Dr. Eva Hemmer is an Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Ottawa.

She received her PhD in materials science from Saarland University, Germany, focusing on the bottom-up synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials. This experience was further deepened during her postdoctoral studies at the Tokyo University of Science (2009-2012). She then joined the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Montréal, Canada) as an Alexander-von-Humboldt postdoctoral fellow to develop lanthanide-based optical nanothermometers.

In the winter of 2016, Eva came to Ottawa; since then, her research focuses on new designs of nanoparticles for bioimaging and optomagnetic applications, and the understanding of structure-property relationships.