Sanyasi did his MSc in Physics at Queen's University, Ontario (2011). He graduated with a PhD (cotutelle) from Queen's University and Université d'Angers, France (2017) under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Michel Nunzi and Prof. Régis Barille. His research interests include organic electronics, light-matter interactions, nanoplasmonics, flexible electronics, organic-inorganic hybrid interface energetics, and 2D materials. Currently, he is a post-doctoral fellow in Prof. Cicoira's group and collaborates with Prof. Clara Santato and Prof. Giovanni Beltrame.  His past sports interests were kho-kho and cricket, well-known in India. In Canada, he likes spending time playing racquet sports, ultimate frizbee, or slacklining in the summer, and skating or skiing in the winter.

Xinda received his B.E. in Materials Science (2013) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (2018, supervisor: Prof. Hyun-Joong Chung) from the University of Alberta (Canada). After his graduation, he worked as a contract researcher at InnoTech Alberta for five months. His research interest includes polymer physics, energy storage devices, flexible electronics, and carbon materials. He joined the Organic Iontronics group as a postdoctoral researcher from November 2018.

Dr. Tang received his B.S. degree in Corrosion and Anticorrosion (1999), M.S. degree in Material Science (2002), and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2005) from Hunan University in China. In 2009, he became a research associate in Department of Applied Physics at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Starting Dec. 2011 he is a professor in the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Hunan Normal University in China before joining the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal as a visiting scholar. His research interests include functionalization of nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and noble metal nanoparticles) and the applications in biosensors. In his spare time he enjoys reading and traveling.

Adilah is a third year PhD student in from University of Malaya, Malaysia majoring in Physics. Her research interests include organic electronics, carbon materials and flexible electronics. She will be working as an intern in the Laboratory of Organic Iontronics at Polytechnique Montreal, and her research study is focusing on the self-healing conducting polymer. She is a recipient of the Canada-Asean scholarship 2019.

Chithiravel obtained his B.Sc. degree in physics from Sacred Heart College at 2008 and M.Sc. from Bharathiar University (2012). One year later he joined, as a research fellow in Organic Materials and Devices, the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune, India. Here he worked on organic field effect transistor and organic bulk heterojunction solar cell based on pi-conjugated small molecules and polymers. He is currently a PhD student in chemical engineering. His current research interest are in flexible transistors and interface study in organic BHJ solar cell. He enjoys reading books, Cooking and playing table tennis.

Shiming received his B.E. in Electronic Science and Technology (2009) and M.E. in Physical Electronics (2012) from Jilin University in China. He is currently a graduate student in Chemical Engineering. He is interested in light-emitting and interface study of organic semiconductor diodes and transistors. He enjoys traveling, photography, playing basketball and badminton. He is recipient of a Vanier Canada Gratuate Scholarship.

Prajwal Kumar received his M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from Mangalore University at 2009. Then he spent two years (2009-2012) in Organic Nano Electronics Group at Indian Institute of science (IISc), Bangalore, where he worked on synthesis of various thiophene based conducting molecules and electrochemical Polymerization of conducting polymers for electrochemical sensor applications. Prajwal was a PhD student in Chemical Engineering department, with an interest in organic electrochemical transistors for bioelectronics applications. Prajwal enjoys playing Badminton, Cricket, traveling and reading. Prajwas is currently a research scientist at Bioastra.

Gaia Tomasello received her M.Sc (2005) in chemistry and her PhD (2009) in theoretical chemistry from University of Bologna (Italy). After she has worked as AvH (Alexander Von Humboldt) postdoctoral fellow at Department of Physics of Free University (Berlin) in the field of photodynamics and molecular imaging simulations. She will be a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering focusing her research activity in development of conducting biopolymers for applications in neuroscience and nanomedicine. Gaia likes painting, enjoys traveling and learning new languages and she is passionate of art-cinema.

Zhihui Yi received her M.S. in Chemistry from Jilin University. She is currently a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, working on organic electrochemical transistors. She is recipient of a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and of the Gilles Brassard prize for interdisciplinary research. Zhihui is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Irene Ruggeri received her B.Sc. (2012) and her M.Sc. (2014) in industrial chemistry and polymer materials from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She has worked as Temporary Research Fellow at Chemistry Department of Bologna University (Italy) in the field of energy storage/conversion electrochemical systems. She is now a PhD student in Chemistry at Bologna University (Italy) working on lithium batteries, focusing her research activity on lithium/air system. In Montréal, she will be interested in the electronic properties of the electrode materials for Energetics. She is recipient of a FRQNT international scholarship for an internship at Polytechnque Montéal.

Chia-Hsin Li is currently in her second-year master program in National Taiwan University. Majoring in chemical engineering, Chia-Hsin's research interests lie in 2D perovskites and organic field-effect transistors.  She is now working as a summer intern in Prof. Fabio Cicoira's group. She is going to work on electrolyte-gated transistors.

Yuting Ciou is a 2nd year masters student at National Taiwan University majoring in Applied Mechanics. She is working as a summer intern in Prof. Fabio Cicoira's group. She is going to work on ionic liquid-based ion thrusters for CubSats and the mechanical properties of self-healing polymer films. 

Ben George is currently a Masters student in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal under Prof. Fabio Cicoira. He graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Waterloo in 2015. Prior to joining Polytechnique, he worked at ARLANXEO, a synthetic rubber and specialty elastomer company, for 2 years as a contract employee. His current project focuses on fabricating novel ionic liquid-based ion thrusters for CubeSats, in partnership with Polyorbite. He is the recipient of the FQRNT scholarship.

Nicolo' received his bachelor degree in Biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in Biomedical engineering at Polytechnique Montreal for a double degree program with Politecnico di Milano. He is interested in bioelectronics and medical images processing. He enjoys travelling, listening to music, and playing basketball. He is the recipient of the TransMedTech Institue Scholarship.

Côme graduated in Biomedical engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, for a double-degree program with the French engineering school CentraleSupélec, where he studied Electrical Engineering for two years. His Master’s thesis was focused on organic coatings for cerebral microelectrodes. He enjoys sports (sailing, wrestling), politics and economy.

Tom is in the third year of his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath (England). He is currently undertaking a research project at École Polytechnique de Montréal on conducting polymer films for high-performance bioelectronic devices focussing on organic electrochemical transistors.

Fanny is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal for a double-degree program with Supélec (France), where she studied Electrical Engineering for two years. She is currently working on organic electrochemical devices. She enjoys swimming, traveling, and reading.

Elizabeth received her BSc. degree in Materials Science from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland (2014). She is currently obtaining her Master’s degree in Micro- and Nanosystems also at the same University. For her final research topic she joined the laboratory of organic iotronics to pursue research in the field of flexible electronics. Elizabeth enjoys hiking and team sports as well as travelling and discovering new areas. Elizabeth currently works for Texas Instruments.

Olga Berezhetska received her BA in Biochemistry and biology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev (Ukraine) and is currently a MSc student in Biomedical Engineering. She is studying the organic electronic devices as tools to control the immobilization of proteins. Interests outside of lab include food, reading and running. She is recipient of a Pierre Arbour Foundation scholarship. Olga received her MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering in April 2015.

Johan Alberti is a 4th-year student at "Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse" majoring in Physical engineering. He is working as a summer intern in Prof. Fabio Cicoira's group. He is going to work on conductive properties of polymers and curli proteins in partnership with Mcgill University.

Yevgen Moskalenko is a 3rd-year undergraduate student at The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University majoring in Solid body physics. He is working as a summer intern in Prof. Fabio Cicoira’s group. He is going to explore the self-healing properties of conducting polymer films.

Shurui (Suri) is a third year undergraduate student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She is working as a summer intern in Prof. Fabio Cicoira’s group. She is going to exploit the self-healing efficiency of conductive polymer, as well as to explore healing property of a composite made of conductive polymer andbiological gel.

Zizhou Xiang is a 3rd year undergraduate student at McGill university, majoring in chemical engineering and minoring in biotechnology. She is interested in cross disciplinery studies with chemical engineering and biotechnology. She will be working on self healable polymers. She enjoys reading, snowboarding and travelling.

KyoungOh Kim is majoring in material sciecne & engineering at Seoul National University and is in the fourth year of undergraduate courses. He is interested in structural materials, with a focus on light metals. His research experience involving hydrogels led him to his current interest in studying polymer materials. He came to this lab as a research intern for research experience abroad. He loves playing sports, traveling and studying languages (English, French).

Floriane Miquet Westphal is a student in Chemical Engineering at Concordia University (Montréal). She has been an undergraduate intern in summer 2018, in collaboration with Prof. Paula Wood Adams (Concordia). She has been recipient of an NSERC Student research award.

Pauline Chevreau is a student in Microelectronics at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne(France).  She was an undergraduate intern in summer 2018. She was a recipient of Yelon-Brebner scholarship.

Shalin is in the third year of his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath (England). He is currently undertaking a research project at École Polytechnique de Montréal on conducting polymer films for high-performance bioelectronic devices focussing on organic electrochemical transistors. He loves playing squash, basketball and rugby, going to live music events, camping holidays, travelling and exploring new places.

Jee Yeon is in the third year of her bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering at Seoul National University (South Korea). She came Polytechnique Montreal to try various technological works. In Polytechnique Montreal, she is participating in a research project on fabricating ion thruster for nanosatellites. She enjoys appreciating natural lives of plants and animal. For professional life, she is on her way of deciding future career. 

Hyun Jae (Ada) is in her final year of her Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering (Honours) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia). She is working as an intern with Fabio Cicoira’s team on conducting polymer coatings for electrodes. She is interested in biotechnology and how it can be applied in the field of biomedical engineering. She enjoys travelling, reading and listening to music. 

Michelle is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. She is the recipient of an NSERC Student research award for the summer 2017 and will be working under Fabio Cicoira’s supervision.  She will be working on bioelectrodes made by electropolymerization. Michelle enjoys travelling, playing soccer and is involved with the Polytechnique Montréal section of Engineers without borders.

Camille is currently pursuing her degree in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal.  She received the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards under Fabio Cicoira’s supervision.  She joined the laboratory of organic iotronics and is working in the research field of flexible electronics for her summer internship (2015).  Camille enjoys traveling, doing international student exchanges, biking and playing basketball.

I'm Jaime Núñez Aparicio, I'm 22 years old. I was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas in January 29th 1993, I'm from Mexico. Actually I'm studying Electronic Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Cd. Madero, on May 2015 I will be participating in a summer research of MITACS globalink program at the project "Processing of conducting polymers for biological applications" I really like to play soccer in my free time and spend time with friends.

Laurie Fontaine is pursuing a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at ÉcolePolytechnique de Montréal. She joined Fabio Cicoira's research group for herfirst internship as a summer student. She is working on a project on organic eletrochemical transistors. She is also an active member of Polytechnique's student association (AEP).

Amel Sarah Nouas is currently a graduate bachelor student in Chemical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. After several internship in the environment department of the Canadian Copper Refinery in East Montreal, she has joined Fabio Cicoira's research group with a  NSERC undergraduate scholarships between April and August 2014.

Arvindh is pursuing a Bachelor of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (India) in the field of Chemical Science and Technology (major discipline), and additionally Chemical Engineering (minor discipline). He joined Fabio Cicoira's Organic Iontronics Research Group as a short term research intern in the summer of 2014. Before joining this group, the research projects he was a part of were : Organic Synthesis (of conducting polymers) and Membrane Separation techniques. Apart from academics, he enjoys reading novels, watching movies and TV series, playing PC games, quizzing and extreme sports.

Ariane Bérard is pursuing a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. She joins the Fabio Cicoira research group in fall 2012 as an undergraduate researcher. She has received three scholarships (UPIR, NSERC and RMPQ) to continue is research. Ariane worked one year in the field of catalysts before heading to the bioorganic electronic. Ariane is recipient of an Undergraduate Research Fellowship of the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. She currently works as a teacher assistant for first and second-year courses in chemical engineering.

Sampath is a Junior Undergraduate of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (India). He is a summer research intern with the MITACS Globalink programme. His research interests include microfabrication, and the integration of electronics with biological systems. In his spare time he likes swimming and playing squash, while not roaming Montreal.

Gabriel Vinícius Trevisan is an Electrical Engineering undergrad student from University of Brasília, Brazil and currently working on organic electronics laboratory in École Polytechnique de Montréal. His scientific initiation program was about laboratory procedure for creation of organic electronic devices. During his spare time, he enjoys listening to music and playing guitar.