Team Members

Faduma Abdirahman (Undergraduate - 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.

Email: fabdi063(at)uottawa.ca

Emma Boase (Undergraduate - 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.

Email: eboas097(at)uottawa.ca

Dr. Isabel Gessner (Visiting Postdoc)

Isabel is staying with us for two months to investigate the optical properties of UNCP-based FRET pairs - and to enjoy the Canadian winter.

Email: igessner(at)ottawa.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

Nathaniel Leslie (Undergraduate - Honours Student)

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

Itzel Lopez-Carreon (Undergraduate - Honours Student)

Itzel joined us in January 2019 and is exploring the capabilities of our hyperspectral microscope for optical deep-tissue imaging.

Email: ilope068(at)uottawa.ca

Dr. 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

Nicholas Obitte (Visiting Postdoc)

Nicholas from the University of Nigeria is spending one month with us in order to study UCNPs for biomedical applications.

Email: nicholas.obitte(at)unn.edu.ng

Fadi Oussta (Graduate Student - 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

Yifei Wang (Undergraduate Student - UROP)

Yifei will spend fall 2018 and winter 2019 with us in order to synthesize semiconductor nanorods. Congratulations for the UROP award, Yifei!

Email: ywang599(at)uottawa.ca

Alumni

Undergraduate 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)

Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (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

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)