Ken Mackenzie

Biography

Professor Ken MacKenzie is a specialist in the development and structural investigation of a wide range of inorganic materials, including ceramics, glasses, cements and inorganic polymers. He has worked in this field for 50 years, has published more than 350 papers in international journals and is sought after as a plenary speaker at international conferences. He received his PhD in high-temperature mineral chemistry from Victoria University of Wellington in 1967 and his D.Sc in 1976. He has been the recipient of numerous medals and awards, including the Easterfield Medal of the NZ Institute of Chemistry, the Hector Medal of the Royal Society of NZ, the Shorland Medal of the NZ Association of Scientists, the Royal Society Medal for Science and Technology and the ICI Medal of the NZ Institute of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, an academecian of the World Academy of Ceramics and has held a James Cook Research Fellowship at Oxford University

Research Interest

Advanced inorganic materials, solid state chemistry, solid-state NMR spectroscopy Development and structure of novel advanced inorganic materials for applications as catalysts, engineering and structural ceramics, electroceramics, bioceramics and ecologically-friendly materials for remediation of pollution. Investigation of these materials by X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, electron microscopy, Mossbauer spectroscopy and solid-state NMR. His principal area of research for the last 14 years has been in the development and study of new inorganic polymers for environmental protection applications and other novel applications. He is expert in a number of experimental techniques, but particularly solid-state multinuclear magnetic resonance, about which he has written an authorative textbook.