Shaun Hendy Frsnz

Shaun Hendy FRSNZ is Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence hosted by the University of Auckland. Shaun teaches in both the Department of Physics and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland.

Shaun worked as a scientist at Industrial Research Ltd from 1998-2013, and at Callaghan Innovation as an Industry and Outreach Fellow in 2013. He also lectured at Victoria University of Wellington from 2003-2013 and was Deputy Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology from 2008-2012. In 2012, Shaun was awarded the Callaghan Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize for his work as a science communicator. In 2013 he was awarded the E. O. Tuck medal for his research in applied mathematics, and co-authored Get Off the Grass with the late Sir Paul Callaghan. His most recent book, Silencing Science, was released in May 2016.