News

  • 1 May 2018 - Welcome to our newest group members, RISE summer student Steven and summer volunteer Faduma!
  • April 2018 - Our first paper is online! Read more about Optical Anisotropy and Polymorph‐Dependent Photoluminescence in [Ln2] Complexes...
  • April 2018 - Nikita Panov was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2018-2019. Congratulations, Nikita!
  • March 2018 - Dr. Ute Resch-Genger (Federal Institute for Materials Research & Testing, Berlin, Germany) and Dr. Hemmer were awarded the uOttawa Visiting Research Program - the group is looking forward to host Dr. Resch-Genger in Fall 2018!
  • 1 November 2017 - The group is welcoming our new postdoc Riccardo Marin!
  • September 2017 - The group is growing. Welcome to graduate students Ilias, Nan and Nikita!
  • May 2017 - Volunteer Joelle Machaalani joined the lab. Welcome, Joelle!
  • 13 April 2017 - our VIS-NIR Confocal Hyperpectral Imager has been installed! Read more about its features...​
  • April 2017 - Yacine Mazouzi from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, France) joined the lab for the next five months. Welcome, Yacine! 
  • March 2017 - Our review paper is online: "Optical Nanoprobes for Biomedical Applications: Shining a Light on Upconverting and Near-Infrared Emitting Nanoparticles for Imaging, Thermal Sensing, and Photodynamic Therapy", J. Mater. Chem. B, read more...
  • ​November 2016 - Congratulations to Jamal Al-Refaee, Nathaniel Leslie, Brad Martire and Qing Qing Zhao for their UROP Awards. 
  • October 2016 - Volunteering student Fadi Oussta joined the team. Welcome to the lab!
  • October 2016 - Congratulations to Alex Therien! 2nd Prize for the presentation of "My Project in 180 Seconds" at the 28e Colloque de Chimie de l'Université de Sherbrooke!
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Alex presenting his project in 180 seconds
  • ​September 2016 - Volunteering student Qing Qing Zhao and Honours student Jeffry Colin joined the team. Welcome to the lab!  
  • May 2016 - Volunteering students Nathaniel Leslie and Fozia Nur joined the team. Welcome to the lab!
  • May 2016 - COOP summer students Rayan Ghadieh and Alexander Therien will join the team. Welcome to the lab!
  • 15 March 2016 - The Hemmer Research Lab was awarded CFI funding. See press release for more details.
  • 12 March 2016 - The website goes online!
  • 10 March 2016 - The Discover Microwave Reactor has arrived! The lab starts to get set-up.