Team Members

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 (Graduate Student - Ph.D. Thesis)

Sinedu focuses on the synthesis of silica-coated lanthanide-doped nanoparticles and their optical properties, seeking implementation into optoelectronic devices with the Lessard Research Group.

Email: stefera(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

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

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

Anne-Pascale Murebwayire (Honour's Student)

Anne-Pascale joined the team to tackle the challenge of bright near-infrared emission from small lanthanide-doped nanoparticles during her 2021-2022 Honour's Project.

Email: amure087(at)uottawa.ca

Adam Omari (Undergraduate Student - Volunteer)

Adam explores how to extend our existing microwave-assisted synthesis protocols to various core/shell architectures. 

Email: aomar046(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 in biomedical applications.

Email: apucc043(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

Alexandre Sylvestre (Undergraduate Student - Volunteer)

We knew it: Science and Music go very well hand in hand! uOttawa Music student Alexandre joined the group to assess the optical properties of lanthanide-doped ZnO nanomaterials. 

Email: asylv045(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

  • 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

  • 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. Riccardo Marin (November 2017 - November 2018)

Volunteers

  • 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

  • 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. 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)