Principal Investigator

Goki Eda

Associate Professor

Dr. Eda received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2006 and Ph.D. in the same discipline from Rutgers University in 2009. He became a Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society of the UK and worked at Imperial College London. Dr. Eda joined the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry, and a member of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials in 2011. He is a recipient of the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Fellowship and many awards including the Singapore National Academy of Science (SNAS) Young Scientist Award, University Young Researcher Award, and IPS Omicron Nanotechnology Award. He is an Associate Editor of npj 2D Materials and Applications.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ivan Verzhbitskiy

Dr. Ivan Verzhbitskiy received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He completed his PhD in 2011 in the group of Prof. M. Chrysos at the University of Angers, France. Later, Dr. Verzhbitskiy was offered a Postdoctoral Associate position in the group of Dr. C. Casiraghi at the Free University Berlin. His research was focused on spectroscopic studying of electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional carbon materials, like graphene, carbon nanotubes or graphene nanoribbons. He joined Prof. Eda’s Research Lab in November 2013.

Junyong Wang

Junyong Wang completed his Ph.D. from the group of Prof. Goki Eda in the physics department, National University of Singapore in 2018. Before that, he received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degree in physics from Nanjing Unversity and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), respectively. His research is focused on optical properties of layered transition metal dichalcogenides and optoelectronic devices based on van der Waals heterostructures.

Zhepeng Zhang

He received his B.Sc. degree in Physics in 2014 from Northwest University. Before join in Prof. Eda’s group as a research fellow in 2019, he received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the Center for Nanochemistry (CNC) of Peking University. His current research is focused on the growth and optical characterization of 2D materials.

Marcelo Barbosa

Dr. Marcelo Barbosa received is B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal. In 2019, he completed is PhD in the same institution but performing most of his work at CERN, Switzerland, where he studied the lattice location and excited electronic states of implanted impurities/dopants in wide band gap semiconductors. He joined Prof. Eda’s Lab in 2020, where his current research is focused on the characterization of single photon emitters in homo- and heterolayered transition metal dichalcogenides.

Ho Yi Wei

Yi Wei (aka Neo) received his B.Sc. in Physics (2015) and Ph.D. (2020) from National University of Singapore. His research interests are on the optical properties of 2D materials, more focusing on the nonlinear optical aspect. He also designs and builds customized microscope systems for optical experiments. He joined Prof. Eda's lab in 2020.

Ph.D. Students

Ng Hong Kuan

Hong Kuan received his B.Sc. in Applied Physics in 2016 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined Prof. Eda’s group in August 2017, focusing on investigating electro-thermal and optical transport in 2D materials.

Justin Zhou Yong

Justin received his B.Sc. in Physics in 2016 from National University of Singapore. He joined Prof. Eda’s group in August 2015. His research focuses on electro-optical properties of nano-materials.

Joy Loh Leyi

Joy received her B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2018 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She joined Prof. Eda’s group in August 2018. Her research is on growth of 2D Transition Metal Dichalchogenides and studying their structure-property relationships under the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM).

Vu Thanh Trung Nam

Nam received his B.Eng. in Engineering Science in 2019 from National University of Singapore. He joined Prof. Eda’s group in August 2019. His research focuses on quantum emitters in 2D materials

Chen Yuan

Chen Yuan received her B.Sc. in Chemistry in 2019 from National University of Singapore. She joined Prof. Eda’s group in Jan 2020. Her research focuses on quantum optics in 2D materials.

Giulio Baldi

Giulio received his B.Sc. in Physics from University of Florence in 2014 and his M.Sc. in Applied Physics from National University of Singapore in 2017. He joined Prof. Eda's group in 2019. His research is focused on photonics, quantum emitters in layered materials and heterostructures.

Wang Zhe

Wang Zhe received his B. Eng. in MSE in 2016 from Taiyuan University of Technology, and M. Eng. in MSE in Harbin Institute of Technology in 2018. He joined Prof. Eda’s group in September 2020. His research interests are in plasmonics, nanofabrication, and van der Waals materials.

Xingjian Sun

Xingjian received his B.Sc. in Physics in 2020 from Lanzhou University. He joined Prof. Eda’s group in Oct 2020. His research focuses on charge transport in 2D ferromagnetic semiconductors. His hobbies include but are not limited to playing table tennis and basketball.

Mingjun Chen

Mingjun (aka Morange) received his B.Eng. in Polymer Science and Engineering in 2020 from South China University of Technology (SCUT) and M.Sc. in Chemistry for Energy and Environment in 2021 from NUS. He joined Prof. Eda's team in 2020 as a Master's student and later as a PhD in August 2021. His research focuses on photoelectric device and photovoltaic effect in 2D materials.

FYP Students

Koh Zun Jie

FYP student from Aug 2020 -

Visitors

Omargeldi Atanov

Omar is currently a final year undergraduate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology majoring in Physics. He will be doing his final year project with Prof. Lortz on topological superconductivity. He joined Prof. Eda's lab for the summer 2018 and worked on numerical simulation of electric field and voltage on semiconductor devices made of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.

Xu Xiaomin

Xiaomin Xu currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Norbert Koch at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Xiaomin has her research interest focused on the physics of organic/inorganic interfaces, particularly the novel heterostructures between organic conjugated molecules and two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides.

Qin Ziyu

Qin Ziyu is working on gas sensors as a PhD student in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests mainly focus on the room-temperature NH3 sensors based on two-dimensional layer metal sulfide, including the stability research, the sensitization with metal oxides, the reduction of the thickness of metal sulfide, etc.

Bian Gang

Bian Gang currently works as a Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Jiang Pingping's lab at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China. His research has been focusing on the design of graphene oxide composite in catalytic reactions. His recent research interest focuses on the optical properties derived from graphene composite.

Jenna Holland

Jenna is an undergraduate student at Rutgers University majoring in Materials Science and Engineering with a concentration in Biomaterials and a minor in Biological Sciences. For the past year, she has been working in the Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience focusing on neuronal genesis in the inner ear. Her research project in Eda Lab focuses on colloidal lithography.

Damien Voiry

Damien works as a postdoctoral associate in the group of Prof. Chhowalla at Rutgers University, USA since 2011. His research focuses on the phase engineering of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.

Jiang Pu

Jiang received his M.Sc. degree in applied physics in 2014 from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Advanced Science and Engineering at Waseda University. He is working on device applications of organic and low-dimensional materials in Prof. Takenobu Lab. His recent research interests focus on investing electronic properties and exploring device functionalities of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.

Yohei Ishida

Yohei received his Ph.D. of Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Shinsuke Takagi at Tokyo Metropolitan University in Mar 2013. His research interests focus on the utilization of sunlight for energy conversion toward artificial photosynthesis, supramolecular assembly of two-dimensional materials and functional molecules, and metal nano-particles and nano-clusters.He will start his academic career as an assistant professor from Apr 2014 at division of Materials Science and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Daichi Kozawa

Daichi received his Bachelor of Engineering Degree in 2010 from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He completed his Master Degree in Energy Science in 2012 from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He has been working on optical properties of nano carbon materials in Prof. Matsuda’s group since October 2011.

Laurie King

Laurie completed her MChem at the University of Durham, UK and has recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis at Imperial College London. The focus of her thesis was semiconductor (such as cadmium selenide quantum dots and molybdenum disulfide nanosheets) sensitized solar cells and she has a particular interest in photocurrent measurements.

Joachim Dias

I will be starting a MASt course in the department of materials in Cambridge in October 2012 with a major focus on graphene growth and characterisation. I've been working in research on microfluidics in the CNRS lab for photonics and nanostructures under the supervision of Andre Estevez-Torres.

Maryam Salehi

I am a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University. I have started working in Prof. Chhowalla’s group since Feb 2012.