Prof. Jadranka Travas-Sejdic (UOA)

Professor

Professor of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland
Expert in Conducting Polymers, Bioelectronics, and Advanced Polymeric Materials

About Jadranka Travas-Sejdic

Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic is a researcher and academic at the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland, where she serves as the Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She holds a BSc and MSc from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work is dedicated to advancing the field of polymeric materials, with a focus on applications in health, sustainability, and technology.

Research Focus

Her research focuses on the design and development of advanced materials for a range of applications, including:

Conducting polymers and graphene for biosensing and bioelectronics.
Electrically and environmentally responsive polymers for actuators and tissue engineering.
Nanostructured conducting polymers and nanoparticles for biomedical applications.
Development of novel fabrication and characterization tools for micro- and nano-scale polymeric structures.
Academic Contributions

She has made significant contributions to the field of materials science, recognized through numerous awards and honors, including:

2022: University of Auckland Research Excellence Award.
2019: Hector Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
2018: Shorland Medal by the New Zealand Association of Scientists.
2011: Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
2009: Easterfield Medal from the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry/Royal Society of Chemistry UK.
She also serves on editorial boards for leading journals, including:

Macromolecules (ACS)
Synthetic Metals (Elsevier)
ACS Applied Polymer Materials (ACS-APM)
Materials Advances (RSC)
Journal of Materials Chemistry C (RSC)