Staff

The research group L3 currently has the following members :

Academic staff

  • Rik Van Deun
    Rik.VanDeun [at] UGent.be

    Head of the Luminescent Lathanide Lab

PhD researchers

  • Jieqi Hu
    Jieqi.Hu [at] UGent.be

    Investigates charge-transfer phenomena in lanthanide-doped CaF2 (in co-promotership with prof. Smet (WE04)).

  • Maya Boone
    maya.boone [at] ugent.be

    Designs non-carboxylate lanthanide coordination polymers.

  • Zhiwang Cai
    zhiwang.cai [at] ugent.be

    Investigates the principles of plasmonic sensitization of lanthanide luminescence.

  • Tingting Yang
    tingting.yang [at] ugent.be

    Makes luminescent mesoporous materials for sensing and photocatalysis (in co-promotership with prof. Van Der Voort).

Former post-doc researchers

1 September 2014 - 31 July 2015
Aleksandar Savić

Synthesized luminescent lanthanide and ruthernium complexes for DNA-intercalation

Flavia Artizzu

Developed nanocomposite materials for highly efficient sensitized near-infrared lanthanide emission

Anna M. Kaczmarek

Investigated luminescent rare-earth materials for temperature sensing.

Joydeb Goura

Designed coordination compounds for luminescent and magnetic applications.

Kai Li

Designed and synthesized inorganic luminescent materials for LED applications.

Manjari Jayendran

Developed lanthanide coordination polymers and studied their structure-function relationship.

Former Phd researchers

Jing Liu

Made luminescent lanthanide-doped nanomaterials based on upconversion and downshifting.

Jeroen De Decker

Made porous materials for rare-earth recuperation from waste streams (in collaboration with prof. Van Der Voort and De Clercq)
(PhD defence: 12 June 2017)

Dimitrije Mara

Studied materials that show temperature-dependent luminescence.

Min Zeng

Developed lanthanide-doped perovskites.

Tim Verdonck

Investigated chromium deposition during steel electroplating (in collaboration with prof. K. Van Hecke)

Ken Princen

Studied bio-conjugation of polyoxometalates for life science applications (in collaboration with prof. K. Van Hecke)

Roel Decadt

Studied luminescent lanthanide MOFs
(PhD defence: 11 May 2015)

Chaoqing Yang

Made lanthanide-containing hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks (HOFs)

Anna M. Kaczmarek

Made luminescent rare-earth carbonate and tungstate materials at the micro- and nano-scale
(PhD defence: 27 February 2015)

Wanlu Liu

Developed lanthanide-containing PMOs (in co-promotership with prof. Van Der Voort and prof. Kaczmarek).

Former visiting post-doc / PhD researchers

15 September 2015 - June 2016
Parviz Gohari Derakhshandeh

Department of Chemistry, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Made luminescent lanthanide-containing coordination polymers (in co-promotership with prof. K. Van Hecke)

7 April 2014 – 7 May 2014
Flavia Artizzu

Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Performed absolute quantum yield measurements on near-infrared emitting lanthanide quinolinates

1 April 2015 – 31 July 2015
Ilaria Nelli

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Italy (prof. G. Costa)
Studied luminescent rare-earth oxides and oxycarbonates

2 April 2014 – 29 June 2014
Federico Locardi

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Italy (prof. G. Costa)
Made lanthanide carbonate particles at the nano and micro size

Former thesis students

Volker Jens Schwerdtner

(2014-2015)
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Synthesized ruthenium complexes for DNA-interaction (in co-promotership with prof. Van Hecke)

Linde Miermans

(2011-2012)
Made luminescent lanthanide carbonate particles

Micheline D'hooge

(2014-2015)
Made luminescent rare-earth vanadates at the nano- and micro-scale

Stefanie Smeets

(2011-2012)
Investigated luminescent lanthanide MOFs

Florence Haepers

(2014-2015)
Made luminescent lanthanide complexes for DNA-interaction (in co-promotership with prof. K. Van Hecke)

Roel Decadt

(2009-2010)
Studied luminescent carboxylate lanthanide MOFs (in co-promotership with prof. P. Van Der Voort)

Tineke Mortier

(2014-2015)
Investigated 3d-4f Schiff base complexes (in co-promotership with prof. K. Van Hecke)

Jeroen De Cock

(2016-2017)
Studied interactions between polyoxometalates and proteins (promoter: prof. K. Van Hecke)

Jason Serck

(2013-2014)
Synthesized luminescent lanthanide MOFs

Elena Quinteiro González (Vigo University, Spain)

(2016-2017)
Developed lanthanide-doped tungstates for white-light emission via upconversion and/or downshifting

Dorine Ndagsi

(2013-2014)
Made white light emitting lanthanide-doped rare-earth tungstate and vanadate materials

Giovanni Pampararo (Genova University, Italy)

(2016-2017)
Made europium-doped alkaline-earth tungstates

Matthias Van Zele

(2013-2014)
Studied ink jet printing of luminescent thin films containing lanthanide-doped nano phosphors