts in New Zealand and England and Wales reveals a lot about how the common law can both effect and respond to societal change...

Katie Pickles FRSNZ: The hand that rocked the cradle ruled the settler colonial past?

If we want t...
  • If we want to understand the construction of the settler colonial past it is essential to include the work of women as agents of empire and makers of the nation...

Michael Plank FRSNZ: Mathematical modelling: from pests to pandemics

Mathematical modelling is a p...
  • Mathematical modelling is a powerful tool in many areas of science...

Nicholas Rowe FRSNZ: Accelerating cultural transformation for climate change

Over the next twenty ...
  • Over the next twenty years, climate change will accelerate mass forced migration around the globe, presenting challenges for belonging and democracy...

Yvette Tinsley FRSNZ: Hurling the little streets upon the great? Improving participants’ experience of the criminal justice process
  • The criminal justice process is a hurried churn, but full of delays. It relies on discretion while championing formality...

Geoffrey Waterhouse FRSNZ: Catalysing the decarbonisation of the global energy sector

Decarbonisin...
  • Decarbonising the global energy sector is the greatest single challenge facing humanity in the 21st century...

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