Scientist Profiles

POSTER: Where can science take you? | Deep-sea Fish Collector Dr Thom Linley

NZASE

August 3, 2026

What does it take to explore one of the least-known places on Earth? Meet Dr...

Into the abyss with deep-sea tinkerer and fish zoologist Dr Thom Linley

Ceana Priest

August 3, 2026

In the food-starved abyss, being a bit dim can be a remarkably effective survival strategy:...

The evolving role of the science technician | Raewyn Keene, Lab Manager

NZASE

July 21, 2026

How much has the school science laboratory changed over the past three decades? From handwritten...

In defence of the humble science fair | Amanda Hood

NZASE

June 16, 2026

Science fairs can provoke mixed feelings among teachers. They offer students the chance to follow...

NZ Scholarship Biology | Dr Alison Campbell on helping students prepare

Ceana Priest

June 2, 2026

For more than two decades, University of Waikato Honorary Fellow Dr Alison Campbell has been...

From Snell’s Law to Science Rap: Teaching science through music

Ceana Priest

May 18, 2026

To celebrate New Zealand Music Month, we chat to two educators bringing tunes into the...

From gumboots to global trade: Why Agribusiness needs science-savvy students

Ceana Priest

March 24, 2026

Agribusiness is shedding its reputation as simply a pathway into farming. Today, students are combining...

Weaving Mātauranga Māori into the classroom | Kaupapa Māori educator Koha Kahui-McConnell

NZASE

March 10, 2026

At Auckland Zoo, Conservation Learning Facilitator and kaupapa Māori educator Koha Kahui-McConnell supports students to...

From London to Aotearoa: How Science in a Van began

Ceana Priest

February 24, 2026

Science lives in the everyday — yet sometimes it gets delivered by folks in yellow...

Physical Oceanographer | Ollie Twigge

Heather Goodey

September 7, 2025

Science technician might not be a job you hear much about at career evenings, but...

Wildfire scientist | Grant Pearce

Ceana Priest

June 17, 2025

Before a wildfire even begins, the ground might already be giving off warning signs. Science...

Science artist | Gabby O’Connor

Ceana Priest

May 28, 2025

Helping students make sense of big ideas is more important than ever in today’s classrooms....

Marine biologist | Jacqui Stuart

Heather Goodey

May 3, 2025

Marine biologist and ecologist Jacqui Stuart of the Antarctic Research Centre studies microalgae in Antarctica....

Zooplankton Ecologist | Svenja Halfter

Heather Goodey

April 2, 2025

Dr Svenja Halfter is a pākeha zooplankton ecologist with the National Institute of Water and...

Environmentalist | Stephanie Dijkstra

Sneha Pillai

October 29, 2024

Stephanie is a Māori environmental scientist specialising in intergenerational outcomes and the interweaving of mātauranga...

Conservation Biologist | John Perrott

Sneha Pillai

September 27, 2024

A mātauranga Scientist/communicator and Associate Professor/Research Ecologist at the AUT School of Science, specialising in...

Micrometeorologist | Christian Stiegler

Sneha Pillai

August 23, 2024

A Greenhouse Gas Emissions Scientist with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA),...

Astrophysicist | Jan Eldridge

Sneha Pillai

June 30, 2024

Jan Eldridge is a pākehā astrophysicist and the Head of Physics Department at the University...

Volcanologist | Kate Mauriohooho

Sneha Pillai

May 20, 2024

Kate Mauriohooho is a volcanologist who studies supereruptions and large silicic caldera systems.

Physicist | Ocean Mercier (Māori scientist poster)

Sneha Pillai

March 29, 2024

Physicist Ocean Mercier studies the basic properties and laws about solids and liquids, and uses...