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About Us

Our Story

Chiasma is a national New Zealand organization that creates links between academia and the wider science, technology and engineering (STEM) industries.

Our History

Chiasma was launched in September 2004 by Priv Bradoo, Swati Sharma and Daniel Sun, three PhD students in the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. Since then, Chiasma has grown into a thriving organisation, with branches in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin and boasts over 3500 student and industry members. Each centre runs their own flavour of networking events, workshops, panel discussions, mentorship programmes and site visits tailored towards the local students and industry.

Development

Connections

We bridge the gap between STEM students, academia and business

Entrepreneurship

We foster entrepreneurship and innovation in young scientists

How we work?

Chiasma is a registered charity with four regional centres which are supported by a National Team.

National Team

Chiasma’s National team connects our centres and administers – the legal and financial side of the organisation. Our National Team takes the lead on Industry, Alumni, Marketing, Content and Systems providing resources and guidance to our regional centres. We typically recruit for our National team at the start of each year.

Keep up to date with our National Team and Chiasma news by following our Linkedin.

We’re always to exciting to hear from the Chiasma community, drop us an email [email protected].

Bridget Lamont

Bridget Lamont

National General Manager
Stephanie Waller

Stephanie Waller

National Executive Secretary
Caitlin Davison

Caitlin Davison

Regional Operations Manager
Salma Ibrahim

Salma Ibrahim

National Industry Manager
Mahdieh Abedian

Mahdieh Abedian

National Alumni Manager
Palak Shrivastava

Palak Shrivastava

National Marketing Manager
Darrell Smith

Darrell Smith

National Systems Manager