NanoBioInterfaces Team (NBI)

WELCOME TO THE NANOBIOINTERFACES GROUP OF THE IEMN

THE NBI TEAM

PERMANENT STAFF MEMBERS
 

Dr. Rabah BOUKHERROUB
Directeur de Recherche (DR1)
Team Leader of NBI
Associate Editor, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 120
Phone:  +33 (0)3.62.53.17.24
Mobile:  +33 (0)6.03.57.25.23
Fax : +33 (0)3.62.53.17.01
E-mail: rabah.boukherroub@univ-lille.fr
Curriculum Vitae/sites/pang.univ-lille.fr/files/Pang/nbi/short_cv_boukherroub_rabah.pdf

 

Dr. Yannick COFFINIER
Charge de Recherche (CR1)

Location: IEMN, RROM 214

Phone:  +33 (0)3.20.19.79.87
Mobile:  +33 (0)6 61.93.34.05
E-mail: yannick.coffinier@univ-lille.fr  

 

Dr. Alexandre BARRAS
Ingenieur de Recherche (IA)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 119

Phone:  +33 (0)3.62.53.17.23
Fax : +33 (0)3.62.53.17.01
E-mail: alexandre.barras@univ-lille.fr 

 

 

 

Dr. Sabine SZUNERITS
Professeur in Chemistry, USTL (PR EX)
ISE Regional Representative of France (ISE, http://www.ise-online.org/)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 121
Phone:  +33 (0)3.62.53.17.25
Mobile:  +33 (0)6.72.73.49.14
Fax : +33 (0)3.62.53.17.01
E-mail: sabine.szunerits@univ-lille.fr
Curriculum Vitae :/sites/pang.univ-lille.fr/files/Pang/nbi/szunerits_cv_webpage.pdf

 

Dr. Emerson GIOVANELLI
Maitre de Conference (MdC)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 119
Phone:  +33 (0)3.62.53.17.23
Mobile:  +33 (0)6 61.93.34.05
E-mail: emerson.giovanelli@univ-lille.fr
Curriculum Vitae/sites/pang.univ-lille.fr/files/Pang/nbi/short_cv_-_e._giovanelli.pdf

 

Mr. Quentin PAGNEUX
Ingenieur

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 128
Email: quentin.pagneux@sattnord.fr

 

 

 

 

 

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DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Guerra ABDELOUADOUD

01 September 2016 – 30 June 2019

Funding: Co-tutelle, partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) Tassili
Supervisors: Rabah BOUKHERROUB, Toufik HADJERSI (Université de Sétif 1 & Centre de recherche CRTSE d’Alger)
Title of thesis: Etude et réalisation de super-condensateurs à base des nanofils de silicium

E-mail: guerra_abdelouadoud@yahoo.com

 

 

 

Zhang JING

Funding: Chinese Government Scholarship
01 September 2018 – 31 August 2021

Supervisors: Rabah BOUKHERROUB
Title of the thesis: Preparation of Diamond Nanowires Composite Materials and their Application as Efficient Electrodes for Aqueous Micro-Supercapacitors

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 126
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.22
Email: zhangjing3534@163.com

 

 

Tianlong YU

Funding: Chinese Government Scholarship
01 September 2018 – 31 August 2021

Supervisors: Rabah BOUKHERROUB
Title of the thesis: Design and investigation of the super wettability of nanostructured composite coatings

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 136
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.22
Email: ytl695140552@gmail.com

Miao YUANYUAN

Funding: Chinese Government Scholarship
01 September 2018 – 31 August 2021

Supervisors: Rabah BOUKHERROUB
Title of the thesis:Preparation of high performance nanomaterials for electrochemical water splitting

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 124
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.22
Email: miaoyuanyuan20161202@gmail.com
 

Lylia AMIRACHE

Funding: Bourse profas b+ 14 mois (Campus France)
13 novembre 2017 - 19 janvier 2019

Title of thesis: Dégradation des polluants organiques par des procédés d'oxydation avancés en phase hétérogène
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Fatiha-Barka Bouaifel (University of Béjaia, Algéria)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 128
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.22
Email: amirachelylia@yahoo.fr

 


Vladyslav MISHYN

Funding: ED SPI 
1st of October, 2018 - 30th of September, 2021

Supervisors: Prof. Szunerits, Prof. Happy and Prof. Knoll
Title of htesis: Development of advanced electrical and electrochemical biosensors based on graphene materials for detection of biomarkers of various diseases

Location:  CAMPUS Haute-Borne, Room 128  
E-mail: vladyslav.mishyn@univ-lille.fr 

 

Anna Voronova

Funding: I-SITE ULNE project
12 November 2018 - 11 November 2021

Title of thesis: Photothermal delivery of drugs through the skin
Supervisors: Sabine Szunerits, Amar Abderrahmani 

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 109
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.83
E-mail:annvoronova@ukr.net; anna.voronova.etu@univ-lille.fr

 

Cristina- Cassiana ANDREI

Funding : DGA + Ecole Polytechnique/ Université Paris- Saclay
01 October 2016-30 September 2019

Title of thesis: Direct and selective detection of bacteria using surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) imaging
Supervisor: Anne-Chantal Gouget-Laemmel (Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), Sabine Szunerits

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 124
Phone:  +33 (0)3.62.53.17.28
Fax : +33 (0)3.62.53.17.01
E-mail: cassiana.andrei@polytechnique.edu

 

Patrik ASPERMAIR

Funding: AIT Austria
01 January 2016-31 August 2019

Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits, Wolfgang Knoll (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria)
co-tutell agreement: University Lille 1, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Univeristy
Title of thesis: Aptamer Sensor for small analytes based on graphene FETS and plasmon optics

Email: patrik.aspermair@gmail.com

 

 

Nabila BERKANE

Financement: Tizi Ouzou, Algérie
01.12.2017 - 30.12. 2018

Title of thesis: Développement et caractérisation de nouveaux matériaux pour l'élimination des polluants organiques en solution aqueuse.
Supervisor: Meziane Smail (Université de Tizi Ouzou, Algérie), Rabah Boukherroub (IEMN, Uni. Lille, France)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, salle 128
Phone: +33 (0)7.51.82.31.78
Email:  berkane.nabila@gmail.com

 

 

Milica BUDIMIR

Funding: French goverment
01.10.2016-30.09.2019

Title of thesis : Antibacterial properties of graphene/polymer nanocomposites
co-tutell agreement: University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering, Serbia+ Lille 1 University
supervior: Rabahy Boukherroub, Milos Vujisic (University of Belgrad)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 123
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.28
E-mail: mickbudimir@gmail.com

 

Li CHENGNAN

Funding: Chinese Government Scholarship
01 October 2015-01 April 2019

Title of thesis: Nanomaterials in biological applications
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits

Location: Campus haute Borne, room 129
Phone: +33 (0)6 70 23 89 27
Email: li.chengnan90@gmail.com

 

Min LI

Funding: China Scholarship Council
01.10.2017 - 01.10.2020

Title of thesis:  Composite materials for high-performance supercapacitors
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 118
Phone: +33 (0)6.47.34.66.43
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.22
Email: liminlille1@gmail.com

 

 

Aleksandra LOCZECHIN

Funding: Uni. Lille  and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Germany)
01 October 2016-01 September 2019

Title of thesis: Carbon nanodots as anti-microbial and anti-viral alternatives
co-tutell agreement: University Lille 1, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (Germany)
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits, Nils Metzler-Nolte (Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)

Location: Campus haute Borne, room 128
Phone: +33 (0)6 70 23 89 26
Email:loczechin.a@gmail.com

 

 

Noura HAZIME

Funding:Lebanese Government Scholarship
1 November 2016- 30 October 2019

Title of thesis: Potentiation of colistin by the bacteriocins, then the asset and administration of colistin alone or in combination with the bacteriocins in (50-100 nm) nanoparticles and microspheres (5-20 µm) at base of alginate.
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub and Djamel Drider (Polytechnique Lille 1)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 129
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.27
Mobile:+33(0)6.51.42.32.96
E-mail : noura.hazimee.@hotmail.fr

 

Ioana Silvia HOSU

Funding: University Lille 1 and DGA
01.10.2015-01.10.2018

Title of thesis: Ultrasensitive detection of abrin and ricin by an innovative sensor graphene-based, combining SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance) and MS (Mass Spectrometry)
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Yannick Coffinier

Location: IEMN, Room 243
Phone: +33 (0)3.20.19.79.34
Mobile:  +33 (0)7.58.33.17.91
E-mail: ioanasilvia.hosu@ed.univ-lille1.fr

 

Liuqing PANG

Funding: China Scholarship Council
01.10. 2017 - 01.10. 2020

Title of thesis: Preparation of high performance nanomaterials for solar steam  generation and hydrogen evolution
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 118
Phone: +33 (0)7.67.20.28.58
Mobile: +33 (0)6.48.10.55.86
Email: pangliuqing2017@gmail.com

 

Léa ROUSSEL

Funding: CIFRE
4 Septembre 2018 - 4 Septembre 2021

Title of thesis: Antibiotics-loaded skin patches for the treatment of skin infection
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits et Nadia Skandrani (TissueAegis)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 129
Mobile: +33 (0)6.37.27.86.58  
E-mail : lea.rosselle.etu@univ-lille.fr

 

 

 

Abir SWAIDAN

Funding: Lebanese Government Scholarship
1 November 2016- 30 October 2019

Title of thesis: Patches à base de graphène pour un relargage thermique de principes actifs
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub and Salah Hamieh (Université Libanaise, Beyrouth, Liban)

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 129
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.27
E-mail : abir.swaidan.90@gmail.com

 

 

Yuan ZHANG

Funding: from China Scholarship Council (CSC)
1 October 2016 to 31 September  2020 (48 months)

Title of thesis: Preparation  of F doped rGO and characterization of its electrochemical properties 
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits

Location: Campus haute Borne, room 129
Phone: +33 (0)3.62.53.17.27
Mobile: +33 (0)6 02140757
Email: yuanzw1990@gmail.com

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Mathias DOLCI

Funding : ANR - 2DPS ( International Collaborative Research Project  France-Singapour)
1 June 2018 to 31 May 2020

Title : Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial-based Metasurfaces for enhanced Plasmonic Sensing

Location: IEMN, cité scientifique, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX
Phone: +33 (0)9.52.21.18.29
Mobile: +33 (0)6.20.96.40.01
Email: mathias.dolci@iemn.univ-lille.fr

 

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VISITING SCIENTISTS

Dr. Fereshteh CHEKIN
Assistant professor

Department of Chemistry, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran

E-mail: fchekin@yahoo.com

 

Dr. Mandana AMIRI (MRSC)
Assistant professor

Department of Chemistry, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran

E-mail:mandanaamiri@uma.ac.ir
Tel (+) 98 33514701
Fax (+) 9833514702
http://uma.ac.ir/cv.php?cv=155&mod=scv&slc_lang=en

 

Dr. Alina VASILESCU
Researcher 

International Centre of Biodynamics, Bucharest, Romania
www.biodyn.ro

E-mail: avasilescu@biodyn,ro

 

Dr. John HT LUONG
Walton Fellow and Professor

Univ Coll Cork, Dept Chem, Analyt & Biol Chem Res Facil, Coll Rd, Cork T12 YN60, Ireland
Univ Coll Cork, Irish Separat Sci Cluster, Innovat Chromatog Grp, Cork, Ireland

Editors: Frontiers Biotechnology Bioengineering-Nanobiotechnology

E-mail: luongprof@gmail.comj.luong@ucc.ie

 

Dr. Ning CAO
Assistant Professor

China University of Petroleum, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Qingdao, China

E-mail: caoning1982@gmail.com

 

 

 

PROJECT STUDENTS

Yassine DRIF
Stagiaire

 04.12.2017 - 26.01.2018

Project: Transdermal delivery
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits, Mr. Chengnan Li

Location: Campus Haute Borne, room 128
Email: yassinure@gmail.com

 

 

 

Neda AKHLAGHI
PhD student

Funding: Ministry of science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran
15 September 2018- 15 June 2019

Title of thesis: Inhibition of beta-lactamase microbial resistance using polymeric nanocomposites
Supervisor: Ghasem Najafpour Darzi (Babol university of Iran) and Sabine Szunerits.  

Location: Campus Haute Borne, Room 111
Phone: +33 (0)7.58.40.45.74
E-mail : Nedaakhlaghi4@gmail.com

 

ALUMNI

Andrea Juliana AGUDELO NINO
ERASMUS Mundus Master

15 June 2017 – 30 September 2017
Supervisors: Sabine SZUNERITS
Project: Pathogen imprinting into sol-gels

E-mail: andreajulianagudelo@gmail.com

 

 

Yacine CHERIFI
PhD student

Funding: 12 month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
1 October 2016- Mars 2017

Title of thesis: Synthèse et caractérisation par voie chimique de nano composites à base de ZnO et leurs testes photo catalytique et piézophotocatalyse.
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub and Ahcène Chaouchi (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, Algeria)

E-mail:yacine.dz15@gmail.com

 

Samia BOULAHNECHE
PhD student

Funding : 18-month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
01 October 2017- 31 Mars 2018

Title of thesis: Graphene for biological applications.
Supervisor : Sabine Szunerits, Mohamed Saleh Medjram (University 20Aout1955-Skikda, Algeria)

E-mail: samia2skikda2009@gmail.com

 

Dr.Paolo ACTIS
PhD Student

01 March 2005- 01September 2008

Funding: INPG fellowship
Supervisor Sabine Szunerits
Title of Thesis: Surface modification and electrochemical characterisation of Boron Doped Diamond (BDD) Electrodes

Present position: Lecturer at the University of Leeds, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Leeds, UK
Phone: +44(0)113 343 4625
P.Actis@leeds.ac.uk

 

Dr. Amer AL-NAFIEY
PhD student

01 December 2011 – 31 December 2015

Funding: Iraq – French governments scholarship
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub,  Brigitte Sieber
Title of thesis: Reduced graphene oxide-based nanocomposites: synthesis, characterization and applications

Present position: Lecturer in University of Babylon, college of science for woman, Iraq
E-mail: amer76z@yahoo.com, wsci.amer.khzaer@uobabylon.edu.iq

 

Khaoula MISSAOUI
PhD student

Funding: Centre de recherches et de technologies de l'energie, laboratoire photovoltaique 
01.10.2017-30.09.2018

Title of thesis : Elaboration and characterization of Bismuth Vanadate (BiVO4) nanoparticles: Photocatalytic Application
supervior: Rabah Boukherroub, Brahim Bessais (university of Carthage,Tunisia)

E-mail:khaoulamissaoui31@gmail.com

 

Sonia AMDOUNI
PhD student

15 November 2013 – 15 december 2013; 15 March 2014 – 30 May 2014; 15 March 2015 – 30 May 2015; 02 May 2016 – 30 June 2016

Funding: Tunisien goverment scholarship (The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology of Tunisia)
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Mohamed Ali Zaibi (University of Tunis Manar)
Title of thesis: Elaboration and characterization of silicon nanostructures: Application in catalysis and photocatalysis

Present position: PhD degree in Physics
E-mail: sonia.amdouni@fst.utm.tn

 

Yasmina BENCHEIKH
PhD student

Funding: 18 month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
08 October 2016- 06 June 2018

Title of thesis: Elaboration and Characterization of Silicon Nanowires for Energy Storage.
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub and Toufik Hadjersi (Research Center In Technology of Semi-Conductors for the Energetics, Algeria)
E-mail:y.optique@yahoo.fr

 

 

Dr. Fatiha BARKA-BOUAIFEL
PhD student

05/04-03/05/2009- 12/10-11/12/2009 -  05/04-04/06/2010- 01/09/2011-31/08/2012 – 02/06-02-07/2013
Funding:  Algerian government scholarship
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Nacer Bezzi (University of Bejaia, Algeria)
Title of thesis: Détection d’interactions moléculaires par LSPR et Utilisation de surfaces semi-conductrices pour la degradation photocatalytique de polluants organiques sous irradiation visible

Present position:  Maitre de conferences A (University of Bejaia, Algeria)
E-mail: fbouaifel2003@yahoo.fr

 

Dr. Hakim  BELKHALFA
PhD student

01 June 2014 – 30 July 2014; 01Otober 2015-15 October 2016

Funding: 18 month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Title of thesis: Elaboration des biocapteurs non enzymatique de glucose à base des nanostructures de Carbone et des Hydroxydes métalliques

Present position: Research fellow in CRAPC center, Algeria
E-mail: kbelkalfa@yahoo.fr

 

Dr. Monaam BEN ALI
PhD student

18 October 2013 – 22 December 2013; 01 April 2014 – 30 June 2014; 15 September 2014 – 15 December 2014; 20 September 2015 – 18 December 2015

Funding: PHC Utique franco-tunisien
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Habib Elhouichet (University of Tunis El Manar , Tunis)
Title of thesis: Synthesis and physical properties of metal oxide nanoparticles: Study of photocatalytic activity

Present position: Post-doc position
E-mail: monaambenali@yahoo.fr

 

Yuanyuan CHENG
PhD student

01 October 2015 – 01 February 2017

Funding: China Scholarship Council
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Wenguo Xu (School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China)
Title of thesis: Synthesis of Superhydrophobic coatings and its application research

Present position: Ph.D candidate in Beijing Institute of Technology
E-mail: yycheng1991@foxmail.com

 

 

Dr. Kiran Kumar CHEREDDY
Master student

 01 February 2012 - 30 June 2016
Funding:  Erasmus Mundus scholarship
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Title of project:  Surface functionalized nanoparticles for gene delivery 
Present position: Project Manager in Novartis Pharmaceuticals
E-mail:  kiran.chereddy@novartis.com
 weblink: be.linkedin.com/in/kiranchereddy/

 

Dr. Manash R. DAS
Post-doctoral Reseacher

01 May 2007 to 01 April 2008

Funding:  ANR (National Research Agency), France
Supervisor: Dr. Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Nanostructured boron-doped diamond surfaces for applications in biosciences

Present Position: Scientist, Materials Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, India; Assistant Professor: Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), India
Email: mnshrdas@yahoo.com, mrdas@neist.res.in
Website link: http://www.neist.res.in/1081.php

 

Alexandra DEMETER

01 June 2013 to 31 September 2013

Funding: Erasmus grant
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Synthesis of molybdenum clusters-loaded lipid nanocapsules

Present position: Erasmus Student
E-mail: alexandra_demeter@yahoo.com

 

 

Dr. Stefan-Ovidiu DIMA
Visiting Scientist

02 October 2014 – 30 November 2014

Funding: Project CERES 159/2014 and Brancusi project Phthalcyanine-Graphene Microsensors 707/2013, ANCS-UEFISCDI, Romania
Supervisors: Sabine Szunerits, Julie Bouckaert, Florin Oancea
Subject:  Biosensors and chemosensors using SPR

Present position: Senior Researcher, Bioresources Dpt., INCDCP-ICECHIM Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: phd.ovidiu.dima@gmail.com

 

Dr. Ouarda FELLAHI
PhD student

03 October 2010 – 31 March 2012

Funding: Algerian goverment scholarship
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Élaboration de nanofils de silicium par gravure chimique assistée par un métal : caractérisation et application en photocatalyse hétérogène de l’oxyde de graphène, du chrome (VI) et de la rhodamine B

Present position: Master of Research – class A, wat the Semiconductor Technologies Research Center for Energy/CRTSE/Algeria
E-mail: fellahiouarda@crtse.dz
 

Dr. V Ramireddy DEVARAPALLI
PhD student

01November 2014 to 26 April, 2015

Funding: Raman-Charpak fellowship
Supervisor: Dr. Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Silicon nanowires micro-supercapacitors

Present position: Sr. Scientist, Halliburton Technology Centre, India.
E-mail: ramireddydeverapalli@gmail.com

 

Dr. Mehdi HAMDI
Post-doctoral student
 

Funding: University of Lille 1 (CPER “Photonics for Society”).

I received my PhD in Human Physiopathology from the University of Picardie J. Verne (Amiens, France) in June 2012. Focus of mythesis was to study molecular mechanisms involving hEag1 K+ channels in breast cancer metastasis. I joined the laboratory in March 2016 as a postdoctoral fellow to develop nanotechnology methods targeting ion channels, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Cell Physiology (INSERM U1003).

E-mail: mehdi.h28@gmail.com

 

Dr. Lijie  HE
Visiting Scientist

01 April 2015 to 31 August 2015

Funding: Golda Meir Fellowship
Supervisors: Daniel Mandler, Sabine Szunerits
Project: Graphene as sensing matrix for anti-cancer marker detection

Present position: Research fellow in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
E-mail: lijie.he05@yahoo.com
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lijie-he-b1237b84/

 

Karima KAHLOUCHE
PhD student

Funding: 18 month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
1 October 2016- Mars 2017

Title of thesis: Study and development of biosensors for pathogen bactéria detection.
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, G.Herlem, R.Yahiaoui, F.Merhoune (Université UFC, France, Université UATL, Algeria)

E-mail: karimachimie@gmail.com

 

Dr. Izabela KAMINSKA
PhD student

15 March 2011 to 15  March 2012

Funding: Foundation for Polish Science 
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Marcin Opallo (Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Science)
Title of thesis: Preparation and applications of platforms based on gold nanoparticles and graphene

Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at TU Braunschweig in Germany, NanoBioSciences group headed by prof. Philip Tinnefeld
Email: i.kaminska@tu-braunschweig.de

 

 

Dr. Manakamana KHANAL
PhD student

01 February 2011 – October 2014

Funding:Region Nord-Pas-de Calais
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Thesis titel:Functional nanoparticles for biological applications.

Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow in National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health
Email: mana.khanal@nih.gov / manakamana.khanal@outlook.com

 

 

Dr. Pawan KUMAR
PhD student

17 December 2014 – 10 June 2015

Funding: Raman Charpak Fellowship
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Title of thesis: Metallic clusters as visible light active photoredox catalysts for CO2 activation

Present position: Post-doctoral position in RCPTM, Palacky University, Czech Republic
E-mail: choudhary.2486pawan@yahoo.in

 

 

Dr. Florian LAPIERRE
PhD student

01 September 2007 – 30 March 2011

Funding: French government
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Vincent Thomy
Subject: Electrowetting on Dielectric: design and realisation of sophisticated microfluidic devices on superhydrophobic surfaces

Present position: ARC Research Fellow
E-mail: florian.lapierre@utas.edu.au

 

Dr. Houcem MAAOUI
PhD student

01 April 2015 – 31 July 2016

Funding: Tunisien goverment scholarship (The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology of Tunisia)
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Radouane Chtourou (University of Tunis Manar, Tunisia)
Title of thesis: Synthesis of nanoparticles and carbon nanoparticles for photothermal therapy and electrochimical detection

E-mail: Houcemmaaoui@gmail.com
 

 

 

Dr.Cornelia MARINESCU
PhD student

29 August 2015 – 27 November 2015

Funding: French government scholarship (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères)
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Effects of the Au and Pd noble metals on the environmental remediation performances of the TiO2 nanocrystals obtained by hydrothermal and sol-gel methods

Present position: Scientific researcher at Institute of Physical Chemistry 'Ilie Murgulescu', Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: alcorina@chimfiz.icf.ro

 

Dr. Ievgen MAZURENKO
Visiting Scientist

10 June 2013 – 10 August 2013

Funding: EU Project FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES
Supervisors: Sabine Szunerits
Subject: Electrode functionalization for detection of peptides

Present position: Post-doc position in Laboratory of Bioenergetics and Protein Engineering (Marseille, France)
E-mail: imazurenko@imm.cnrs.fr

 

 

Fatsah MOULAI
PhD student

02 May 2015 – 15 June 2016

Funding: University of Bejaia – Algeria
Supervisors: R. Boukherroub, B. Messaoudi (Univ. Bejaia-Dz, Algeria),
Title of thesis: Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) modified with Mn-oxide, PB and GO for supercapacitors and photocatalytic applications

Present position: PhD Student & Researcher in CRTSE
E-mail: moulaifatsah@gmail.com
Mobile: +213 542 864 953

 

Dr. Joanna NIEDZIOLKA-JONSSON
Post-doctoral researcher

12 January 2009 to 11 July 2009   

Funding: PHC (France-Poland)
Subject: Synthesis of metallic nanostructurs, their functionalisation and applications for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) studies.
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits

Present position: Associate Professor (Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences; Leader of the Surface Nanoengineering Group)
E-mail: jniedziolka@ichf.edu.pl

 

Leyla SAIDI
PhD

Funding: Scholarship PROFAS B+
18 december 2017 - 31 july 2018

Title of thesis: Electrochemical deposition of thin films of oxides for applications as anodes materials in direct fuel cells, photovoltaic, photocatalysis
Supervisors: Haoua HAMMACHE (University of Bejaia, Algeria), Rabah BOUKHERROUB
Email: lsaidi@hotmail.fr

 

 

Dr. Gaëlle OFFRANC PIRET
PhD student

01 February 2006 to 31 September 2009,

Funding: DGA
Supervisor: Rabah Boukheroub
Title of thesis: Silicon nanowires for a sensitive biomolecules mass spectrometry analysis and for cells fluidic localization : towards lab on chip and biochip applications.

Present position: Researcher at INSERM U1205 (Braintech Laboratory, Grenoble)
Email: gaelle.offranc-piret@inserm.fr

 

 

Yavuz OZ
PhD student

01 June 2016 – 31 September 2016

Funding: PANG Project
Supervisior: Sabine Szunerits
Subject: Functionalizable rGO Nanocomposites for Drug Delivery Applications

Present Position: Teaching Asistant, Bogazici Universitry, Turkey
E-mail: yavuz.oz1@boun.edu.tr

 

Gangadhara Rao SALAPATI
Master Student

01 May 2015 – 31 October 2015

Funding: USTL
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Subject of Master thesis: Gold Nanorods based photothermal Therapy

Present position: Currently searching for PhD position
E-mail: gangadharsalapati@gmail.com

 

 

Dr. Manjusha V. SHELKE
Post-doctoral researcher

01 January 2007 to 31 December 2008  

Funding: Embassy of France in India
Supervisor:Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Self assembly, Nanomaterials

Present position: Senior Scientist (CSIR-NCL, Pune, India)
E-mail: mv.shelke@ncl.res.in
personal webpage: http://academic.ncl.res.in/mv.shelke 

 

Dr. Marta SIEK
PhD student

12 November 2013 – 12 December 2013, 03 February 2014 – 03 March 2014

Funding: EU programme NOBLESSE (FP7-REGPOT-CT-2011-285949-NOBLESSE)
Supervisors: Joanna Niedziolka-Jonsson, Sabine Szunerits
Subject: Electrochemical preparation of Ag- and Au-based plasmonic platforms

Present position: Post-doc position in Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski group at Center for Soft and Living Matter IBS/UNIST (Ulsan, South Korea)
E-mail: marta.siek@o2.pl

 

 

Dr. Santosh SINGH
PhD student

11 January 2016 – 8 July 2016

Funding: Raman-Charpak Fellowship
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Title of thesis: Modified Cobalt Oxide/N-doped Graphene Composite Electrocatalysts for Energy Applications

Present Position:  PhD at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Email: santosh.bhu86@gmail.com

 

Dr. Nadia SKANDRANI
PhD student

01 October 2011 – 30 September 2014

Funding: French Scholarship
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Hatem Boulahdour (Université de Franche-Comté,  Besançon, France)
Title of thesis: Développement de nanocapsules lipidiques pour la vectorisation de principes actifs

Present position: CEO of TissueAegis SAS
E-mail: skandrani.nadia@gmail.com

 

 

Dr. Stefka STANCHEVA
PhD student

01 December 2012 to 13 January 2016
Funding:   Bourse CIFRE (PFI Nouvelles Vagues)
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Sami Souissi (LOG, Wimereux)
Title of thesis:   Etude de l’interaction entre nanoparticules et les copépodes     

Present position: Consultant (Management de l'innovation en recherche d'opportunités, ‎Efficient Innovation, Bordeaux)
E-mail: stancheva.stefka@gmail.com

 

Ahmed SOLIMAN
Stage

01 April 2013 – 02 June 2013

Funding: French government scholarship
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Subject: Synthesis of nanodiamonds for biological applications

Present position: Aerospace Materials Engineer
E-mail: soliman.ahmed17@gmail.com

 

Dr. Palaniappan SUBRAMANIAN
Post-doctoral researcher

01 March 2011 – 01 December 2013

Funding: European Union (Marie Curie ITN project)
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Subject: Surface modification of diamond electrodes

Present position: Post-doctoral Research Associate - EC&FC Team, Ariel University, 40700 Ariel, Israel
E-mail: palam83@gmail.com

 

Dr. János TAMAS PADRA
Visiting scientist

01 March 2017 – 31 March 2017

Funding: PANG Project
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Subject: SPR analysis of bacterial binding to host mucins at various flow-rates

Present position: Post-doctoral position in the field of Biochemistry and Cell biology
E-mail: janos.tamas.padra@gu.se

 

Dr. Florina TEODORESCU
Post-doctoral Researcher

01 November 2014 – 01 October 2016

Funding:  Nord Pas-de-Calais Picardie Region
Supervisors: Dr. Rabah Boukherroub, Prof. Sabine Szunerits
Title of thesis: Nanocomposite materials based on graphene – Synthesis, characterization and applications

Present position: Scientific researcher III - Institute of Physical Chemistry Ilie Murgulescu of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail: fteodorescu@icf.ro; floriteodora@yahoo.com

 

Dr. Kostiantyn TURCHENIUK
Post-doctoral Researcher

01 September 2013 – 31 August 2015

Funding: Région Nord Pas de Calais
Supervisor: Sabine Szunerits
Subject:  Nanostructured materials for biomedical applications

Present position: Post-doctoral associate at Georgia Institute of Technology
E-mail: k.turcheniuk@gmail.com

 

Dr. Volodymyr TURCHENIUK
PhD student

18 september 2013 - 15 may 2015

Funding:  Scholarship of France Embassy in Ukraine
Supervisors: Sabine Szunerits, Volodymyr Zaitsev  (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , Ukraine)
Title of thesis: Functionalization and modification of nanoparticles and their biomedical application 

Present position: Seniour researcher in "Enamine Ltd.", Ukraine
E-mail: v.turcheniuk@gmail.com

 

Dr. Guo-Hui PAN
Post-doctoral Researcher

09 September 2010 – 09 September 2012

Funding: Région Nord – Pas-de-Calais
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Application des Quantum Dots de silicium à l’étude du développement et de la cancérogénèse chez le poisson-zèbre

Present position: Research Associate in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
E-mail: pangh@ciomp.ac.cn

 

Dr.Diana ZAHARIE-BUTUCEL
PhD student

01 October 2015 – 30 November 2015

Funding: Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development 2007–2013, co-financed by the European Social Fund, under the project POSDRU/187/1.5/S/155383 - “Quality, excellence, transnational mobility in doctoral research”
Supervisors: Sabine Szunerits, Simion Astilean (ICI-BNS Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Subject: Carbon nanostructures: synthesis, characterization, sensing applications

Present position: PhD in Nanobiophotonics group, ICI-BNS Cluj-Napoca, Romania
E-mail: dzaharieb@gmail.com

 

Dr. Mei WANG
PhD student

31 Augsut 2007 – 10 June 2009

Funding: China Scholarship Council Award
Supervisors:  Rabah Boukerroub, Musen Li (Shandong University, China)
Title of thesis: Covalent functionalization of boron-doped diamond electrodes for bisensor applications

Present position: Associate Professor, Shandong University, China
E-mail: : wm8312@gmail.com

 

 

Dr. Qi WANG
PhD student

15 September 2010 – 17 December 2013

Funding: China Scholarship Council Award
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits
Title of thesis: Carbon-based materials: preparation, functionalization and applications

Present position: Lecturer in School of Material Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China
E-mail: wangqi1016@sdu.edu.cn

 

 

 

Dr. Qian WANG
PhD student

18 September 2013 – 24 October 2016

Funding: Chinese scholarship council award
Supervisors: Rabah Boukherroub, Sabine Szunerits
Title of thesis: Carbon-based materials: application in electrochemical sensing

Present position: Assistant research fellow in Shandong University, China
E-mail: qian.wang@sdu.edu.cn

 

 

 

Dr. H. Hasan YOLCU
Visiting Professor

01 September 2012 – 01 August 2013

Funding: Council of Turkish Higher Education
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub
Subject: Preparation of graphene based hybrid material and investigation of its photocatalytic properties

Present position: Assistant Professor, Kafkas University, Turkey
E-mail: yolcu.hasan@gmail.com

 

Merve ASLAN
PhD student, visiting scientist

01 July 2017 – 31 September 2017

Funding: PANG project
Supervisors: Sabine SZUNERITS, Amitav SANYAL (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)

E-mail: merve.aslan1@boun.edu.tr

 

 

Laura CHAMBRE
PhD student, visiting scientist

01 July 2017 – 31 September 2017

Funding: PANG project
Supervisors: Sabine SZUNERITS, Amitav SANYAL (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)

E-mail: laura.chambre@gmail.com

 

 

 

Fatima HALOUANE
PhD student

Funding : 12-month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
16 November 2016- 15 October2017

Title of thesis: Elaboration et fonctionnalisation de matériaux hybrides –application à l’environnement.
Supervisor : Sabine Szunerits, Dalial Meziana (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, Algeria)

E-mail: f.halouane@yahoo.com

 

Salim MOKTHARI
PhD student

Funding: 8 month scholarship (Profs B+, Algeria)
1 November 2016- 30 June 2017

Title of thesis: Elaboration de α-Fe2O3 pour application en production d’hydrogène par la photolyse de l’eau
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub and Nahad Dokane(University M Bougara, Algeria)

E-mail:salimmokhtari45@yahoo.fr

 

Yasmine TADJENAT
PhD student

Funding: 11 month scholarship (PNE, Algeria)
15 December 2016 to 15 November 2017

Titel of thesis: Elaboration de nanostructures de ZnO fonctionnalisées et étude de leurs proprités photo-catalytique.
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Nahed Dokhan (Uni. Boumerdez, Algeria)

Email: ytadjenant@gmail.com 

 

Dr. Saher RAHMANI
ATER

01.09.2017-31.08.2018

E-mail: saher.rahmani@etu.umontpellier.fr

 

 

 

Abderrahmane HAMDI
PhD student

Funding:The Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology of Tunisia
1 June 2015- 31 October 2017

Title of thesis: Treatment of nanostructured silicon for environmental and biological sensors
Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Yannick Coffinier, Hatem Ezzaouia (University of Carthage, Tunisia)

E-mail:abderrahmane.hamdi@iemn.univ-lille1.fr

 

Faouzia KHILI
PhD student

03 June 2013 to 31 august 2016; 01 September 2014 to 25 January 2015 ; 01 September 2015 to 25 January 2016

Funding: Tunisian goverment scholarship

Supervisor: Rabah Boukherroub, Amel Dakhlaoui (Université de Carthage, Tunisia)
Title of thesis: Synthesis and functionalization of nanocellulose and applications of nanocomposites  materials: nanocrystalline cellulose / graphene, nanocellulose, nanocrystalline / graphene / copper nanoparticles and nanocellulose / cobalt oxide nanoparticles

E-mail: khilifaouzia@yahoo.fr , faouziakhili@gmail.com

 

 

Dr. Roxana JIJIE

Funding: EU project (Graphitivity)

I received my PhD in Physics and Materials Science from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and Universié Lille 1 – Science et Technologies, France in October 2016. Focus of the thesis were synthesis and characterization of complex nano-structures to mediate the behavior of biological entities.

E-mail: roxanajijie@yahoo.com