John V Kennedy

John V Kennedy is a material scientist working on development of novel materials for low carbon energy technologies. He uses ion beam technologies pioneered by Lord Rutherford to develop functional materials and provide key information about material’s structure-property relationship. The knowledge generated is useful across the material science community for design of new products, surface engineering, development of catalytic materials for hydrogen production and storage, thermoelectric materials for converting waste heat to electricity, energy storage materials, magnetic materials and energy efficient systems. He has been a principal investigator on three Marsden funded projects and Science leader for more than 10 MBIE funded research projects. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles and 20 international patent applications with citations exceeding 7000 and a H-index of 52. John’s ability in applying his materials science expertise to industrial projects has led him to be a Principal Investigater in the Product Accelerator, Inductive Power Transfer Programme, Titanium Technologies of New Zealand and The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.