People
Group leader:
Prof. Jesse Maassen
Jesse Maassen is an Associate Professor of Physics at Â鶹´«Ã½. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Engineering Physics from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, followed by a PhD in Physics from McGill University. After working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrical Engineering department at Purdue University, he began his faculty appointment at Dal.
Group members:
Dr. Vahid Askarpour
Research associate
First-principles simulations of electronic and thermal transport in materials
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Qinxin Zhu
Graduate student
Thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale devices
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Mohammad Rafiee Diznab
Graduate student
First-principles modeling of 2D thermoelectrics
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Ethan Gysbertsen
Graduate student
First-principles analysis of inorganic electrides
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Peter Lake
Undergraduate
Nonlinear bulk electron transport
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Former members:
Dr. Maha Bhouri
Postdoctoral Fellow (with Prof. Dominic Groulx)
Theoretical & finite-element modeling of transient heat transfer
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Fouad Kaadou
Graduate student
First-principles analysis of inorganic electrides
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Patrick Strongman
Graduate student
First-principles modeling of thermal transport in quasi-2D materials
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Cameron Rudderham
Graduate student
Ab-initio simulations of the thermoelectric properties of non-parabolic, 2D semiconductors
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Braulio Beltran-Pitarch
Visiting graduate student (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Theoretical analysis of impedance spectroscopy applied to thermoelectrics
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James (Luke) Fraser-Leach
Undergraduate
Exploration of the best bandstructure for thermoelectric performance
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Yi Ming Chang
Undergraduate
Nonlinear bulk electron transport Ìý
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Christian Fitzner
Undergraduate
Exploration of the optimal transport distribution for thermoelectric performance
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Ali Binai-motlagh
Undergraduate
DFT calculations of defect formation energies in semiconductors
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Cyrus Robertson-Orkish
Undergraduate
Thermal transport properties of nanoscale 3D heat sources
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Jeremy Peters
Undergraduate
Exact solution of the Boltzmann transport equation for calculating thermoelectric parameters
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Fouad Kaadou
Undergraduate
Joule heating in nanoscale electrical conductors
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William Ounjian
Undergraduate
DFT investigation of inorganic electrides
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Dan Abarbanel
Undergraduate
Ballistic effects in thermal transport
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