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Associate Director
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Professor Metson, the Centre's Associate Director also holds the position as Head of Chemistry Department.
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Professor Jim Metson BSc(Hons), PhD, FNZIC, MRSNZ,MTMS
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Professor Metson completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1980. After a period as a staff Scientist at Surface Science Western, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, he moved to The University of Auckland late in 1985. He has since held positions as Director of the Research Centre for Surface and Materials Science, Acting Director of the Light Metals Research Centre. In addition, he held the position of Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) for the University between 2000 and 2002 and has been appointed to Head the Department of Chemistry from February 2006.
His research work, largely based in surface and materials science, has involved extensive contact with the aluminium industry, including in the development of a new dry-scrubbing technology and studies of cell emissions, electrolyte chemistry and electrode reactivity. He has presented many papers at the TMS Light Metals Conference and was a Light Metals award winner in 1994. He was also winner of the New Zealand 1995 Shell Prize for Industrial Chemistry.
He has presented more than 20 plenary or keynote lectures, has over 130 research publications and seventy technical reports, many dealing with applications in the aluminium industry.
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Associate Professor Margaret M Hyland PhD, MRSNZ, MTMS
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Margaret Hyland graduated with a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada in 1989, and is currently a Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. She has been active in aluminium reduction technology research for more than 15 years, working with major international aluminium producres and suppliers.
Her areas of interest are in environmental emissions and capture; chemical and mechanical properties of cathode and anode materials and development of new materials. She has presented numerous papers at the TMS Annula Conference and is the winner of 4 TMS Awards in Carbon and Reduction Technology in 2004, 2001 and 1997. Associate Professor Hyland has published over 60 papers and over 80 technical reports. She is also winner of the 2003 Distinguished Lecturer Award, for the Faculty of Engineering.
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