Keith Gordon
University of Otago

Biography
Keith Gordon is a Professor of Physical ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He graduated from the Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland) in 1989 and focused on laser spectroscopy of solar energy compounds. He was awarded a Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA, and worked with Professor W H Woodruff from 1989 – 1992 on ultrafast laser spectroscopy of biological systems and solar energy materials. In 1993 Keith took up a lecturing post in the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Department at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, becoming Professor in 2009 in that department and serving as Head from 2018 – 2022. Keith is a founding Principal Investigator in two New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence, the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology and the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies. Keith is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº and the New Zealand Institute of ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº. Keith’s research interests focus on understanding the properties of conducting polymers, nanostructured electromaterials, such as those found in dye-sensitised solar cells, dairy products and pharmaceuticals using spectroscopy and computational chemistry.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, PCCP (Physical ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Chemical Physics)
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