Auckland scientist and HRC Māori Health Research PhD recipient, Dr Chris Rodley, travelled a long way to pick up his PhD at the first of six Massey University graduation ceremonies in Takapuna this month.
The young molecular biologist flew from Europe, where he works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Geneva doing cancer cell research. He was one of 12 scientists to receive doctoral degrees at Tuesday morning’s ceremony for the College of Sciences, and among 32 students to graduate with doctoral degrees from the Albany campus this year.
Since finishing his doctorate at the end of last year he has been living in a tiny village in the French Alps with this French conservation biologist fiancée, and commuting one hour by bus daily across the border to Switzerland to the University of Geneva’s Department of Cellular Biology. He is the only English speaker among a team of 12 international researchers. The team is investigating the behaviour of cervical cancer cells to better understand the disease mechanisms.
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