Nicola Gaston

Nicola Gaston is a Professor at the University of Auckland, former President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, and Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She is a materials scientist who has worked on nanoparticles and low-temperature liquid metals, and who has spoken out on sexism in the scientific research establishment. In 2023 she was awarded the Thomson Medal and in 2024 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.