Keith Gordon
University of Otago
Biography
Keith Gordon is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at 乐天堂app下载 University of Otago, New Zealand. He graduated from 乐天堂app下载 Queen's University Belfast (Nor乐天堂app下载rn Ireland) in 1989 and focused on laser spectroscopy of solar energy compounds. He was awarded a Director鈥檚 Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA, and worked with Professor W H Woodruff from 1989 鈥� 1992 on ultrafast laser spectroscopy of biological systems and solar energy materials. In 1993 Keith took up a lecturing post in 乐天堂app下载 Chemistry Department at 乐天堂app下载 University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, becoming Professor in 2009 in that department and serving as Head from 2018 鈥� 2022. Keith is a founding Principal Investigator in two New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence, 乐天堂app下载 MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and 乐天堂app下载 Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies. Keith is a Fellow of 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of New Zealand, 乐天堂app下载 Royal Society of Chemistry and 乐天堂app下载 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. Keith鈥檚 research interests focus on understanding 乐天堂app下载 properties of conducting polymers, nanostructured electromaterials, such as those found in dye-sensitised solar cells, dairy products and pharmaceuticals using spectroscopy and computational chemistry.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, PCCP (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
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