The Group

the team
The team with our Japanese partners, Oct. 2019
Rana Poushimin, PhD Candidate

Rana Poushimin, PhD Candidate

Rana Poushimin's research is about plasmonic hot-electron devices, with emphasis on the design of a plasmonic antenna hot-electron solar cell. She got her MSc and BSc at Persian Gulf University of Iran and worked on the topology optimization of photonic crystal LEDs. She switched her research from theoretical fields into the new exciting world of experimental,  striving to exploit her skills in simulation on her Ph.D. project in order to make her thesis unique.

Arash Nikniazi

Arash Nikniazi, MSc candidate

Graduate Student in Photonics and Teaching Assistant at Queen's University (2019)

Education: Master of Science - Photonics, Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy (RIAPA), Tabriz University (2013-2016)

Research Project: Solar cells based on perovskite materials, Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs)

Braulio Antonio

Braulio Antonio, M.Sc. Candidate

Graduate Student in Photonics and Teaching Assistant at Queen's University (2019-)

Education: B.Sc. Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (2013-2018)

Research Project: Studying non-linearity and chiral responses in light-matter interactio

Samaneh Aynehband

Samaneh Aynehband, PhD Tehran

Hometown: Tehran, Iran

Education:

  • PhD student, Materials science and engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Visiting research student, Physics, Queen's University, Canada (2019), Visiting research student, Chemistry, EMPA, Switzerland (2018).
  • M.Sc., Materials science and engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
  • B.Sc., Materials science and engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran.

Research project: I'm working on surface properties and ligand engineering of PbS quantum dots, using different perovskite ligands for boosting the response and facilitating the electron transport in QD-sensitized graphene-based phototransistors.