Team Members

Faduma Abdirahman (Honours Student)

Faduma joined the lab in May 2018 in order to help on the synthesis of nanoparticles and quantum dots and their optical characterization. We are excited that she decided to continue her work on quantum dots as a Honours Student.
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Email: fabdi063(at)uottawa.ca

Emma Boase (Honours Student)

Emma joined the lab in September 2018 as a Honours Student. She will focus her research on the synthesis of upconverting nanoparticles by a microwave-assisted process.
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Email: eboas097(at)uottawa.ca

Ilias Halimi (Graduate Student - Master's Thesis)

Ilias joined uOttawa and the lab in September 2017. He studies energy transfer in lanthanide-based materials.
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Email: ihali081(at)uottawa.ca

Nan Liu (Graduate Student - Master's Thesis)

Nan started to work on the surface modification of magnetic nanoparticles in September 2017.

Email: nliu039(at)uottawa.ca

Riccardo Marin (Postdoc)

Riccardo joined the group in November 2017 after obtaining his PhD from the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His research links optical and magnetic materials and molecules from the Hemmer- and the Murugesu-Lab. 

Email: rmarin2(at)uottawa.ca

Fadi Oussta (Master's Thesis)

Fadi joined the lab as a volunteer in October 2016 and did his Honours project on ZnO photocatalysts. We are excited to having him back in the lab for his Master's thesis.

Email: fouss102(at)uottawa.ca

Nikita Panov (Graduate Student - Master's Thesis)

Nikita joined the group in September 2017 to work lanthanide-based frequency converting nanostructures. 

Email: npano018(at)uottawa.ca

Alumni

Honours Project Students

Fadi Oussta (September 2017 - April 2018)
Qing Qing (Kinna) Zhao (September 2017 - April 2018)
Jeffry Colin (September 2016 - April 2017)
Rebecca Duris (September 2016 - April 2017)
Alex Therien (January - April 2017)

COOP Students

Nathaniel Leslie (Mai - August 2017)
Alex Therien (May - December 2016)
Rayan Ghadieh (May - August 2016)

UROP Students

Brad Martire (November 2016 - April 2017)
Kinna Zhao (October 2016 - April 2017)
Nathaniel Leslie (October 2016 - April 2017)
Jamal Al-Refaee (November 2016 - March 2017)

Volunteers

Faduma Abdirahman (May - August 2018)
​Joelle Machaalni (June - July 2017)
Nathaniel Leslie (May - September 2016)
Fozia Nur (May - August 2016)

Visiting Students

​Steven Maurizio (RISE Summer Student; undergraduate student from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May - August 2018)
​Yacine Mazouzi (graduate student from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, April - August 2017)