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Meet the researchers: Jens Dietrich

Bugging out

Mangopare (Hammerhead shark): uniting traditional Māori knowledge with modern science

The image of Mangopare (Hammerhead shark) found throughout the SfTI site is from a design by Tyler Dixon (Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāi Tahu).
It symbolises the strength in duality to be found in combining traditional Māori knowledge and modern western science.

Meet the researchers - Janet Stephenson

At the flick of a switch

Meet the researchers - Neil Dodgson

Augmenting reality to the horizon and back

Meet the researchers - John Cater

Origami in the sky

Meet the researchers: Alan Yu Shyang Tan

Speaking for the trees

Meet the researchers - Stephen Marsland

Who's in our forests?

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Meet the researchers: Julie Choisne

One step at a time

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Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) is one of New Zealand's 11 National Science Challenges. Our mission is to enhance New Zealand’s capacity to use physical sciences and engineering for economic growth. We do this by bringing together community of about 300 of New Zealand‘s most talented physical science and engineering researchers, with Māori and industry, to develop new technologies relevant to New Zealand.

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Vision mātauranga guides researchers on how to integrate western science with mātauranga Māori (knowledge) to explore new opportunities to build a prosperous, technology-driven economy.
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New Zealand has a small, vibrant hi-tech processing and manufacturing sector. This theme aims to advance the sector's reputation as a leader in smart, green, manufacturing processes and materials.
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This theme aims to develop innovative models, methods, tools and practices for new or enhanced business processes, hardware components, systems and software applications.
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