Degree awarded

Zhang Xinyue has been awarded a PhD degree for her thesis “Heat-Induced Restructuring in Carbon Monolayers and AuAg Plasmonic Nanoparticles”. Excellent work, congratulations, Dr. Zhang!

​Xinyue is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in our group.

PhD Qualifying Examination

Zheng He has successfully completed her PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

PhD Qualifying Examination

Nikolai Lavrentev has successfully completed his PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

Position Awarded

Our alumnus Dr. Yu Yong obtained a position as full Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, starting in 2025. Congratulations, Yong! 

Position Awarded

Our alumna Dr. Leyi Loh starts as Newton International Fellow in the group of Prof. Manish Chhowalla in Cambridge. Congratulations, Joy!  

Degree Awarded

Hue Do has been awarded a PhD degree for her thesis, titled "Quantitative Electron Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale Dynamics of Plasmons". Wonderful work; congratulations Dr. Đỗ!

Hue is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in our group.

Teaching Excellence Award 2024

Michel has been awarded the College of Design and Engineering Teaching Excellence Award 2024. Thanks go out to all the student in my classes for their positive feedback and for nominating me for the award! The University Teaching Excellence Committee is also kindly thanked for their support.

PhD Qualifying Examination

Su Hongxi successfully completed his PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

STEM-EELS Conference

Abstract submission to EDGE 2024 has opened;

See https://www.energyloss.org/

Poster Award

Su Hongxi was awarded the Best Poster Presentation Award from IMC20, the International Microscopy Conference in Busan, Korea. Congratulations!

PhD Qualifying Examination

He Ya successfully completed her PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

Mentorship Award

Michel has been awarded the SMP Outstanding Mentor Award 2022, awarded by the Ministry of Education, as one of only two awardees in NUS. For this, credit goes to Jagadesh and Hue, who have both done a fantastic job in guiding the Junior College students in the past years, inspiring a new generation of scientists and engineers!

Degree Awarded

Yu Yong has been awarded a PhD degree for his thesis, titled "Correlating Thermoelectric Properties to Nanostructures by Advanced STEM/TEM Techniques". Fantastic work; Congratulations! 

Yu Yong is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in our group.

Degree Awarded

Loh Leyi has been awarded a PhD degree for her thesis, titled "Impurity Doping and Bound Exciton Complexes in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides". Fantastic work; Congratulations! 

Loh Leyi is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Goki Eda's group.

PhD Qualifying Examination

Yang Jianmin successfully completed her PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

Thesis Accepted 

Dionaldo Zudhistira’s thesis “TEM sample Preparation Techniques Development for Advanced ICs Including FINFETs” was accepted. Great work - congratulations! Dion will continue his cutting-edge work on physical failure analysis at AMD Singapore.

PhD Qualifying

Examination 

Jagadesh Rangaraj successfully completed his PhD Qualifying Examination. Congratulations!

NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2022 

Michel has been awarded the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2022. Thank you to all the students who provided positive feedback to modules MLE4212 (Advanced Structural Materials) and MLE5216 (Introduction to Microscopy for Materials Research); the University Teaching Excellence Committee is also kindly thanked for their support.

Degree Awarded 

Chung JingYang has been awarded a PhD degree for his thesis, titled "Atomic-Scale Structural and Luminescence Imaging of Indium-rich III-Nitride Light Emitters". Fantastic work; Congratulations! 

Jing Yang is now a Research Fellow in the NUS-Advanced Materials Corporate Lab.

PhD Qualifying Examination

Zhang Xinyue successfully completed her PhD Qualifying Examination; Congratulations!

Best Mentorship Award

Congratulations to Hue Do in our group for receiving the "Outstanding Mentorship Award" from the Singapore Mentorship Program 2020 awarded by the Ministry of Education. Hue mentored three students from the Raffles Institute in their study of hot electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures. 

Best

Poster Award

Congratulations to JingYang in our group for winning the first place in Poster presentation at the 9th MRS-S Conference on Advanced Materials.