Yera Ussembayev is an FWO-funded postdoctoral researcher at LCP research group. He has been working on several different projects, including:
- Optical trapping and electrophoresis of nanoparticles and nanostructures;
- Chiral liquid crystalline structures, including micro- and nanoparticles;
- Light absorption and emission by quantum dots and nanocrystals;
- T-cell engineering based on electrophoresis-enhanced photoporation.
Yera obtained PhD degree in Applied Physics from Ghent University, Belgium, and MSc degree in Nanobiophotonics from Friedrich-Schiller-University, Germany. During his Master thesis, he developed plasmonic nanostructures for cell transfection and detection of vitamins. Following his graduation, he joined Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands, to research molecular nanomotors involved in cell motility and DNA-processing machinery. Afterwards Yera was invited in LCP research group to study the interaction of electromagnetic fields with different micro- and nanoparticles for light-emitting and biosensing applications.
More info can be found at Google Scholar and Research Gate.
Highlighted publications
- Yera Ussembayev, Filip Beunis, Lucas Oorlynck, Mohammadreza Bahrami, Filip Strubbe, Kristiaan Neyts, "Single elementary charge fluctuations on nanoparticles in aqueous solution", ACS Nano, 2023 (featured on the journal cover)
- Yera Ussembayev, Noah De Witte, Xiaohong Liu, Alberto Belmonte, Tom Bus, Sjoukje Lubach, Filip Beunis, Filip Strubbe, Albert Schenning, Kristiaan Neyts, "Uni- and bidirectional rotation and speed control in chiral photonic micromotors powered by light", Small, 2023 (featured on the frontispiece)
- Yera Ussembayev, Natalia Zawacka, Filip Strubbe, Zeger Hens, Kristiaan Neyts, "Waveguiding of photoluminescence in a layer of semiconductor nanoparticles", Nanomaterials, 2021 (featured on the journal cover)
- Alberto Belmonte, Yera Ussembayev, Tom Bus, Inge Nys, Kristiaan Neyts, Albert Schenning, "Dual light temperature responsive micrometer-sized structural color actuators", Small, 2020 (featured on the journal cover)
- Yera Ussembayev, Zeger Hens, Kristiaan Neyts, "Contrasting anisotropy of light absorption and emission by semiconductor nanoparticles", ACS Photonics, 2019 (featured on the journal cover)