Eva
Eva Hemmer
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science
University of Ottawa
10, Marie Curie St.
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
email: ehemmer@uottawa.ca
phone: +1 613 562 5800 – ext. 1987
office: DRO 118
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Eva Hemmer is an Assistant 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 Gd2O3 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.
EDUCATION & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
FIELDS OF INTEREST
AWARDS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Curriculum Vitae (download pdf)
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Dr. Eva Hemmer is an Assistant 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 Gd2O3 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.
EDUCATION & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- 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
- 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
- Prize from the Association of German Engineers Saar (VDI) for excellent diploma work, 2005
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- E. Hemmer, P. Acosta-Mora, J. Méndez-Ramos, S. Fischer,
Optical nanoprobes for biomedical applications: Shining a light on upconverting and near-infrared emitting nanoparticles for imaging, thermal sensing, and photodynamic therapy,
Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2017, 5, 4365-4392. DOI: 10.1039/C7TB00403F - S. Bhuckory, E. Hemmer, Y.-T. Wu, A. Yahia-Ammar, F. Vetrone, N. Hildebrandt,
Core or shell? Er3+ FRET donors in upconversion nanoparticles,
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2017, 44, 5186–5195. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700904 - A. Skripka, A. Benayas, R. MArin, P. Canton, E. Hemmer, F. Vetrone,
Double rare-earth nanothermometer in aqueous media: Opening the third optical transparency window to temperature sensing,
Nanoscale 2017, 9, 3079-3085. DOI: 10.1039/C6NR08472A - E. Hemmer, A. Benayas, F. Légaré, F. Vetrone,
Exploiting the biological windows: current perspectives on fluorescent bioprobes emitting above 1000 nm,
Nanoscale Horizons 2016, 1, 168-184. DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00073D - E. Hemmer, M. Quintanilla, F. Légaré, F. Vetrone,
Temperature-induced energy transfer in dye-conjugated upconverting nanoparticles: A new candidate for nanothermometry,
Chemistry of Materials 2015, 27 (1), 235-244. DOI: 10.1021/cm503799f - E. Hemmer, N. Venkatachalam, H. Hyodo, A. Hattori, Y. Ebina, H. Kishimoto, K. Soga,
Upconverting and NIR emitting rare earth based nanostructures for NIR-bioimaging,
Nanoscale 2013, 5 (23), 11339-11361. DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02286B - E. Hemmer, T. Yamano, H. Kishimoto, N. Venkatachalam, H. Hyodo, K. Soga,
Cytotoxic aspects of gadolinium oxide nanostructures for up-conversion and NIR bioimaging,
Acta Biomaterialia 2013, 9 (1), 4734-4743. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.08.045
Curriculum Vitae (download pdf)
Google Scholar
Research Gate
