Rate My Professor Karen Rowley

Karen Rowley serves as the Team Leader of the Teaching Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Otago. Her contact details are listed on the official University of Otago Chemistry Department Dunedin contact page, including direct dial phone +64 3 556 5258 and email karen@chemistry.otago.ac.nz. She is based in the Science II Building on the Dunedin campus. In the University staff directory, she is listed as Team Leader - Sciences.

Karen Rowley is acknowledged in multiple academic outputs from the Department of Chemistry for her technical support. For instance, in the 2021 PhD thesis by F. Kousar titled 'Modification of Stainless Steel by Grafting of Poly(ethylene glycol) Methacrylate', she and Ian Billinghurst are thanked as lab technicians for being helpful and permitting the use of various equipment. In the 2022 PhD thesis by Sandleen Feroz, Karen Rowley is thanked for assisting with FTIR analysis. Similar thanks appear in M. Anwar's 2021 publications 'New freeze-thaw method for improved extraction of water-soluble polysaccharides from Akkermansia muciniphila' and 'Utilization of ultrasound and pulse electric field for the extraction of pectin from apple pomace', where she provided FTIR spectroscopic analysis from the Department of Chemistry. Additionally, in S.C. Faville et al.'s 2022 paper 'Development of Benzoxazole Amide Derivatives against Leishmania Parasite', undergraduate laboratory technicians including Karen Rowley are thanked. These acknowledgments highlight her role in supporting both teaching and research activities within the department.