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- Animal health and welfare
- Climate change and natural disasters
- Construction
- Consumer technology
- Engineering
- Environmental science
- Evolution and genetics
- Food-borne pathogens
- Food technology
- Horticulture and agriculture systems
- Mathematics
- Pandemics, epidemics and COVID-19
- Plastic pollution
- Technology
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Zoology, ecology, molecular biosciences
Animal health and welfare
![Professor Ngaio Beausoleil](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/profile_050616_FB19DD.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Ngaio Beausoleil
- Systematic scientific evaluation of animal welfare
- Conservation Welfare: Welfare impacts associated with wildlife conservation activities
- Breathlessness in animals
- Humane and Gaseous methods of euthanasia
- Humane vertebrate pest control
- Developmental processes, modulation and alleviation of pain in farm animals
- Novel methods for evaluating pain in farm animals
![Associate Professor Rene Corner-Thomas](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/profile_036497_173A67.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Associate Professor Rene Corner-Thomas
- Sheep production and management
- Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes
- Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
- Improving reproductive performance Reproduction
- Lambs and lamb growth, Lamb survival
- Ewe and lamb behaviour, Farmer learning
![Professor Carolyn Gates](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Gates-Carolyn-2023-00.41563ac3.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Carolyn Gates
- Monitoring animal health for trends indicating emerging farm and industry level disease
- Evaluating potential for disease spread among farms
- Modelling impact of national animal health programmes on disease transmission and farm profitability
- Understanding farmers' decisions to participate in herd health improvement schemes
- Developing software to connect academia and industry
![Professor Jon Huxley](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Jon-Huxley.493f4b30.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Jon Huxley
- Dairy cow health and welfare
- Lameness and the key endemic diseases of dairy cattle
- Impact of production and the housed environment on cattle health and welfare
![Professor Paul Kenyon](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/half_body.87738a52.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Paul Kenyon
- Sheep production and management
- Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes (twins and triplets)
- Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
- Use of alternative herbages
- Improving reproductive performance
- Farmer learning
![Professor John Munday](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/John-Munday.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor John Munday
- Veterinary pathology
- Cancer in animals
- Causes of cancer and ways to predict the behaviour of cancer in animals
Climate change and natural disasters
![Professor Chris Anderson](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/D9_8kHHYJb.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Chris Anderson
BSc(Hons), PhD
Doctoral Mentor Supervisor
![Professor Bruce Glavovic](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Glavovic-Bruce.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Bruce Glavovic
- Climate change resilience
- Mitigation issues
- IPCC report
![Professor Jonathan Procter](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Procter-Jonathan-2020.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Jonathan Procter
- Volcanology
- Volcanic hazards
- Computational modelling
- Geomorphology
- Emergency management
- Māori environmental participation
- Māori natural resource management
- Treaty of Waitangi historical research
Construction
![Dr Mikael Boulic](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Mikael-Boulic.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Mikael Boulic
- Sustainable building
- Environmental issues in buildings
- Sustainable environment
- Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
- Energy saving
![Professor Regan Potongaroa](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Regan-Potongaroa.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Regan Potongaroa
- Humanitarian
- Resilience
- Sustainability
- Māoritanga
- Virtual Reality
- 3D Scanning
![Professor Monty Sutrisna](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Professor_Monty_Sutri.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Monty Sutrisna
- Construction and Engineering Management
- Construction Productivity
- Construction Procurement and Contracts
- Construction IT and Advanced Technologies applied in Construction
- Construction Project Management
- Decision Making Modelling/Support
- Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence
![Professor Suzanne Wilkinson](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Wilkinson-Susanne-202.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Suzanne Wilkinson
- Climate change and adaptation
- Disaster management, recovery and reconstruction
- Construction industry procurement, innovation and productivity
- Resilience building
- Smart cities
- Construction law
Consumer technology
![Professor Hans Guesgen](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Hans-Guesgen.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Hans Guesgen
- Artificial intelligence
- Smart environments
- Internet
- Health informatics
- Expert systems
- Decision support systems
- Knowledge representation
- Spatio-temporal reasoning
- Constraint satisfaction
![Associate Professor Anuradha Mathrani](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Anuradha-Mathrani.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Associate Professor Anuradha Mathrani
- IT specialist.
- Technology enhanced learning
- Agile software development
Engineering
![Professor Don Cleland](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Don_Cleland.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Don Cleland
- Industrial refrigeration
- Heat pumping
- Energy efficiency
- Food processing
- Sustainability
![Professor Gourab Sen Gupta](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/SenGupta_IdBzKf0.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Gourab Sen Gupta
- Embedded Systems
- Sensor applications
- Robotics
Environmental science
![Professor Chris Anderson](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/D9_8kHHYJb.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Chris Anderson
BSc(Hons), PhD
Doctoral Mentor Supervisor
![Associate Professor Lucy Burkitt](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/20230630_093608.1ca0031a.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Associate Professor Lucy Burkitt
- Nutrient management
- Phosphorus runoff
- Water quality
- Nutrient mitigations
- Freshwater farm planning
![Dr Nick Kim](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Nick-Kim.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Nick Kim
Analytical and environmental chemistry in areas including:
- Human and environmental health risk assessment
- Soil, air and water quality
- Environmental monitoring
- Natural resource management
- Applied toxicology
- Management of contaminated sites and chemical emergencies, guideline development, and aspects of forensic chemistry
![Professor Diane Pearson](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Diane-Pearson.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Diane Pearson
- Sustainable landscape management
- Environmental management
![Associate Professor Ranvir Singh](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/ranvir-singh.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Associate Professor Ranvir Singh
- Freshwater
- Farm plans
- Interaction of soil and run offs
- Stream and river preservation
Associate Professor Carol Stewart
- Environmental chemistry,
- Climate change and natural disasters.
- Volcanic hazards
- Air and water quality
Evolution and genetics
![Dr Gillian Gibb](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Gillian-Gibb.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
![Dr Daniel Thomas](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Daniel-Thomas.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Food-borne pathogens
![Professor Steve Flint](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Steve-Flint.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Steve Flint
Food Technology Group Lead
- Food microbiology
- Dairy technology
- Rapid microbiologial methods, biofilms
- Molecular techniques for food analysis
- Bacterial spores
- Thermophilic bacteria
- Foodborne pathogens (especially listeria) food processing
- Traceback analysis for pathogen contamination
![Professor Nigel French](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/profile_038912_1A9A85.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Nigel French
- Molecular epidemiology
- Genomic epidemiology
- Pathogen genomics
- Food safety
- Risk assessment and the control of infectious diseases
![Dr Jon Palmer](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Jon-Palmer.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Jon Palmer
- Food Safety and Food Microbiology
- Industrial and Medical Biofilms
- Mycotoxins and Food Processing methods
- Thermal processing
Food technology
![Professor Andrew East](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/profile_036007_646B39.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Andrew East
- Postharvest physiological responses of fruit to storage conditions
- Creation of predictive models for postharvest fruit behaviour
- Shelf-life extensions of novel crops
- Development of new packaging materials for fruit storage and transport
- Mass and heat transfer in controlled temperature transport
- Development of novel sensing techniques to assess food properties
![Professor Matt Golding](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Matt-Golding.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Matt Golding
- Dairy, emulsions and ice cream
![Professor Joanne Hort](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Joanne.0634d61b.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Joanne Hort
- Sensory Science
- Consumer Sensory Science
- Individual variation in sensory perception
- Impact of context on sensory perception
- Taste and texture processing
- Loss of sense of smell
- Emotional response
Nikki Middleditch
- Food pilot general manager
- Manufacturing and commercialisation
![Dr Jon Palmer](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Jon-Palmer.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Jon Palmer
- Food Safety and Food Microbiology
- Industrial and Medical Biofilms
- Mycotoxins and Food Processing methods
- Thermal processing
Horticulture and agriculture systems
![Professor Danny Donaghy](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Danny-Donaghy.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Danny Donaghy
- Pasture agronomy and physiology
- Grazing management
- Dairy farm systems
- International dairy development
![Professor Paul Kenyon](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/half_body.87738a52.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Paul Kenyon
- Sheep production and management
- Managing multiple bearing and rearing ewes (twins and triplets)
- Hogget (ewe lamb) breeding
- Use of alternative herbages
- Improving reproductive performance
- Farmer learning
![Dr Janet Reid](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Janet_Reid.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Janet Reid
- Governance and governing of New Zealand agriculture in particular sustainable agriculture
- Farmers knowledge cultures and the influence of this on farmers practice
- The role of regional councils and central government in shaping on-farm decisions by farmers
- Agricultural extension and consultancy as a form of governing
- Systems innovation in the primary sectors
Mathematics
![Professor Mark Bebbington](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/GNS_1404.6818b3bc.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Mark Bebbington
- Statistical models for earthquake interaction.
- Inference and computational methods for stochastic processes.
- Reliability and survival analysis, particularly in complex systems.
- Statistical quality control and acceptance sampling methods.
- Stochastic operations research, including simulation and statistical analysis
![Associate Professor Tammy Lynch](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/TammyLynch.6e6d904f.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Associate Professor Tammy Lynch
- Mathematic modelling
- Computational Sciences
![Dr Teo Susnjak](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Teo-Susnjak.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Teo Susnjak
- AI and ChatGPT
- Machine learning
- Data science related matters
Pandemics, epidemics and COVID-19
![Professor David Hayman](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/David_Hayman.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor David Hayman
- Disease ecology
- Epidemiology
- Molecular epidemiology
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Zoonoses
- Public Health
- Wildlife conservation
![Professor Joanne Hort](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Joanne.0634d61b.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Joanne Hort
- Sensory Science
- Consumer Sensory Science
- Individual variation in sensory perception
- Impact of context on sensory perception
- Taste and texture processing
- Loss of sense of smell
- Emotional response
![Professor Mark Waterland](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Mark-Waterland.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Mark Waterland
Chemistry Group Lead
- Testing for Covid-19
- Chemistry
Plastic pollution
![Adjunct Professor Trisia Farrelly](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Farrelly-Trisia-2019-.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Adjunct Professor Trisia Farrelly
- Community-based development
- Protected area management
- Conservation
- Indigenous Fijian epistemologies and methodologies
- Development
- Indigenous Fijian micropolitics
- Governance and entrepreneurship
- Socio-cultural analyses of waste minimisation
- Informal economies
- Collective memory work
- Pacific islands waste management
Technology
![Dr Rachel Blagojevic](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Rachel-Blagojevic.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Rachel Blagojevic
- Computer programming
- Human computer interaction
![Dr Daniel Playne](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Daniel-Playne.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Daniel Playne
- Gaming and programming
- Computer simulation
- Software
Treaty of Waitangi
![Dr Peter Meihana](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Peter-Meihana.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Dr Peter Meihana
- Maori history
- Tribal history and colonisation
- Māori privilege
Zoology, ecology, molecular biosciences
![Professor Murray Potter](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Murray-Potter.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)
Professor Murray Potter
Ecology, Conservation and Zoology Group Lead
- Zoology of penguins
- Sealions
- Antarctic animals
- Birds
![Dr Daniel Thomas](https://d2ub1k1pknil0e.cloudfront.net/media/images/Daniel-Thomas.2e16d0ba.fill-150x150.format-webp.webp)