Eva

Eva Hemmer
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science
University of Ottawa 
10, Marie Curie St.
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada

email: [email protected]
phone: +1 613 562 5800 – ext. 1987
office: DRO 118                 
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Eva Hemmer is an Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD (2008) in materials science from Saarland University (Germany) under the mentorship of Prof. Sanjay Mathur. During her PhD she focused on the synthesis of lanthanide alkoxides and their decomposition to lanthanide-containing inorganic nanomaterials. This experience was further deepened during her postdoctoral studies when she worked on lanthanide-doped nanoparticles for near-infrared bioimaging with Prof. Kohei Soga (Tokyo University of Science, Japan, 2009-2012). In 2013 she was awarded a Feodor Lynen Research Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to work in the groups of Profs. Fiorenzo Vetrone and Francois Légaré at INRS-EMT (Université du Québec, Canada, 2012-2015) to develop nanothermometers based on upconverting nanoparticles. In winter 2016 she came to Ottawa in order to design and study novel multifunctional lanthanide-based nanocarriers for biomedical and energy conversion applications at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences. In February 2024, Eva joined the editorial board of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances as associated editor.

EDUCATION & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
  • University Research Chair in Materials Chemistry - University of Ottawa, Canada (2022-2027)
  • Associate Professor (2021-present) - University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Assistant Professor (2016-2021) - University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2015) - Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, INRS-EMT - Varennes (QC), Canada
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2012) - Tokyo University of Science - Noda (Chiba), Japan
  • PhD (Dr.-Ing.) (2008) – Materials Science – Saarland University, Germany
  • Diplôme (2004) – Génie des matériaux – École Européenne d'Ingénieurs en Génie des Matériaux, Nancy, France
  • Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) (2004) – Materials Science – Saarland University, Germany

FIELDS OF INTEREST
  • Materials chemistry
  • Lanthanide-based luminescent nanomaterials and molecules
  • Multifunctional nanocarriers
  • Optical properties
  • Energy-transfer mechanisms in lanthanide-based functionalities
  • Structure-property relationship
  • Near-infrared based bioimaging
  • Nano-bio interaction
  • Energy conversion applications

AWARDS
  • uOttawa Early Career Researcher of the Year, 2023
  • uOttawa Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher of the Year, 2022
  • Early-career Achievement Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by Nano Ontario, 2020
  • Jubilee Global Diversity Award by the Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), 2020
  • Du-Co Ceramics Young Professional Award of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), 2018
  • Feodor Lynen Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), 2013-2015
  • Global Young Investigator (GYI) Award of the Engineering Ceramics Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), 2014 
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • N. Liu, C. Homann, S. Morfin, M. Kesanakurti, N. Calvert, A. J. Shuhendler, T. Al, E. Hemmer*, Core-multi-shell design: Unlocking multimodal capabilities in lanthanide-based nanoparticles as upconverting, T2-weighted MRI and CT probes. Nanoscale 2023, 15, 19546-19556. DOI: 10.1039/D3NR05380F
  • E. M. Rodrigues, N. D. Calvert, J. C. Corriveau, N. Liu, A. J. Shuhendler, E. Hemmer*, Phytoglycogen encapsulation of lanthanide-based nanoparticles as optical imaging platform with therapeutic potential. Small 2022, 18, 2107130. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202107130.
  • N. Panov, D. Lu, E. Ortiz-Rivero, E. Martinazzo Rodrigues, P. Haro-González, D. Jaque*, E. Hemmer*. Hyperspectral imaging and optical trapping: Complementary tools for assessing direction-dependent polarized emission from single upconverting LiYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ microparticles. Adv. Opt. Mater. 2021, 9, 2100101. DOI: 10.1002/adom.202100101
  • I. Halimi, E. Martinazzo Rodrigues, S. L. Maurizio, T. Sun, M. Grewal, E. M. Boase, N. Liu, R. Marin, E. Hemmer*, Pick your precursor! Tailoring size and crystal phase of microwave-synthesized sub-10nm upconverting nanoparticles, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019, 7, 15364-15374. DOI: 10.1039/C9TC04817K     
  • N. Liu, R. Marin, Y. Mazouzi, G. O. Cron, A. J. Shuhendler, E. Hemmer*, Cubic versus hexagonal - Effect of the host crystallinity on the T1 shortening behaviour of NaGdF4 nanoparticles, Nanoscale 2019, 11, 6794-6801. DOI: 10.1039/C9NR00241C
  • N. Panov, R. Marin, E. Hemmer*, Microwave-assisted solvothermal synthesis of upconverting and downshifting rare-earth-doped LiYF4 microparticles, Inorganic Chemistry 2018, 57 (23), 14920-14929. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b0269

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