Cather Simpson

Cather Simpson
Residence New Zealand
Alma mater University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Scientific career
Institutions University of Auckland, Case Western Reserve University, MacDiarmid Institute
Thesis

Miriam Cather Simpson (formerly Schneebeck) is a New Zealand-American physics/chemistry academic. She is current a professor at the University of Auckland, a joint appointment between the physics and chemistry departments.[1] She is also associated with the Dodd-Walls CoRE and the MacDiarmid Institute.[2]

Career

Simpson did a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Virginia, followed by a Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine entitled 'Functional dynamics in metalloporphyrin systems.' After making tenure at Case Western Reserve University,[3] she moved to the University of Auckland to set up her own lab, the 'Photon Factory'.[2][4] Her work involves ultra-fast pulsed lasers and studying their effects on materials.

Sperm sorting

Simpson set up a spin-off company, Engender Technologies, which uses microfluidic and photonic technology in sex-sorting of cattle sperm.[5][6][7][8]

Selected works

  • Jentzen, W., M. C. Simpson, J. D. Hobbs, X. Song, T. Ema, N. Y. Nelson, C. J. Medforth et al. "Ruffling in a Series of Nickel (II) meso-Tetrasubstituted Porphyrins as a Model for the Conserved Ruffling of the Heme of Cytochromes c." Journal of the American Chemical Society 117, no. 45 (1995): 11085-11097.
  • Drain, Charles Michael, Steve Gentemann, James A. Roberts, Nora Y. Nelson, Craig J. Medforth, Songling Jia, M. Cather Simpson et al. "Picosecond to microsecond photodynamics of a nonplanar nickel porphyrin: solvent dielectric and temperature effects." Journal of the American Chemical Society 120, no. 15 (1998): 3781–3791.
  • Shah, Shashin, M. Cather Simpson, Rhett C. Smith, and John D. Protasiewicz. "Three Different Fates for Phosphinidenes Generated by Photocleavage of Phospha-Wittig Reagents ArP PMe3." Journal of the American Chemical Society 123, no. 28 (2001): 6925–6926.
  • Shreve, Andrew P., Stefan Franzen, M. Cather Simpson, and R. Brian Dyer. "Dependence of NO recombination dynamics in horse myoglobin on solution glycerol content." The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103, no. 37 (1999): 7969–7975.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Cather Simpson – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  2. 1 2 "Associate Professor Cather Simpson – MacDiarmid Institute". Macdiarmid.ac.nz. 2016-05-14. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  3. ↑ "CV : Cather Simpson". Case.edu. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Photon Factory – The University of Auckland". Photonfactory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  5. ↑ "Associate Professor Cather Simpson – University of Auckland – a New Zealand Research Commercialisation Success Stories". Kiwinet.org.nz. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  6. ↑ "Auckland company boasts cutting edge cattle breeding technology". Stuff.co.nz. 2016-05-20. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  7. ↑ Saturday Morning (2016-05-21). "Cather Simpson: photonics and sperm". Radionz.co.nz. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
  8. ↑ "Auckland scientist wins KiwiNet supreme award for sperm-sorting technology | The National Business Review". Nbr.co.nz. 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2017-12-13.
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