Physics Lab Technician:

• William Johnston: Room A121
  Email: williamj[at]nipissingu.ca

Research Assistant :

• Dr. Simin Shirin – Mar. 2023 – Present
  Project: Tunable Goos–Hänchen Shifts in Phase-Change-Material-Based Thin Film Nanostructures

Graduate Students:

•  Elizabeth Primeau: M.Sc. student – Nipissing University – Sep. 2024 – Present
  Project: Fundamental and theoretical study of photodynamic therapy using smart phase transition nanoparticles

Undergraduate Research Students:

Former Members (Supervised/Co-supervised):

• Elizabeth Primeau – Undergraduate Research Students – Nipissing University
  • Spring-Summer 2023
    
  • Spring-Summer 2024 – NSERC – Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) holder
    Project: Survey of research and diagnostic photonics in biology and medicine.
• Amin Sabzevari – M.Sc. student – Nipissing University – Sep. 2021 – Jul. 2024
  Project: Inverse design and optimization of a one-dimensional metagrating beam deflector by smart pattern search.
• Megan Pulford – M.Sc. Student and Undergraduate Research Students – Nipissing University
  • Summer research student – 2019 and 2020
  •  Senior research student – Fall 2020 and Winter 2021
  • Mitacs Research Training Award (RTA) holder – November 2020
    Project: Numerical Investigation of the Thermo-Optical Switching Mechanism of Metal-Insulator Transition Materials
  • M.Sc. Student – Sep 2021 – Aug 2023
    Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) award holder-2021-2023
    Project: Analytical Study of the Photothermal Response of a Multilayer Nanostructure Doped with Smart VO2@Au Nanoshells
• Neda Amjadi – Ph.D. student – Tarbiat Modares University – Feb. 2020 – Jan. 2023
  Project: Photothermal and Photoacoustic Response of a VO2@Au Nanoshell Irradiated by a Nanosecond Laser Pulse.
• Neda Daliran – Ph.D. student  ( Jul. 2020 – Nov. 2022) and Visiting PhD Student (Apr. 2022 – Nov. 2022) – from University of Kurdistan
  Project: Study of tunable photothermal response of nanostructures mediate by phase change materials: computational modeling and applications.
• Dr. Naser Zamani-Postdoctoral fellow-Shiraz University – May. 2020 – Jun. 2022
  Project: Temporal Analysis of Photo-Thermally Induced Reconfigurability in a 1D Gold Grating filled with Phase Change Materials.
• Dr. Alireza Keshavarz, Visiting researchers,  Shiraz University of Technology, July 2019 – July 2021.
• Zahra Ebtehaj– Ph.D. student – University of Isfahan – June 2016 – August 2021
  Project: Numerical Simulation of Ultrashort Laser Irradiation Effects in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Mediated Neural Stimulation
• Dr. Tara Moradi – Postdoctoral fellow – Nipissing University – Aprl 2019 – July 2020
  Project: Thermal tracing of a highly reconfigurable and wideband infrared heat sensor based on vanadium dioxide.
• Dr. Arezou Rashidi – Visiting PhD student and Postdoctoral fellow – Tabriz University – March 2018 – December 2019
  Project: Thermal Induced Tuning of Absorption in Phase Change Material -Based 1D Multilayer Nanostructures.
• Daynen Murphy – USRA-NSERC student – Nipissing University – Summer 2018 and 2019
  Project: Transfer Matrix Techniques for Electromagnetic Waves in 1D Multilayer Nanostructures.
• Benjamin Cook: Nipissing University – Undergraduate Research Student – Fall 2019
  Project: Quantum Wells: Applications and Solutions
• Naser Zamani – Ph.D student – Shiraz University – Advisor – June 2016
  Project: Optimization of optical properties of quantum dot-metal nanoparticle systems.
• William Johnston – Master student – Nipissing University – February 2016 – November 2017
  Project: Coherent Control of Optical Absorption and the Energy Transfer Pathway of an Infrared Quantum Dot Hybridized with a VO2 Nanoparticle.
• Behafarid Darvish -Research Assistant – September 2014 – December 2015 Project: Photoacoustic response from gold nanostructures irradiated by a femtosecond pulsed laser.
• Adam Burke – Undergraduate Student – Nipissing University – October 2014 – August 2015
  Project: Plasma-mediated effects in ultrafast laser irradiation of gold nanoshells in water.
• Parastoo Moaf – Research Assistant – November 2014 – May 2015
  Project: Study of gold nanoparticle assisted stimulation of neurons in degenerative diseases in infrared regime.
• Quinlan McParland: Nipissing University – Undergraduate Research Student – September 2016
  Project: Optical excitation of collective resonances in metallic nanostructure arrays.
• Calvin Bailey: Nipissing University – Research Undergraduate Student – September 2016
  Project: Photothermal study of phase change nanostructure (vanadium dioxide) for thermosensing application of nanoscale targets.