Doumon Research Group

SEMDE

Sustainable Energy, Materials, and Device Engineering

SEMDE

Sustainable Energy, Materials, and Device Engineering

Team

"The secret is to gang up on the problem, not on each other." - Thomas Stallkamp

Group Leader

Nutifafa Y. Doumon (Ph.D., MA)

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Virginia S. and Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering

Affiliate of the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE)
Affiliate of the Materials Research Institute (MRI)
Affiliate of the Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering, and Design with Africa (AESEDA)

Staff

Ivy M. Asuo (Ph.D.)

Assistant Research Professor

Email: ipa5154@psu.edu
Hometown: Tsito, V/R, Ghana

Education

  • Ph.D. in Energy and Materials Science, INRS-EMT, QC, Canada
  • MSc. in Functionalized Advanced Materials Engineering, Erasmus Mundus Master Program, France & Germany
  • MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, AUST-Abuja, Nigeria
  • BSc. in Physics,  University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Prior Publication Highlights:

  1. I. M. Asuo, P. Fourmont, I. Ka, D. Gedamu, S. Bouzidi, A. Pignolet, R. Nechache, S. G. Cloutier “Highly efficient and ultrasensitive large‐area flexible photodetector based on perovskite nanowires”, Small 2019, 15, 1804150
  2. I. M. Asuo, D. Gedamu, I. Ka, L. F. Gerlein, F.-X. Fortier, A. Pignolet, S. G. Cloutier, R. Nechache “High-performance pseudo-halide perovskite nanowire networks for stable and fast-response photodetector”, Nano Energy 2018, 51, 324-332
  3. I. M. Asuo, I. Ka, D. Gedamu, A. Pignolet, R. Nechache, S. G. Cloutier “Tunable thiocyanate-doped perovskite microstructure via water-ethanol additives for stable solar cells at ambient conditions”, Solar Ener. Mat. and Solar Cells 2019, 200, 110029

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Graduate Students

Souk Yoon (John) Kim

Ph.D. Student (Materials Science and Engineering) 

Email: sjk6747@psu.edu
Hometown: Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Education

  • BEng. in Display Engineering, Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea.

  • MEng. in Display Engineering, Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea.

Cyril Chu Fubin Kumachang

Ph.D. Student (Materials Science and Engineering)

Email: cpk5497@psu.edu
Hometown: Bamenda, Cameroon.

Education 

  • BSc. in Physics with a minor in Electronics, University of Buea, Cameroon.
  • MSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, African University of Science and Technology (AUST)-Abuja, Nigeria.

Arezo-Mahdavi Varposhti

M.S. Student (Engineering Science and Mechanics)

Email: Azm7000@psu.edu

Hometown: Isfahan, Iran

Education

  • BSc. in Nanofiber structures Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran

Undergraduate Students

Amrita Anand

Undergraduate student (Materials Science and Engineering)

2023-24 MatSE Undergraduate Research Fellow

Email: apa6175@psu.edu

Hometown: Singapore

Education:

  • State College Area High School (2022)

Student Interns

  • Just Francois NGANZIAMI LOUMONI, from CESI France (Master Degree, 2023)