The Speakers
Dr Diandree Padayachee (Applications Specialist: Food and Consumer Products, Syft Technologies, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Diandree has a strong research background, having worked at two prominent research institutes in South Africa, where she carried out investigations in the fields of Extractive Metallurgy and Gold Catalysis. She then went on to complete her PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2014, before joining Syft later that year. Since joining Syft, Diandree has specialized in application development for food, consumer, environmental, and material emission applications.
Dr Vaughan Langford (Director of Applications and Marketing, Syft Technologies, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Vaughan joined Syft in 2002 after completing his PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and post-doctoral fellowships at the Universities of Geneva, Western Australia, and Canterbury. With an extensive background in diverse applications of SIFT-MS (including 17 peer-reviewed publications and numerous conference papers), he now spearheads Syft’s global marketing efforts.
