Team Members

Julia Bernard (Honour's Student)

Julia works on lanthanide-based nanoparticles and 2D graphene exploring how to merge these two exciting materials classes.

Email: jbern031(at)uottawa.ca

Justin Crawford-Corriveau (Honour's Student)

Justin joined the team to design micelle systems loaded with lanthanide-based nanoparticles and the study their optical properties.

Email: jcraw076(at)uottawa.ca

Nihar Dave (Undergraduate Volunteer)

Covid-19 brings new styles of how to work "in" a research lab: Nihar is contributing to ongoing research by helping with remote data analysis.

Email: ndave038(at)uottawa.ca

Sinedu Dejene (Senior Volunteer)

Sinedu focuses on the synthesis of silica-coated lanthanide-doped nanoparticles and their optical properties.

Email: stefera(at)uottawa.ca

Jessica Holmes (Honour's Student)

Jessica joins the team in September 2020 to explore synthesis pathways and optical properties of various core-shell architectured rare-earth based nanoparticles

Email: jholm070(at)uottawa.ca

Nan Liu (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)

Nan started to work on the surface modification of magnetic nanoparticles in September 2017. After having finished her Master's thesis in October 2019, she is now working on her PhD project. Great news in 2020: her project receives funding through the Chinese Scholarship Council.

Email: nliu039(at)uottawa.ca

Natalie Millan (Honour's Student)

Natalie focuses on the optical properties of Europium and Terbium complexes designed by the Murugesu Group.

Email: nmill046(at)uottawa.ca

Dr. Emille Martinazzo Rodrigues (Postdoc)

Emille joined the group in March 2019 to work on lanthanide-based materials for biomedical (and beyond) applications.

Email: emartina(at)uottawa.ca

Fathi Souissi (Graduate Student - Master's Thesis)

Fathi is co-supervised by Dr. Adina Luican-Mayer and brings together the worlds or lanthanide-based nanoparticles and 2D-materials.

Email: fsoui096(at)uottawa.ca

Luciana Yu (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Awardee)

Luciana is gaining first lab experience by working on the synthesis and optical characterization of surface-modified nanoparticles.

Email: lyu076(at)uottawa.ca

Alumni

Graduate Students

Nikita Panov (M.Sc. 2017 - 2020; Microwave-Assisted Solvothermal Synthesis and Optical Characterization of M(RE)F4 (M – Alkali Metal; RE – Rare-Earth Metal) Nano- and Microscale Particles)
Ilias Halimi (M.Sc. 2017 - 2020; Energy Transfer in Lanthanide-based Nanomaterial)
Nan Liu (M.Sc. 2017 - 2019; Tailoring Crystalline Phase and Surface of Lanthanide-Based Nanoparticles for MRI Applications)

Undergraduate Honours Project Students

Kusuma Virginna Adiningtyas (January - April 2020)
Parrish Evers (September 2019 - April 2020)
Nicholas Gobeil (September 2019 - April 2020)
Tina Sun (September 2019 - April 2020)
Itzel Lopez-Carreon (January - April 2019)
Nathaniel Leslie (January - April 2019)
Faduma Abdirahman (September 2018 - April 2019)
Emma Boase (September 2018 - April 2019)
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)

Undergraduate COOP Students

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

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Students

Yifei Wang (November 2018 - April 2019)
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)

Postdocs

Dr. Riccardo Marin (November 2017 - November 2018)

Volunteers

Amanda Friio (January - October 2020)
Nelson Rutajoga (May - August 2019)
Faduma Abdirahman (May - August 2018)
Joelle Machaalni (June - July 2017)
Nathaniel Leslie (May - September 2016)
Fozia Nur (May - August 2016)

Visiting Students

Manjot Grewal (RISE Summer Student & NSRC USRA Scholar; undergraduate student from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, May - August 2019)
Nabojit Kar (MITACS Globalink Summer Student; undergraduate student from Indian Research Institute of Science and Education, Kolkata, India, May - August 2019)
Camille Laot (undergraduate student from Lycée Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Paris, France, October - December 2018)
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)

Visiting Postdocs & Researchers

Dr. Isabel Gessner (visiting postdoc from University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, February - April 2019)
Dr. Nicholas Obitte (visiting researcher from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, February - March 2019)