Team Members

Dr. Helliomar Barbosa (Postdoc)

Helliomar came from Brazil to join the group in fall 2022. He is working on aptamer-modified lanthandide-based nanoparticles to unveil microbiota interplay with the gut-brain axis (NFRF-funded project).

Email: H.Barbosa(at)uottawa.ca

Jessica Berg (Honour's Student)

Jessica joined the group to do her Honour's project. She explores new synthesis pathways to upconverting nanomaterials different from our standard NaREF4.
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Email: jberg043(at)uottawa.ca

Chris Conrad (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis at Tübingen University, Germany)

After having gained first experience in synthesis and spectroscopy of UCNPs in our lab in 2022, Chris is now focusing on theoretical aspects of upconversion under supervision of Prof. Reinhold Fink at Tübingen University, Germany. Looking forward for your next visit at uOttawa, Chris!
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Email: chris.conrad(at)uni-tuebingen.de

Lucas Crozier (Honour's Student)

Lucas joined the team to do his Honour's project with us. He will focus on the design of novel near-infrared emitting nanoparticles.
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Email: lcroz029(at)uottawa.ca

Jeremy Doucette (Graduate Student - M.Sc. Thesis)

Jeremy joined the team in September 2023. During his graduate studies, he focuses on the surface modification of lanthanide-doped nanomaterials for targeted biomedical applications.

Email: jdouc060(at)uottawa.ca

Dr. Christian Homann (Postdoc)

Christian joined the team in summer 2022 to develop inks based on lanthanide-doped nanoparticle for printing applications with Optech (Montreal).

Email: chomann(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

Hana Mirmajidi (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)

Hana became a Ph.D. candidate at the lab in fall 2021. She is exploring lanthanide-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications from imaging to sensing.

Email: smirm082(at)uottawa.ca

Connor Overton (Honour's Student)

Connor joins the team for his Honour's project establishing structure-property relationships of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles synthesized by a microwave-assisted approach.

Email: cover033(at)uottawa.ca

​Abigale Puccini (Graduate Student - M.Sc. Thesis)

Abigale joined the group in September 2021 to tune near-infrared emission properties of lanthanide-doped core/shell nanoparticles obtained by microwave-assisted routes and to apply them NIR-nanothermometers.

Email: apucc043(at)uottawa.ca

Ryan Way  (Honour's Student)

Ryan joins the team for his Honour's project working on surface modification of upconverting and NIR-emitting nanoparticles for biomedical applications.

Email: rway014(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

  • Sabrina Morin (September 2022 - April 2023)
  • Connor CampbellSmith (September 2022 - April 2023)
  • Anne-Pascale Murebwayire (September 2021 - April 2022)
  • Julia Bernard (January - April 2021)
  • ​Justin Crawford-Corriveau (January - April 2021)
  • Natalie Millan (January - April 2021)
  • Jessica Holmes (September 2020 - April 2021)
  • ​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

  • Akash Dahiya (Dec 2022 - April 2023)
  • Ghazal Al Saleh (Dec 2022 - April 2023)
  • Adam Omari (May 2021 - March 2022)
  • Luciana Yu (November 2020 - April 2021)
  • 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. Deepika Jamwal (February - June 2022; Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Postdoctoral Fellow from February to March 2022)
  • Dr. Emille M. Rodrigues (March 2019 - November 2021)
  • Dr. Riccardo Marin (November 2017 - November 2018)

Volunteers

  • Trinity Berube (Aug 2022 - May 2023)
  • Alexandre Sylvestre (May - August 2021 and June 2022)
  • Gabrielle Chong Foo Yuen (May - August 2022)
  • Nihar David (May - August 2021) 
  • Sinedu Dejene (October 2020 - April 2021)
  • 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

  • Manuela Mitroi (visiting PhD student from University of Nottingham, UK; July - September 2023)
  • Coline Charrier (visiting MSc Student from Université de Rennes, France; May - July 2023)
  • Kevin Soro (visiting PhD Student from Université de Strasbourg, France; funding: Canada Research Fund; July 2022)
  • Chris Conrad (MITACS Globalink Student; graduate student from University of Tübingen, Germany, February - April 2022)
  • Laura Kelly (RISE Summer Student; undergraduate student from University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada, May - August 2021)
  • Manjot Grewal (RISE Summer Student & NSERC 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. Loic Charbonnière (visiting researcher from Université de Strasbourg, France, July 2022)
  • Prof. Pawan Khanna (visiting professor from Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India, December 2021)
  • 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)
  • Dr. Ute Resch-Genger (visiting researcher from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany,  December 2018)