Faculty

Omar F. Mohammed Abdelsaboor, FRSC, Optica Fellow, FIMMM, FIOP, FAPS

Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering and Applied Physics

2019 - 2025 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science)

Chair of Materials Science & Engineering and Applied Physics

Associate Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS)

Associate Editor for Energy & Environmental Materials (Wiley)

Center for Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST)

Research Scientists

Lijie Wang

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Time-resolved absorpion spectroscopy, Scanning ultrafast electron microscopy, Photophysics, Photochemistry

Simil Thomas

Research Scientist

Research Interests: First-Principles Calculations, Perovskite materials, Covalent Organic Framework  Materials, Interfaces and Defects

Postdoctoral Fellows

Issatay Nadinov, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy, perovskite, Photophysics

Suman Bera

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Engineering Perovskite Nanocrystals and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Metal Halide Clusters, Investigation of Their Optoelectronic and Photophysical Properties for Efficient X-ray Imaging Scintillators PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tengyue He

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Indirect X-ray scintillator, Charge carrier dynamic of Lead–free Perovskite nanocrystals, Optoelectronic application based on Perovskite nanocrystals

Xin Zhu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: X-ray imaging, Scintillator, x-ray detectors, photocatalysis

Xudong Hu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal Halide synthesis, X-ray detection imaging

Yafeng Xu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskite materials, Catalytic reaction mechanism, Novel nanomaterials

PhD Student

Alaa Almushaikeh

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: radiation detection and imaging, nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication

Murilo Calil Faleiros

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: synthesis of materials for X-ray sensing, micro and nano-structures

Samiya Khaliq

PhD Student

Research Interests: Machine Learning, CNNs

Shumei Wang

PhD Student

Research Interests: x-ray detectors, fabrication of nanocrytals, Scintillator

Wentao  Wu

Ph.D. Students

Research Interests: X-ray detection

Yuanfan Wen

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: organic solar cells, x-ray detectors, 3D X-ray imaging, manganese halide scintillator

Alumni

Abdulkhaleq Almansaf

​MS Student

Research Interests: Spectroscopy, Photophysics

Amani Alsam

PhD Student

Research Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy, Organic photovoltaic, Photophysics, Organic electronics

Aniruddha Adhikari, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Photophysics, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

Anwar Usman, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Photophysics, Photochemistry

Basamat S. Shaheen

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Solar Energy, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Semiconductor nanocrystals

Chen Yang

PhD Student

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Biomaterials

Dilshad Masih, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Renewable energy

Emre Yengel, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Organic photovoltaic

Erkki Alarousu, PhD

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Geetanjali B. Deokar , PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Develop low-cost growth processes to synthesize high-crystalline quality 2D nanomaterials, validate the results through rigorous characterization

George Healing

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy, Photonics, Photochemistry

Ghada Hamdi Ahmed

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Photophysics, Photochemistry, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Haoze Yang

PhD Student

Research Interests: Perovskite nanocrystals, Nanomaterials, quantum dots

Hong Wang ,PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskite materials, Photochemistry

Jafar Khan, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Nanomaterials, Photophysics, Photochemistry

Jehad El Demellawi

PhD Student

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics, Physical Chemistry

Jianfeng Zhao, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 4D ultrafast electron microscopy

jianxin Wang, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Design, engineer and explore energy transfer systems for sensors, X-ray imaging scintillators and optical wireless communications

Jun Yin, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Hybrid nanostructured materials, Structural, vibrational, electronic and photophysical properties of novel material systems

Luis Gutiérrez Arzaluz, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: time-resolved laser spectroscopy, single-particle emission techniques

Manas Parida, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanotechnology, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Photophysics

Mohamed Eita, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Biomaterials

Murali Banavoth, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organic&inorganic hybrids, Photo detection, Nanotechnology

Partha Maity, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Ultrafast spectroscopy, perovskite, Photophysics

Qana Alsulami

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

Razan Omar Nughays

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Scanning Ultrafast Electron Microscope( SUEM)

Riya Bose, PhD (Joint post-doc with Prof. Bakr)

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Semiconductor nanocrystals, Heterostructures, Photophysics, Photoconductivity and photovoltaics, Ultrafast spectroscopy

Sarvarkhodzha Nematulloev

PhD Student

Research Interests: 4D Scanning Ultrafast Electron Microscopy

Shanshan Zhang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Thin-film semiconductors, photovoltaic solar cells, ultrafast laser spectroscopy and four dimensional electron imaging, charge carrier recombination, energy loss analysis

Shawkat Aly, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Donor-acceptor interaction, Ground-state and excited state interaction, Photo-induced energy and excited state interaction

Shorooq Abdulrahman Alomar

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Photophysics, Ultrafast spectroscopy

Smritakshi Phukan Sarmah, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanostructures, Photophysics, Donor-acceptor interaction, Photo-induced energy and excited state interaction, Semiconductor quantum dots

Sun Jingya, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Spectroscopy, Nanostructures, 3D modeling, Simulation

Vasily Melnikov, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

Xi Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Scintillator, X-ray imaging, X-ray detection, photoelectrochemistry

Xin Song

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskite single crystals, Direct X-ray detection, X-ray imaging scintillators

Yang Zhou, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Scintillator, X-ray imaging, X-ray detection, perovskite

Yuhai Zhang, PhD

Posdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Semiconductor quantum dots, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system