Waikato Centre for Advanced Materials (WaiCAM)

WaiCAM Director:  

• Professor Deliang Zhang
  Materials processing, light alloys and metal-ceramic composites and nanocomposites, casting technology, powder metallurgy, mechanical milling/alloying

• Dr Michael Mucalo
  Biomaterials, cooloids (nanoparticles), electrochemistry, calcium phosphate precipitation chemistry
• Professor Thomas Neitzert
  Materials procesisng, plastic materials
• Professor Brian Nicholson
  Materials chemistry, synthesis of organometallic precursors for deposition processes
• Associate Professor Kim Pickering
  Fracture mechanics and interfacial engineering, materials processing, polymer based composites and natural fibre based composites, plastic materials.
• Professor Janis Swan
  Food materials, biochemical engineering

• Dr Tony Cartner
  Materials chemistry, materials characterisation
• Dr Conan Fee
  Biomaterials, biochemical engineering
• Associate Professor Brian Gabbitas
  Materials processing, metallic materials, wood fibre based materials
• Dr Rainer Künnemeyer
  Non-destructive evaluation of various materials, optical technology
• Associate Professor Alan Langdon
  Materials chemistry, porous materials
• Dr Zhiguang Liu
  Materials processing, metallic materials, mechanical milling/alloying, metal matrix composites
• Associate Professor Alfred Sneyd
  Applications of magnetic fields in metallurgy, mathematic modelling of materials processing
• Dr Michael Walmsley
  Chemical Engineering, materials processing