Professor Richard Blaikie
Positions
- Professor
- Director, MacDiarmid Institute (www.macdiarmid.ac.nz)
Qualifications
BSc(Hons)(Otago), PhD(Camb.), MIEEE, MInstP, CPhys, MRSNZ
Room
Electrical A509
Contact Details
Ph: +64 (3) 3642-987 ext:7043
Fax: +64 (3) 3642-761
richard.blaikie@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address
Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
Background
1984 – 1987 B.Sc. (Hons), First Class, in physics, Otago University, 1987.
1988 – 1992 Ph.D. in physics, Cambridge University, 1992.
1992 – 1993 Visiting Scientist (Single Electron Memory), Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1994 – 1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Optical Communications), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Canterbury.
1995 – 1998 Lecturer (Microelectronics and Nanofabrication), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
1999 – 2003 Senior Lecturer (Microelectronics and Nanofabrication), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
2003-2004 Associate Professor (Microelectronics and Nanofabrication), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
1988 Rutherford Memorial Scholarship of the Royal Society.
2001 TK Sidey Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Member of the Institute of Physics.
Since 1994 competitive grants awarded total more than NZ$2.6m.
Founding member of the Nanostructure Engineering, Science and Technology research group at the University of Canterbury.
More than 70 refereed papers in international journals or refereed conference proceedings.
2006 - Present Professor (Microelectronics and Nanofabrication), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Canterbury.
Undergraduate Courses 2011
Postgraduate research available
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Postgraduate Students
- Mohammad Bari, PhD
- Laura Domigan, PhD (co-supervised with Professor Juliet Gerrard, Biological Sciences)
- John Foulkes, PhD (Submitted)
- Ciaran Moore, PhD
- Mikkel Scholer, PhD
- Prateek Mehrotra, PhD
- Zhi (Nick) Wang, ME