Research Professors
NMIT Research Professors
Research Professors help identify suitable journals or dissemination channels and offer practical advice on writing academic papers and navigating the peer-review process.
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Dr Kirsten Coppell Research Professor
Associate Professor Kirsten Coppell is a specialist in public health medicine and has also trained and practised as a General Practitioner (GP) in New Zealand and the UK.
During her public health medicine training, Kirsten became involved in diabetes quality-of-care improvement initiatives. She has undertaken diabetes and diabetes-related research at Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research since its establishment in 2003.
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Dr Ellen Cieraad Research Professor
As a quantitative ecologist, Ellen contributes to a range of research projects in New Zealand and around the world that focus on the impacts of human activities on biodiversity, including the effects of climate change, pesticide use, and light pollution.
She studies how to minimise the effects of human impacts on species interactions and the services that nature provides to people (such as pollination).
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Dr Eric Buenz Research Professor
Dr Eric Buenz is an expert in natural products, immunology, neurology, drug discovery and business development.
He completed his Doctorate in Biomedical Science at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, his Master of Business Administration at the University of St. Thomas, and his Master of Agriculture at the University of the South Pacific in Samoa.
