Nick Sokov

Nick completed his Master’s thesis in chemistry at the University of Konstanz under the supervision of Prof. Helmut Cölfen and the mentoring of Dr. Guillermo González-Rubio. Under the supervision of Prof. Miriam Unterlass and Dr. Guillermo González-Rubio, he designs functional surface ligands capable of stabilizing metallic, magnetic, and semiconductor nanocrystals in different polar and apolar media. Thereby, he aims to facilitate the co-assembly of distinct NCs into multicomponent mesostructures.

Jessica Geppert

Jessica obtained her Master’s degree in nanoscience from the University of Konstanz, supervised by Prof. Klaus Boldt and Prof. Helmut Cölfen. Under the guidance of Prof. Miriam Unterlass and Dr. Guillermo González-Rubio, she is developing new strategies for the synthesis of multielemental colloidal nanocrystals with a focus on metal chalcogenides and oxides. She is also exploring their heterostructures with plasmonic metals and investigating their subsequent properties.

Sergio Triviño

Sergio obtained his Master’s degree in chemical technology from the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Andrés Guerrero-Martínez. His research project involves developing routes combining seed-mediated methods and ultrafast pulsed laser irradiation to synthesize trimetallic noble metal alloy nanocrystals for catalysis.

Ren Xu

Ren completed his Master’s thesis in materials engineering at the Ocean University of China under the supervision of Prof. Minghua Huang. He investigates advanced routes to control the size and morphology of platinum and platinum-based alloy nanocrystals for electrocatalysis.

Marina T. Candela de Aroca

Marina completed her doctoral studies at the University of Cantabria under the supervision of Prof. Rafael Valiente. She investigates the combination of colloidal nanocrystal synthesis routes and pulsed laser technology to create plasmonic semiconductor nanocrystals with defined dimensions, controlled compositions, and tunable plasmon bands.

Fernando Martín

Fernando obtained his Master’s degree in chemical technology from the Complutense University of Madrid under the supervision of Prof. José Osio Barcina and Prof. María José Mancheño. His investigations focus on the design of metal oxide nanocrystals with magnetic and plasmonic properties through the use of wet-chemical routes and pulsed laser irradiation.

Former Members

Henry Geiss

Henry completed his Bachelor´s degree in Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. In his Master studies, he investigated novel routes to growth platinum-group metal shells with controlled dimension of plasmonic gold nanocrystals.