Pan Xia received her Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside under the supervision of Prof. Minglee Tang in 2019. Her research focused on the surface engineering of QD with the design& synthesis of ligands to achieve efficient energy/ charge transfer. She worked as a joint postdoc of Prof. Minglee Tang and Prof. Kaifeng Wu at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics on applying the pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate the fundamentals of QDs in 2020. She wants to combine her QD surface chemistry and photophysical background to understand the mechanism and design good performance of QD optoelectronic devices.
Dr. Muhammad (Imran) Imran
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: muhd.imran@utoronto.ca
Imran received his Ph.D. in Nanochemistry from Italian Institute of Technology in 2019, under the supervision of Prof. Liberato Manna. Then, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the same institute till December 2021. His previous research primarily centered on the syntheses of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and their post-synthetic structural, chemical, and surface transformations. He joined Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2021. His current research interests include the synthesis of colloidal quantum dots for light emission applications.
Dr. Lizhou Fan
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: lizhou.fan@utoronto.ca
Lizhou Fan received his Ph.D. degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Licheng Sun. He joined the Sargent Group in 2021 as a postdoc fellow. He is currently working on electrochemical CO2 reduction.
Dr. Jiheon Kim
Email: jiheon.kim@utoronto.ca
Jiheon Kim received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Taeghwan Hyeon. His Ph.D. research was in novel nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage applications. He joined the group in July 2022 as an A3MD postdoctoral fellow, and his current focus is on AI-accelerated catalytic materials discovery with high-throughput experimentation.
Dr. Da Bin Kim
Da Bin received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Yonsei University, Korea, under the supervision of Prof. Yong Soo Cho in Feb. 2022. Her previous research was on the strain engineering of halide perovskite films for optoelectronic and piezoelectric applications. She joined the Sargent group in Sept. 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow and her current focus is on low-dimensional perovskites for photovoltaics.
Dr. Amin Morteza Najjarian
Email: amin.morteza@utoronto.ca
Amin Received his Ph.D. from University of Alberta under the supervision of Prof. Richard L. McCreery in 2018. His research focus has been on the Molecular Electronics: from flexible fabrication, transport and optoelectronics to electrostatic doping of molecular layer (
Dr. Benjamin Rehl
Benjamin Rehl received his Ph.D. in chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Julianne M. Gibbs at the University of Alberta. His research involved the functionalization and characterization of nanomaterials and mineral oxide/aqueous interfaces. In September 2022, he joined the Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow where he translates his knowledge of interfacial chemistry to the study of quantum dot-based sensing materials.
