COVD-19 update: essential ESR public health, environment, food safety, and forensic science services continue.
If you are an existing ESR customer, please get in touch with the ESR staff member you're usually in contact with for specific updates.
Find out more about ESR's role in supporting the Aotearoa COVID-19 response here | View the NZ COVID-19 Dashboard here
Read about our forensic expertise and how we help keep communities safe.
Learn about our water quality and environmental science work.
Read out ESR's COVID-19 response across the public health spectrum
Find out about our work in preventing and reducing disease.
Read about ESR’s expertise in food, pharmaceuticals and other product testing.
Read about how our science expertise is utilised around the world.
Learn how our social scientists are helping to solve complex problems.
ESR’s genomic science encompasses microbial, human, meta and forensic genomics, transcriptomics and epigen omics.
ESR is a Crown Research Institute that provides science services and research capability across a number of science disciplines. Find out more about our expertise.
Find references to the published work of ESR scientists across our science disciplines.
Read about how our research is helping to solve problems that our clients face
Some of our current research projects
Supported by a dedicated Research Office, our research scientists are leaders in their field and utilise their applied science knowledge to their research programmes. Read about some of our research.
Find out about the senior leaders of our organisation.
Read about the scientists and other fantastic people that make up ESR!
An introduction to the people that make up ESR's Board of Directors.
Our people are the backbone of our organisation. Read about our leaders, scientists and our Board.
Heidi Baker is a Senior Forensic Scientist at ESR. She is one of our DNA specialists and is based at the Mt Albert Science Centre in Auckland, but has also spent time on our 'front line' in the crime scene forensic group at our Christchurch laboratory.
To find out more about Heidi's day-to-day work, watch the video below.
ESR - Meet Heidi Baker
