Research Scientists

Erkki Alarousu, PhD

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Jun Yin, PhD

Research Scientist

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

Research Group Staff

Anwar Usman, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Photophysics, Photochemistry

Dilshad Masih, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Catalysis, Renewable energy

Vasily Melnikov, PhD

Research Technical Specialist

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

Postdoctoral Fellows

Aniruddha Adhikari, PhD

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

Emre Yengel, PhD

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Organic photovoltaic

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

Hong Wang ,PhD

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: Perovskite materials, Photochemistry

Jafar Khan, PhD

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

Jianfeng Zhao, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 4D ultrafast electron microscopy

Luis Gutiérrez Arzaluz, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Manas Parida, PhD

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

Mohamed Eita, PhD

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Biomaterials

Murali Banavoth, PhD

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

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

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

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

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

Smritakshi Phukan Sarmah, PhD

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

Sun Jingya, PhD

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

Yuhai Zhang, PhD

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

MS/PhD Students

Abdulkhaleq Almansaf

​MS Student

Research Interests: Spectroscopy, Photophysics

Amani Alsam

PhD Student

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

Basamat S. Shaheen

​PhD Student

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

Qana Alsulami

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system

PhD Student

Chen Yang

PhD Student

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Biomaterials

Ghada Hamdi Ahmed

​PhD Student

Research Interests: Photophysics, Photochemistry, Ultrafast laser spectroscopy

Haoze Yang

PhD Student

Research Interests: Perovskite nanocrystals, Nanomaterials, quantum dots

Jehad El Demellawi

PhD Student

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics, Physical Chemistry

Visiting PhD Student

Chun Gu

Visiting PhD Student