Team

Dr. Jeonghyun Park

Jeonghyun Park was born in South Korea. She studied Chemical Engineering at Yeungnam University, South Korea. She received her PhD in Energy Science and Engineering from Daegu Kyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in 2018. She then worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Smart Textile Convergence Research Group, DGIST, South Korea. She joined the Ibáñez group in March 2024 as a research technician.

Office: I23.O2.103
E-mail: jeonghyun.park@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117

PostDocs:

Navita was born in India where she received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune in October 2023 under the guidance of Prof. Surjeet Singh. Her research is dedicated to synthesizing and optimizing the thermoelectric performance of inorganic chalcogenides. She joined the group as a Predoctoral visiting scientist in November 2023.

Office: I23.O2.103
E-mail: navita@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117

PhD Students:

Tobias Kleinhanns

Tobias Kleinhanns was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He graduated in Materials Science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2019, he received a master’s degree also in Materials Science from the University of Stuttgart. During his Master’s thesis he worked on the synthesis and characterization of heterostructured nanowires. Subsequently, he joined the graduate school of the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria as a Ph.D candidate and affiliated with the Ibañez group in June 2020.

Office: I23.O2.102
E-mail: tobias.kleinhanns@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117

Seungho Lee

Seungho Lee was born in South Korea. He graduated in Material Science and Engineering from Kookmin University. He received a master’s degree in Energy Science and Engineering from Daegu Kyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in 2016. The topic was the synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals for energy devices. In April 2019 he joined the Ibáñez group. His research focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of colloidal heteronanostructures.

Office: I23.O2.102
E-mail: seungho.lee@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117

Christine Fiedler

Christine Fiedler was born in Barbados and is also Austrian. She graduated in 2016 from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados, with First Class Honours in Chemistry with Biochemistry. She received her master’s degree in 2020 from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz Austria in Polymer Chemistry. Her work focused on the synthesis and engineering of Janus micro/nanomotors and nanoparticle synthesis. Christine started her PhD studies in September 2020 and joined the Ibañez group to work on the processing of thermoelectric materials by solution methods. 

Office: I23.O2.103
E-mail: christine.fiedler@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117

Rotation Student:

Gayathri Palissery

Gayathri was born in Kerala, India. She received her Master’s degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. Her Master’s thesis was focused on the synthesis and development of peptide-based materials for targeted cancer therapy. She started as a graduate student at ISTA in the fall of 2024 and she is currently rotating with the Ibáñez group. Her work focuses on studying the effect of different alkali metal precursors on the transport properties of thermoelectric materials.

Office: I23.O2.102
E-mail: Gayathri.Palissery@ist.ac.at
Phone: +43 (0)2243 9000-2117