November 2025 - Congratulations to Neha Bajaj for winning the best oral presentation award at IDW 2025.
September 2025 - Neha Bajaj successfully defends her PhD, Congratulations Dr. Bajaj!!
September 2025 - Congratulations to Prof. Muralee Murugesu for being elected to the Royal Society of Canada!
July 2025 - We bid farewell to our longtime research associate Dr. Diogo Alves Gàlico, and congratulate him on his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Congratulations, Diogo, you will be missed!
June 2025 - Neha Bajaj wins Honourable Mention in the ChemiSTEAM 2025 competition at CSC 2025 for her artwork "Spinning Up a Dysprosium Nano-Wheel". Congrats, Neha!
June 2025 - Sajid Saikia joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Sajid!
June 2025 - Sajid Saikia joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Sajid!
May 2025 - Adriana Silvestre Llora, a visiting student from the Electronic Structure Group at Universitat de Barcelona, joins the group. Welcome!
Muralee Murugesu begins his new position as Associate Vice President, Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship at uOttawa. Congratulations, Muralee!
Muralee Murugesu begins his new position as Associate Vice President, Innovation, Partnership and Entrepreneurship at uOttawa. Congratulations, Muralee!
March 2025 - We bid farewell to longtime group members Drs. Niki Mavragani and Alexandros Kitos, and wish them the best as they begin their postdoctoral fellowships at the Technical University of Denmark with Prof. Dr. Kasper Pedersen. Congratulations, Niki and Alex, you will be missed!
January 2025 - Sujithkumar Ganesh Moorthy joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Sujith!
November 2024 - Niki Mavragani successfully defends her PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Mavragani!!
September 2024 - Maria Brzozowska, Ao Jiao and Josue Ortega Ramirez join the group as PhD students. Welcome all!
August 2024 - Aylin Nagel, a visiting student from the group of Robert Kretschmer at TU Chemnitz, joins the group. Welcome!
Our paper "Formation of a Decanuclear Organometallic Dysprosium Complex via a Radical-Radical Cross-Coupling Reaction" has been featured in the Angewandte Chemie Hot Topic: C-C Coupling collection! Congrats to Neha and the rest of the team. Visit our Publications page to read it today, and check out the rest of the collection here!
Our paper "Formation of a Decanuclear Organometallic Dysprosium Complex via a Radical-Radical Cross-Coupling Reaction" has been featured in the Angewandte Chemie Hot Topic: C-C Coupling collection! Congrats to Neha and the rest of the team. Visit our Publications page to read it today, and check out the rest of the collection here!
June 2024 - Vajeeha Urunikulavan joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome to the group, Vajeeha!
May 2024 - Antonia Pesch, a visiting student from the group of Annie Powell at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, joins the group. Welcome!
Armando Baca, a visiting student from the group of Skye Fortier at University of Texas @ El Paso, joins the group. Welcome!
Armando Baca, a visiting student from the group of Skye Fortier at University of Texas @ El Paso, joins the group. Welcome!
January 2024 - Essi Barkas, a visiting student from the group of Dr. Jani Moilanen at the University of Jyväskylä, joins the group. Welcome, Essi!
November 2023 - Congratulations to Prof. Muralee Murugesu on receiving prestigious Humboldt-Stiftung research award!
November 2023 - Our paper "Probing the magnetic and magneto-optical properties of a radical-bridged Tb4 single-molecule magnet" has been featured in the Chemical Communications HOT Articles 2023 collection! Congrats to Niki and the rest of the team. Visit our Publications page to read it today, and check out the rest of the collection here!
May 2023 - Bruno Chemel, Rémy Pierron, and Sarah Castang join the group as visiting students from Sigma Clermont. Welcome!
Elliot Jackson joins the group as an undergraduate summer student. Welcome, Elliot!
Elliot Jackson joins the group as an undergraduate summer student. Welcome, Elliot!
December 2022 - Paul Richardson successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations, Dr. Richardson!
August 2022 - We congratulate Walace on his new position as Research Review Officer at Mitacs. Best of luck in your future endeavours, you will be missed!
June 2022 - Claudia Calado joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome, Claudia!
May 2022 - Laurence Yeh joins the group as an M.Sc. student, from Queen's University. Welcome, Laurence!
Airton Germano Bispo Jr. joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Airton!
Airton Germano Bispo Jr. joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome, Airton!
April 2022 - Darren Herweyer successfully defends his M.Sc. Congratulations, Darren!
February 2022 - Christopher Bamforth successfully defends his Ph.D. Congratulations, Dr. Bamforth!
December 2021 - Muralee Murugesu wins the 2022 CIC Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry. A great honour and well-deserved, congratulations Muralee! See the announcement link here.
Muralee Murugesu also wins the Howard Alper Award for Excellence in Research, presented by the University of Ottawa Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences . Congratulations Muralee!
Muralee Murugesu also wins the Howard Alper Award for Excellence in Research, presented by the University of Ottawa Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences . Congratulations Muralee!
September 2021 - Our paper "Radical-Bridged Ln4 Metallocene Complexes with Strong Magnetic Coupling and a Large Coercive Field" has been featured by Angewandte Chemie as a HOT Article! Congrats to Niki and the rest of the team. Visit our publications page to read it today, and check out the press release here!
Neha and Maram join the group as PhD students. Welcome!
Neha and Maram join the group as PhD students. Welcome!
June 2021 - Katie Harriman successfully defends her Ph.D. Congratulations, Dr. Harriman!
May 2021 - Undergraduates Clara Zwanziger, Felix Cob, and Rayan Ramdani join the group as summer students. Welcome to the team!
December 2020 - Our paper "A chelate like no other: exploring the synthesis, coordination chemistry and applications of imidoyl amidine frameworks" has been featured in the Materials Advances HOT Article Collection! Congrats to Alex and Niki. Visit our publications page to read it today, and check out the rest of the collection here!
Our paper "Relaxation Dynamics in See-Saw Shaped Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets" is featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Issue 24! Read it here
Our paper "Relaxation Dynamics in See-Saw Shaped Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets" is featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Issue 24! Read it here
September 2020 - Roberto Diaz-Rodriguez joins the group as a Ph.D. Student, from Dalhousie University. Welcome to the team!
Max Zimmermann joins the group as a volunteer. Welcome, Max!
Max Zimmermann joins the group as a volunteer. Welcome, Max!
MEDIA COVERAGE
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CBC Listen: All in a Day with Alan Neal
"Element of Surprise: Samarium" - aired June 22, 2021. Janice Zinck, Director of NRC's Critical Minerals Division; and Paul Richardson, University of Ottawa PhD Candidate in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry. Listen here. CBC Listen: All in a Day with Alan Neal
"Element of Surprise: Dysprosium" - aired January 5, 2021. Janice Zinck, leader of the national program on Rare Earth Developments in Canada and the director of Green Mining Innovation at Canmet Mining for Natural Resources Canada; and Muralee Murugesu, professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. Listen here. CBC Listen: All in a Day with Alan Neal
"Random periodic table: Praseodymium" - aired January 21, 2019. Dr. Muralee Murugesu, professor of chemistry at the University of Ottawa; and Ahmad Ghahreman, professor of mining engineering and chemical engineering, as well as an expert in rare-earth minerals, at Queen's University. Listen here. |
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