
nanoFRET team

A diverse group with creative visions
Head of the research group
Niko Hildebrandt, PhD, Professor
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Nano-Optical Biosensing and Molecular Diagnostics – since September 2023
e-mail: hildebrandt@mcmaster.ca
Office: JHE A322
Group members
- Anton Trinh, MSc – since July 2024
- Ramis Imran Arbi, PhD – since June 2024
- Muhammad Munir, PhD – postdoc since January 2024
- Andrea Lizette Larraga, PhD – postdoc since May 2024
- Lucie Haye, PhD – postdoc since May 2024
- Ramis Imran Arbi, PhD – postdoc since June 2024
- Eduard Madirov, PhD – postdoc since November 2024
- Anne Nsubuga, PhD – postdoc since January 2025
- Liping Song, MSc – PhD student since January 2024
- Marianna Switchuk, BSc, MD, CCFP – PhD student since May 2024
- Jianan Liu, MSc – PhD student since June 2024
- Arthur Charasson, MSc – PhD student since September 2024
- Daniel Źatko, MSc – PhD student since September 2024
- Albert Ashong, MSc – PhD student since January 2025
- Ziyue (Joyce) Xie, BSc – Master student since January 2024
- Yiru Huo, BSc – Master student since May 2024 (group member since January 2024)
- Sasha Morano, BSc – Master student since January 2025 (group member since February 2024), co-supervised with Todd Hoare
- Keegan Howden, BSc – Master student since September 2024, co-supervised with Katherine Bujold
- Rongfei Zhang, BSc – Master student since September 2024
- Joanna El Solakhy, BSc – Master student since January 2025, co-supervised with Tohid Didar
- Emma Hämäläinen, BSc – Master student since February 2025, co-supervised with Alex Adronov
- Ahmed Khalil – Research assistant since February 2024
- Hardiv Patel – Research assistant since May 2024
- Julian Chan – Research assistant since September 2024
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Former group members

Benjamin Hötzer, PhD — Postdoc (May 2011 – January 2012)
Phung Thi Lanh, MSc — Master student (April – August 2012)
Giacomo Annio, MSc — Master student (May – August 2013)
Philipp Bastian, PhD — Bachelor student (June – August 2013)
Gaurav Das — Bachelor student (July – August 2013)
Zongwen Jin, PhD, Professor — Postdoc (April 2011 – March 2014)
Honghua Quan, MSc — Technician (October 2011 – March 2014)
Guillaume Bienvenu le Noé — Master student (May – June 2014)
Oya Tagit, PhD — Postdoc (April 2012 – September 2014)
Malak Safi, PhD — Postdoc (February 2014 – January 2015)
Olivier Levebvre, PhD — Master student (April 2014 – April 2015)
Stina Lindén, PhD — PhD student (December 2011 – June 2015)
David Wegner, PhD — PhD student (December 2010 – June 2015)
Jeanne Hurpin — Internship technician (October – November 2015)
Yohei Ishida, PhD, Professor — Visiting professor (November 2015 – January 2016)
Marta Garcia Cortés, PhD — Visiting PhD Student (September – December 2015 + April – July 2016)
Hamsika Parimi, MSc — Master and PhD student (January – June 2015 + November 2015 – July 2016)
Mohammad Amjadi, PhD, Professor — Visiting professor (October 2015 – August 2016)
Sara Linares Aguayo — Master student (June – August 2016)
Xavier Zambrana Puyalto, PhD — Visiting postdoc (Jan – Feb 2017)
Manh Hung Hoang — Master student (April – July 2017)
Hortense Bartenlian — Bachelor student (April – July 2017)
Nicola Reinhard — Bachelor student (September – November 2017)
Shashi Bhuckory, PhD — Master+PhD student and Postdoc (April 2012 – December 2017)
Gabriel Ribeiro Dos Santos — Master student (September 2017 – February 2018)
Akram Yahia-Ammar, PhD — Postdoc (March 2015 – March 2018)
Lucía Labrador Páez, PhD — Visiting PhD student (April – July 2018)
Nicola Peruffo, MSc — Master student (April – August 2018)
Yu-Tang Wu, PhD — PhD Student (September 2014 – September 2018)
Ella Chan Huot — High School Intern (December 2018)
Carlos Mingoes, MSc — Master student and Research Engineer (March 2017 – December 2018)
Alexandra Petreto, PhD — PhD student (March 2016 – February 2019)
Meryem Sennad, MSc — Technician (May 2017 – February 2019)
Mariia Dekaliuk, PhD — Postdoc (July 2017 – February 2019 & November 2019 – August 2022)
Tudor Haruta — Master student and Technician (June 2016 – February 2019)
Maïté Do Vale, MSc — Research Engineer (May 2018 – February 2019)
Nassim Anis Ahmine, MSc — Master Student (February 2019)
Paulina Miszkiel — Visiting student (February – March 2019)
Sylwia Mauryc — Visiting student (February – March 2019)
Tooba Hallaj, PhD — Visiting Postdoc (August 2018 – March 2019)
Rahma Cheour, MSc — Master student (May – June 2019)
Thomas Plénat, PhD — Postdoc (February 2018 – June 2019)
Jiajia Guo, PhD — PhD student (October 2015 – August 2019)
Bilguissou Diallo, MSc — Master student (February – July 2019)
Xue Qiu, PhD, Professor — PhD student, Postdoc, and Senior Researcher (October 2011 – July 2019)
Chi Chen, PhD — PhD student (October 2016 – September 2019)
Marcelina Cardoso Dos Santos, PhD — Postdoc and Senior Researcher (May 2015 – September 2019)
Zdeněk Farka, PhD — Visiting Postdoc (November – December 2019)
Vjona Cifliku, PhD — PhD student (March 2017 – June 2020)
Jingyue Xu, PhD — PhD student (October 2016 – July 2020)
Amadou Ba — Bachelor student (July 2020)
Mathilde-Hà Lasnon — Master student (August – October 2021)
Laura Francés Soriano, PhD — Postdoc (November 2017 – December 2021)
Huijun Fu, PhD — PhD student (December 2020 – March 2022)
Przemysław Jurczak, PhD — Visiting postdoc (April 2022 – September 2022)
Vittoria Andrigo, BSc — ERASMUS+ visiting student (April 2023 – May 2023)
Marco Pagan, BSc — Internship student (June to August 2023)
Ruifang Su, PhD — PhD student (December 2020 – December 2023)
Federico Pini, PhD — PhD student (October 2020 – March 2024)
Peremobowei Iyanu Diriwari, PhD — PhD student (January 2021 – March 2024)
Nour Fayad, MSc — PhD student (September 2021 – December 2024)
Anne Nsubuga, PhD — Postdoc (May 2022 – December 2024)
Carmen Gonzalez-Garcia, PhD — Postdoc (December 2022 – February 2024)
Samir Kumar Pal, PhD — Visiting Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India (April 2024)
Geo H. Chan Huot — High School intern (June 2024)
Johnny Malcolm — Research assistant (October 2023 – August 2024)
Hannah Fabik — Research assistant (November 2023 – August 2024)
Quang Thai Duong Bui, BSc — Master student (June – September 2024) and research assistant (September – December 2024)
Group outings

