People

Group leader:

Prof. Jesse Maassen

Jesse Maassen is an Associate Professor of Physics at Dalhousie University. 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

Qinxin Zhu

Graduate student
Thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale devices

Mohammad Rafiee Diznab

Graduate student
First-principles modeling of 2D thermoelectrics

Ethan Gysbertsen

Graduate student
First-principles analysis of inorganic electrides

Peter Lake

Undergraduate
Nonlinear bulk electron transport

Former members:

Dr. Maha Bhouri

Postdoctoral Fellow (with Prof. Dominic Groulx)
Theoretical & finite-element modeling of transient heat transfer

Fouad Kaadou

Graduate student
First-principles analysis of inorganic electrides

Patrick Strongman

Graduate student
First-principles modeling of thermal transport in quasi-2D materials

Cameron Rudderham

Graduate student
Ab-initio simulations of the thermoelectric properties of non-parabolic, 2D semiconductors

Braulio Beltran-Pitarch

Visiting graduate student (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Theoretical analysis of impedance spectroscopy applied to thermoelectrics

James (Luke) Fraser-Leach

Undergraduate
Exploration of the best bandstructure for thermoelectric performance

Yi Ming Chang

Undergraduate
Nonlinear bulk electron transport  

Christian Fitzner

Undergraduate
Exploration of the optimal transport distribution for thermoelectric performance
 

Ali Binai-motlagh

Undergraduate
DFT calculations of defect formation energies in semiconductors
 

Cyrus Robertson-Orkish

Undergraduate
Thermal transport properties of nanoscale 3D heat sources
 

Jeremy Peters

Undergraduate
Exact solution of the Boltzmann transport equation for calculating thermoelectric parameters

Fouad Kaadou

Undergraduate
Joule heating in nanoscale electrical conductors

William Ounjian

Undergraduate
DFT investigation of inorganic electrides

Dan Abarbanel

Undergraduate
Ballistic effects in thermal transport