Kevin Hewitt
Professor, NSERC Chair for Inclusion in Science and Engineering
Email: Kevin.Hewitt@Dal.Ca
Phone: 902.494.2315
Fax: 902-494.5191
Mailing Address:
Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science
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PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Office:
Room 240, Sir James Dunn Building
Research Topics:黄色直播
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Office:
Room 240, Sir James Dunn Building
- Bionanophotonics
- Holography
- Molecular Imaging
- Plasmonics
- Raman Spectroscopy
Awards and Honours
- Harry Jerome Award for Professional Excellence (2014)
- Nova Scotia Discovery Centre, Science Champion Finalist (2008, 2011, 2012)
- NSERC Industrial Research Fellowship (2001) (declined)
- Youth Committee Service Award, SVGAGV (1999)
- Sidney Hogg Memorial Graduate Scholarship (1998)
- Caribbean Educational and Cultural Association Scholarship (1997)
- Graduate Research Engineering and Technology (GREAT) Scholarship (1996)
- Simon Fraser University Graduate Fellowship (1994, 1995, 1996)
- Canron Limited - Sidney Hogg Memorial Graduate Scholarship (1994, 1995, 1996)
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (1991, 1992)
- University of Toronto, Scarborough College Physics Prize (1990)
Recent publications
- L. J. Lucas, C. A. Tellez , M. L. Castilho , C. L. D. Lee , M. A. Hupman , L. S. Vieira , I. Ferreira , L. Raniero , K. C. Hewitt. Development of a sensitive, stable and EGFR-specific molecular imaging agent for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy.聽 Journal of Raman Spectroscopy DOI 10.1002/jrs.4678 (2015)
- L. J. Lucas , X. K. Chen , A. J. Smith , M. Korbelik, H. Zeng , P. W. K. Lee聽 and K. C. Hewitt.聽 Aggregation of nanoparticles in endosomes and lysosomes produce Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Journal of Nanophotonics 9, 093094-1-14 (2015)
- L. J. Lucas and K. C. Hewitt. Nanobiophotonics for molecular imaging of cancer: Au- and Ag-based Epidermal Growth Factor receptor (EGFR) specific nanoprobes. Proc. SPIE 8234, 82340C-1-15 (2012)
- C. Gullekson, L. Lucas, K. C. Hewitt and L. Kreplak.聽 Surface-sensitive Raman spectroscopy of collagen I fibrils. Biophysical Journal. 100 (7), 1837-1845 (2011)
Other interests and achievements
- Attracted $3M to his research program since 2001, and $2M to his Science outreach initiatives
- Appointed visiting professor at Stanford University and the BC Cancer Agency
- External grant reviewer for CFI, NSERC, CIHR
- Referee for numerous journals, principally the Journal of Biomedical Optics, Optics Express and the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
- Elected to the board of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, Canadian Association of Physicists and the American Physical Society 鈥� Committee on Minorities in Physics