Dr. Eugenia S. Vasileiadou, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Justin Caram’s group, has received the prestigious University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (UC-CPFP) for the 2024-2025 academic year.
The Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (CPFP) provides postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars whose research, teaching, and service promote diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. CPFP Fellows are eligible for hiring incentives for tenure-track faculty appointments. UCLA awards CPFP fellowships annually, administering the program alongside the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP).
The fellowship will support Vasileiadou’s research proposal titled “Leveraging in-situ Spectroscopy to Design Tunable, Infrared Nanocrystal Emitters”. Her research on infrared emitting nanocrystals, includes HgTe nanocrystals as a model system for deriving design principles of new infrared nanomaterials to better understand how growth reactions of HgTe nanocrystals proceed and what intermediate structures form under various reaction conditions, contributing to the advancement of next-generation infrared technologies.
A native of Greece, Vasileiadou received her B.S. in chemistry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 2017. She then went on to receive her Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University in 2022 with Professor Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, where her research focused on the exploratory synthesis of perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications. During her Ph.D. studies, Vasileiadou was the recipient of the Dr. John Nicholson Research Fellowship from the Graduate School of Northwestern. Vasileiadou joined the Caram group in Fall 2023, where her research focuses on developing new surface chemistry and new synthetic avenues for semiconductor nanocrystals emitting in the visible and infrared spectrum, as well as the characterization of their structural and photophysical properties. Her research interests are centered on the rational synthetic design and structure-property relationships of functional inorganic (nano)materials.
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.