Prof. Justin Hodgkiss
Victoria University of Wellington
Justin Hodgkiss is Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute, a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, and Chief Scientist of ultrafast laser instrumentation company, Advemto. His research group develops and applies ultrafast optical spectroscopy methods to resolve light induced processes in nature and in new materials.
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- DateAugust 21, 2022The natural black-brown pigment eumelanin protects humans from high energy photons by absorbing and rapidly dissipating their energy before proteins and DNA are damaged…
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Victoria University of Wellington - DateAugust 25, 2022Ultraviolet (UV) radiation that reaches the Earth's surface is a major cause of the many hazardous effects on humans’ skin. Those effects include erythema, photo-aging, and photoinduced DNA breakage, leading to mutations, responsible for tumour formation…
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