Jenny Malmström

Biography

Jenny Malmström joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering in 2016. She received her MSc degree in Bioengineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2004) and a Ph.D. in Nanoscience at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (2010). From Denmark she moved to Auckland, where she joined the School of Chemical Sciences (UoA) as a post-doctoral research fellow. Her research is very interdisciplinary and focusses on the interface where biological molecules or cells meet novel materials. Her expertise lies in characterising and understanding the material-biomolecule interactions and the influence of surface properties that underpin cell adhesion onto substrates.  This detailed understanding can be applied to emerging and exciting areas such as the creation of smart materials to help understand or control cellular behaviour, or to create ordered functional patterns of biomolecules. Recent work in connection to the functional nanostructures theme has been focussed on using block copolymers to template and order multimeric ring-shaped proteins. These ordered protein stacks can be used to template for example optically or magnetically active entities

Research Interest

Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology