Photo-Thermal Spectroscopy with Plasmonic and Rare-Earth Doped (Nano)Materials

Ali Rafiei Miandashti graduated from the University of Sistan and Baluchestan with a B.Sc. in Chemistry, and from the University of Kashan, Iran with an M.Sc. degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Hugh H. Richardson at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University.

Susil Baral received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Chemistry) degrees from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He later completed his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, under the instruction of Professor Hugh H. Richardson. Susil is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate at Professor Peng Chen's lab at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University.

Eva Yazmin Santiago graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a B.Sc. in Physics. She is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Alexander Govorov at the Department of Physics, Ohio University.

Larousse Khosravi Khorashad received his B.Sc. from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and M.Sc. degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He later completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University under supervision of Professor Alexander O. Govorov. After one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego, he is now working as a postdoctoral associate at Professor Govorov's lab at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University.