Prof. Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
Jadranka Travas-Sejdic is a Professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland. She is co-Director of the Centre for Innovative Materials for Health at The University of Auckland and a Principal Investigator of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Her research interests are in the areas of biosensors and organic electronic materials for bioelectronics.
Professor Travas-Sejdic has authored over 330 publications, including 11 book and encyclopaedia chapters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (2017), a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (2009), she received Early Career Research Excellence Award (2005), Easterfield Medal (2006), Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize for Chemical Sciences (2017), Shorland Medal (2018) and Hector Medal (2019). She has been a Councillor of the Pacific Polymer Federation since 2009.