Project details
Full project descriptions for summer 2024/25 are available here.
Summer research assistants programme
Spend your summer vacation working with us. Our summer research assistants experience working in a team environment and solve real world problems.
As a summer research assistant with Paihau—Robinson Research Institute you will work alongside some of the top research scientists and engineers in Aotearoa, and contribute to a range of cutting-edge research projects that involve the development of new concepts in materials and manufacturing.
Who can apply
We take students who are currently studying at New Zealand tertiary institutes and universities.
Research assistant positions are open to undergraduate students (usually before their final year) and run from November to February. Generally students are based on site with us at the Gracefield Innovation Quarter in Lower Hutt or our Petone premises.
Project titles
Our projects and supervisors available during summer 2024/25:
- Advanced materials for quantum technologies
Supervisor: William Holmes-Hewitt - Flux pumps switching electronics and control
Supervisor: Grant Lumsden - High-temperature fibre sensing for plasma rockets
Supervisor: Ben Mallett - Hybrid flux pumps
Supervisor: Ben Mallett - Real-time cryogenic measurement of x-ray radiation damage to superconductors
Supervisor: Bart Ludbrook
How to apply
If you are a highly talented applied science or engineering student, we’d like to hear from you.
To apply you will need your CV and a cover letter detailing your motivation for study, your career aspirations, and why you would like to work with us.
Applications for 2024/25 places are now closed but you can email your interest for next year's round.
A comment from a summer research assistant
I really enjoyed my time working in a professional environment. There was a lot of autonomy, but there was always someone around with the expertise I needed.