Group members

Physics Lab Technician:

  • William Johnston:     Room A121

    Email: williamj[at]nipissingu.ca

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
  • Jordan Nicksy:     M.Sc. student – Nipissing University –        Sep. 2025 – Present

    Project: Computational analysis of photothermal dynamics in tissue spectroscopy using phase-change nanoparticles

 

Undergraduate Research Students:


  • Matteo Gauthier: Undergraduate Research Students – Nipissing University, Spring-Summer 2026 – Present

    Project: Computational Design of Nanophotonic Thermal Emitters for Passive Infrared Sensing in Harsh Environments

 

Former Members (Supervised/Co-supervised):

  • Matthew Tuhan: Undergraduate Research Students – Nipissing University, Spring-Summer 2026 – NSERC – Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) holder
    Project: Computational Modeling of Photothermal Microchambers for Ultrafast PCR
  • Jordan Nicksy: Undergraduate Research Students – Nipissing University
    • Spring-Summer 2025 – NSERC – Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) holder
      Project: Computational Modeling of Radiative Heat Transfer in Tissue Spectroscopy
  • 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
  • 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.