Team Members

Manjot Grewal (RISE Summer Student & NSERC-USRA Scholar)

Manjot comes from McMaster University to spend the summer working on rare earth based nanoparticles at uOttawa. Congratulations on having been selected for the RISE program.

Email: grewam15(at)mcmaster.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.

Email: ihali081(at)uottawa.ca

Nabojit Kar (Undergraduate MITCAS Globalink Student)

Over the summer, Nabojit is working on the microwave-assisted synthesis of LiYF4 particles doped with lanthanides and is studying their optical properties.

Email: nkar073(at)uottawa.ca

Nathaniel Leslie (Summer Volunteer)

After gaining more COOP experience, Nathaniel came back to the HemmerLab in January 2019 in order to synthesize and optically characterize lanthanide-based nanoparticles.

Email: nlesl079(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

Nikita Panov (Graduate Student - Master's Thesis)

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

Email: npano018(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

Nelson Rutajoga (Summer Volunteer)

Nelson joined the team in order to help and learn about hyperspectral imaging and photoluminescence spectroscopy.

Email: nruta040(at)uottawa.ca

Tina Sun (Summer Volunteer)

Tina will support the group with synthesis of rare earth based nanoparticles for opto-magnetic applications.

Email: tsun075(at)uottawa.ca

Alumni

Undergraduate Honours Project Students

Itzel Lopez-Carreon (Januray - 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)

Volunteers

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

Visiting Students

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)

Postdocs

Dr. Riccardo Marin (November 2017 - November 2018)

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)