Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a professor at the
University of Auckland
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Academic career
After an undergraduate at the
University of Zagreb
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in
Croatia
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and a
PhD
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titled '' 'Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on
acrylamide
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monomers' '' at the
University of Auckland
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, Travaš-Sejdić joined the staff, rising to full professor.
Travaš-Sejdić is co-founder of spin-out
Spot Check.
Honours and awards
In 2017, Travaš-Sejdić was elected as a
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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. The
New Zealand Association of Scientists
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awarded Travaš-Sejdić the
Shorland Medal in 2018, and in 2019, she was awarded the
Hector Medal by the
Royal Society of New Zealand
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Croatian New Zealanders
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Living people
New Zealand women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Auckland alumni
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
21st-century New Zealand women scientists
New Zealand materials scientists
Croatian chemists
Croatian emigrants to New Zealand
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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