Professor Shaun Cameron Hendy
PhD
Biography
I am Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence focussed on the study of complex systems and networks.
I grew up in Palmerston North in New Zealand and received my Bachelors degrees from Massey University. I studied for my PhD at the University of Alberta in Canada from 1994-98.
After my PhD I was awarded a New Zealand Science and Technology Post-doctoral Fellowship, which I took up at Industrial Research Ltd in Wellington. I stayed at Industrial Research until 2013, although I took on a joint appointment at Victoria University of Wellington as senior lecturer in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences from 2003, and as a professor from 2010.
I served as Deputy Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology from 2008-2012 and as President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists from 2011-2013.
I have won a number of awards, including the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize and ANZIAM's E. O. Tuck Medal. In 2012 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. I am currently a professor of physics here at the University of Auckland.
Research | Current
Research areas
- Condensed matter physics
- Computational materials science
- Nanotechnology
- The physics of complex systems
- Innovation and economics
Research summary
My group is interested in the theoretical description and modelling of nanostructures at the atomic scale.
Since nanostructures are highly complex and contain from 100 to 100 billion atoms, we need to use either mathematical models or computer simulation methods, and frequently both, to understand and model them.
In general, nanostructures behave quite differently to their macroscale counterparts due to surface, quantum and finite-size effects. We study the interplay between these effects in nanoparticles, nanowires, ultrathin films, nanostructured glasses and nanofluidic flows, with a particular focus on applications of these systems to nanotechnology.
My other interests include the physics of complex systems, innovation and economics.
Distinctions/Honours
2014 Finalist for 2014 Best Columnist BUSINESS & TRADE, Magazine Publishers Association Awards
2013 E. O. Tuck Medal for Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM)
2012 Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize
2012 Callaghan Medal (Royal Society of New Zealand)
2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
2010 Research Medal (New Zealand Association of Scientists)
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Safaei, S., Archereau, A. Y. M., Hendy, S. C., & Willmott, G. R. (2019). Molecular dynamics simulations of Janus nanoparticles in a fluid flow. Soft matter, 15 (33), 6742-6752. 10.1039/c9sm00694j
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Sina Safaei, Geoff Willmott - Ridings, K. M., Aldershof, T. S., & Hendy, S. C. (2019). Surface melting and breakup of metal nanowires: Theory and molecular dynamics simulation. The Journal of chemical physics, 150 (9)10.1063/1.5086435
- Hendy, S. (2019). #NoFly Walking the Talk on Climate Change. Bridget Williams Books. Pages: 136. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/49009 - Aref, S., Friggens, D., & Hendy, S. (2018). Analysing scientific collaborations of New Zealand institutions using scopus bibliometric data. Proceedings of the ACSW: Australasian Computer Science Week 2018, 1-10. New York, USA: The Association for Computing Machinery. 10.1145/3167918.3167920
- Smith, A. F. W., Mahelona, K., & Hendy, S. C. (2018). Rolling and slipping of droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 98 (3)10.1103/PhysRevE.98.033113
- Sakhaee, N., Wilson, M. C., Hendy, S. C., & Zakeri, G. (2017). Network analysis of New Zealand legislation. New Zealand Law Journal (9).
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/38425 - Harvey, M., & Hendy S Nonlocality [series] [Performance art, video, installation] Physicsroom Contemporary Art Space, Christchurch, New Zealand. 17/3/2017 - 8/12/2017
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mark Harvey - Hendy, S. (2016). Silencing science. Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books. Pages: 128. 10.7810/9780947492847
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/36289
Contact details
- +64 9 923 9936
- +64.9.923.9936
- shaun.hendy@auckland.ac.nz
- shen387@aucklanduni.ac.nz
- Media Contact
Primary office location
SCIENCE CENTRE 303 - Bldg 303
Level 6, Room 629
38 PRINCES ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand
