Associate ProfessorCarlo Carere

Associate Head of Department

Chemical and Process Engineering

  • Associate Head of Department
    Chemical and Process Engineering
  • Associate Professor
    Chemical and Process Engineering

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Optimising Growth of Extremophilic Microalgae for Sustainable Food Production
    1 Jul 2026
    Simó, Alejandro Fernández
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Designing and Evaluating 3D Printed Gyroid Structures as Packing Materials for Methane Biofiltration
    15 Feb 2026
    Poore, Cerys
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Extraction and characterisation of phycocyanin from extremophilic algae
    15 Feb 2026
    Escott, Hayley
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating 3D-printed Cyclonic Separation for Harvesting Extremophilic Algae
    15 Feb 2026
    Thackery, Horatio
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Turbidostatic process control of bacterial growth
    15 Feb 2026
    MacFarlane, Sahara
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Improving Phycocyanin Production from Waste-Derived Feedstocks
    1 Aug 2025
    Lindsay, Hamish
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Isolation, Characterisation, and Determination of the True Thermal Limits of Acidithiobacillus Species from the Taupō Volcanic Zone
    27 Feb 2025 - 27 Feb 2026
    Dhanapala, Dinendra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Enhancing Biogas Production from Anaerobic Digestion using Bio- Electrochemical Systems
    15 Feb 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
    Haliburton, Suzanna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Validating ATP Assays for Growth Measurement in Challenging Microbial Environments
    15 Feb 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
    Fowler, Claudia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating Quorum Sensing in Methane Biofiltration
    3 Feb 2025
    Shuker, Zoe
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Isolation, Characterisation, and Determination of the True Thermal Limits of Acidithiobacillus Species from the Taupō Volcanic Zone
    1 Jan 2025 - 31 Dec 2026
    Dhanapala, Dinendra
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Materials Chemistry/Geochemistry studies of the feasibility of underground hydrogen storage in New Zealand Aotearoa
    1 Jan 2025
    Zhao, Ziru
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Low-Concentration Methane Sensors Suitable for a Dairy Barn Environment
    1 Mar 2024 - 31 Dec 2025
    Matthew, Suter
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Coal Tar Remediation in the Red Zone
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Bennett, Zethan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Development of Aerosolised Biofilters to Treat Dairy Methane Emissions
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Plotkin, Mya
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigating the impact of antibiotics on the performance of a methane oxidising biofilm
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Broom, Anna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Testing Different Microbial Communities to Optimise Methane Removal in Biofilters
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Patrick, Emelia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Validation of a Differential Sedimentation Model for Estimating the Cellular Composition of a Microalgae -Bacteria Co culture
    19 Feb 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
    Share, Rebekah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Elucidation of the mechanisms differentiating the abundance within and dispersal beyond Aotearoa New Zealand of the endemic bacterial genus Venenivibrio and its globally distributed sister genus Sulfurihydrogenibium.
    1 Oct 2023
    Meghan, Marshall
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identifying the limiting factors of dispersal of Venenivibrio, a locally-abundant thermophilic bacterial genus
    1 Apr 2023
    Welford, Holly
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Harnessing photomethanotrophic metabolism to convert methane to polymers
    1 Mar 2023
    Rodríguez, Jorge Campos
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Investigation on the potential for Thermococcus waiotapuensis for hydrogen production on dairy and brewery organic wastes
    1 Mar 2023 - 31 Dec 2024
    McKay, Connor
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Microbial communities for bioplastic degradation
    1 Mar 2023
    Collins, Briar
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Bromoform production to abate methane emissions using extremophilic red algae
    1 Jan 2023
    Scott, Catie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Comparing growth of extremophilic algae and methanotroph strains using different nitrogen sources
    1 Jan 2023
    Wearne, Cleo