Team Members

Faduma Abdirahman (Undergraduate Summer Volunteer)

Faduma joined the lab in May 2018 in order to help on the synthesis of nanoparticles and quantum dots and their optical characterization.
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Email: fabdi063(at)uottawa.ca

Ilias Halimi (Graduate Student - Master 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 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

Steven Maurizio (RISE Summer Student)

Steven is joining the lab over summer 2018 in the frame of the RISE exchange program. He explores the synthesis of various lanthanide-doped nanoparticles by a microwave-assisted approach.

Email: s.maurizio(at)hotmail.com

Fadi Oussta (Honours Student)

Fadi joined the lab as a volunteer in October 2016 as a volunteer and is now working on his honours project studying lanthanide-doped oxide nanostructures.

Email: fouss102(at)uottawa.ca

Nikita Panov (Graduate Student - Master Thesis)

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

Email: npano018(at)uottawa.ca

Qing Qing (Kinna) Zhao (Volunteer, UROP Student and now Honours Student)

Kinna was volunteering in the lab since September 2016 supporting the synthesis of lanthanide-based magnetic nanoparticles. In November 2016 she received an UROP award.
September 2017: Welcome back in the lab after being a a RISE fellow at Münster University over summer!

Email: kzhao064(at)uottawa.ca

Alumni

Honours Project Students

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

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

Visiting Students

Yacine Mazouzi (graduate student from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, April - August 2017)