Kim Louise Pickering
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsScott Medal
Scientific career
FieldsComposite material
InstitutionsUniversity of Waikato

Kim Louise Pickering is a New Zealand composite materials engineer. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.[1]

Academic career

After a BSc(ENG) at Imperial College London, three years at Plessey Research Caswell and a PhD at the University of Surrey, Pickering started working at the University of Waikato in 1994 and rose to full professor in 2014.[2]

Much of Pickering's research involves 3D printing[3] of "recyclable, biodegradable and bio-derived composite materials"[4][5] and she has been a major proponent of recycling.[6]

In 2017 she won the RJ Scott Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand.[7][8] Also in 2017, Pickering was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[9]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Kim Pickering – Faculty of Science and Engineering : University of Waikato". sci.waikato.ac.nz.
  2. ^ "New professor for Science and Engineering". www.waikato.ac.nz. 30 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Waikato University researchers push the boundaries of 3D printing". Stuff. 7 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Eco-friendly materials ready to replace everything, Waikato University professor says". Stuff. 13 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Kim Pickering – Curious Minds, He Hihiri i te Mahara". 7 November 2017.
  6. ^ Pickering, Kim. "The future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good".
  7. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – 2017 Scott Medal: Developing sustainable materials with natural products such as harakeke and hemp". royalsociety.org.nz.
  8. ^ "Creating sustainable manufacturing materials". 26 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Kim Pickering". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 11 May 2021.

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