Staff
The research group L3 currently has the following members :
Academic staff
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Rik Van DeunRik.VanDeun [at] UGent.be
Head of the Luminescent Lathanide Lab
PhD researchers
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Jieqi HuJieqi.Hu [at] UGent.be
Investigates charge-transfer phenomena in lanthanide-doped CaF2 (in co-promotership with prof. Smet (WE04)).
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Maya Boonemaya.boone [at] ugent.be
Designs non-carboxylate lanthanide coordination polymers.
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Zhiwang Caizhiwang.cai [at] ugent.be
Investigates the principles of plasmonic sensitization of lanthanide luminescence.
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Tingting Yangtingting.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) |
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 |
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 |
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 |
7 April 2014 – 7 May 2014 Flavia Artizzu
Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy |
1 April 2015 – 31 July 2015 Ilaria Nelli
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Italy (prof. G. Costa) |
2 April 2014 – 29 June 2014 Federico Locardi
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, Italy (prof. G. Costa) |
Former thesis students
Volker Jens Schwerdtner
(2014-2015) |
Linde Miermans
(2011-2012) |
Micheline D'hooge
(2014-2015) |
Stefanie Smeets
(2011-2012) |
Florence Haepers
(2014-2015) |
Roel Decadt
(2009-2010) |
Tineke Mortier
(2014-2015) |
Jeroen De Cock
(2016-2017) |
Jason Serck
(2013-2014) |
Elena Quinteiro González (Vigo University, Spain)
(2016-2017) |
Dorine Ndagsi
(2013-2014) |
Giovanni Pampararo (Genova University, Italy)
(2016-2017) |
Matthias Van Zele
(2013-2014) |