Photo: January 2026 - Group photo on th Rideau Canal (Front: Hana, Nayara, Lilianna, Sari, Lisa, Azin, Sitharth. Back: Eva, Riccardo, York, Tamires, Jaida, Ebrahim. Missing: Aya and Raquel)

Meet the Team

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Principle Investigator

Eva Hemmer
Associate Professor
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Eva, by training a materials scientist, grow up and graduated in Germany. She got in touch with lanthanide-based nanomaterials for the first time during her doctoral studies and developed a passion for them. Since then, she combined chemical, physical and biomedical aspects of lanthanide-based nanomaterials as a postdoctoral researcher in Japan (Tokyo University of Science) and Canada (INRS-EMT). In 2016, she joined the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Ottawa, where her research will focus on the design of novel lanthanide-based nanocarriers for applications ranging from bioimaging to solar technologies. 
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Undergraduate Students (Honour's)

• Aya Dananne
• Lilianna Liang Wu​
• Sari Warshawsky
  

Graduate Students

• ​​Azin Khamesan​
• ​​Lisa La
• Raquel Matos
• Hana Mirmajidi
• ​​Riccardo Speghini​

Postdocs

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Volunteers

• Jaida Kurz
• Sitharth Partheepan​
• Ebrahim Radwan

Visiting Students, Postdocs & Researchers

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Visiting Graduate Students

• Tamires Maira Oliveira