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Dmitry Melnik
Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University
*******@*********.****-*****.***
Summary
Chemical physicist with 15+ years of experimental and analytical research experience in academic laboratory
environment, with special skills in
• Project management: technical leadership and team leadership
• Requirement definition, design, integration and test of custom-built instrumentation
• Technical problem solving skills; design of experiment, performance modeling, test and qualification process
• Laboratory management and maintenance
• Mentoring and professional development of junior team members
• Programming (C, Labview, Mathematica): instrument automation, data collection, processing and analysis
• Hands-on skills; various laser systems, photonic, vacuum, high voltage and general instrumentation
• Presentation and technical writing; proposals, scientific papers, reports, posters, and presentations
Experience
Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University
March 2007 - Present (7 years 1 month)
Design and develop novel experimental techniques, conduct research, supervise students and postdocs,
manage operations of the lab, write and publish papers.
Current projects:
• Development of the experimental methods for the accurate measurement of the absorption cross-sections
and reaction rate constants for the reactive intermediates using multiple wavelength CRDS technique
• Development of the theoretical approaches and numerical models for the analysis of the rovibronic spectra
involving strongly coupled vibronic manifolds
Postdoctorate Research associate at Rice University
July 2004 - March 2007 (2 years 9 months)
• Theoretical and computational studies of the effects of the symmetry reduction on the rotational structure of
the Jahn-Teller active molecules
• Design and construction of the wide-view angle fluorescent imager for biological applications
Postdoctorate Research Associate at The Ohio State University
June 2003 - June 2004 (1 year 1 month)
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• Submillimeter wave spectroscopy of jet cooled methoxy radical and its isotopologues
Graduate Research Associate at The Ohio State University
1997 - June 2003 (6 years)
• Design, development and construction of the fast scan submillimeter wave absorption spectrometer for
measurements of molecular spectra in the jet-cooled environment
• Experimental and theoretical study of low frequency vibrations of the molecules in sub-THz spectrum
region, including transient and low abundant species.
Publications
Investrigation of quasi-CW and CW barium vapor laser
SPIE-INT. Soc. Opt. Eng. 1993
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, S.V. Kalinin, I. I. Klimovskii
Submillimeter wave vibration-rotation spectroscopy of Ar-CO and Ar-ND3
J. Chem. Phys. 2001
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, T. A. Miller, F. C. DeLucia, S. V. Belov
Spectroscopy of \Sigma 0_0 -- \Pi 1_0 vibrational-tunneling-rotational band in Rg-ND3 (Rg=Ne, Ar, Kr)
J. Mol. Spectroscopy 2002
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, T. A. Miller, F. C. DeLucia
The absorption spectroscopy of the lowest pseudorotatinal states of tetrahydrofuran
J. Chem. Phys. 2003
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Sandhya Gopalakrishnan, T. A. Miller, F. C. DeLucia
Observation of bands among the four lowest pseudorotational states of 1,3-dioxolane
J. Mol. Spectroscopy 2003
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, T. A. Miller, F. C. DeLucia
Development of of the Hamiltonian and matrix elements for partially deuterated methoxy radical
Mol. Physics 2007
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Jinjun Liu, T. A. Miller, R. F. Curl
The changing shapes of molecules
Science 2008
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, T. A. Miller
The spectroscopic characterization of the methoxy radical. I. Rotationally resolved A2A1 -- X2E
Electronic spectra of CH3O
J. Chem. Phys. 2009
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Jinjun Liu, Ming-Wei Chen, T. A. Miller, J. T. Yi
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The spectroscopic characterization of the methoxy radical. II. Rotationally resolved A2A1 -- X2E
Electronic and X2E microwave spectra of the perdeuteromethoxy radical CD3O
J. Chem. Phys. 2009
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Jinjun Liu, Ming-Wei Chen, T. A. Miller, Y. Endo, E. Hirota
Wide-field four channel fluorescent imager for biological applications
J. Biomed. Optics 2010
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, T. Madhuri, H. Barnett, K. Daly, C. H. Morgan, W.-H. Chang, S. Link, C. T. Bucher,
C. Kittrel, R.F. Curl
Measurement of the absolute absorption cross-section of the A -- X transition in organic peroxy radicals
by dual-wavelength cavity ring-down spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. A 2010
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Rabi Chhantyal Pun, T. A. Miller
The spectroscopic characterization of the methoxy radical. III. Rotationally resolved A2A1 -- X2E
Electronic and X2E submillimeter wave spectra of the partially deuterated CH2DO and CHD2O radicals
J. Chem. Phys. 2011
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Jinjun Liu, Ming-Wei Chen, T. A. Miller, R. F. Curl
Electronic transition moment for the 0^0_0 band of of the A-- X transition of the ethyl peroxy radical
J. Phys. Chem. A 2011
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, P. S. Thomas, T. A. Miller
Kinetic measurements of the C2H5O2 radical using time-resolved cavity ring-down spectroscopy with a
continuous source.
Journal of Chemical Physics September 5, 2013
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, T. A. Miller
Rotationally resolved B <-- X electronic spectra of isopropoxy radical: A comparative study
Journal of Chemical Physics September 5, 2013
Authors: Dmitry Melnik, Jinjun Liu, T. A. Miller
Skills & Expertise
Chemical Physics
Applied Research
Design of Experiments
IR spectroscopy
Microwave spectroscopy
Scientific Computing
Optics
Laser
R&D
Molecular Physics
Research
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Physical Chemistry
Spectroscopy
Numerical Analysis
Languages
Russian (Native or bilingual proficiency)
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Education
The Ohio State University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Physics, 1995 - 2003
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Master of Science (M.S.), Chemical Physics, 1986 - 1992
Interests
New scientific research methods, novel instrumentation, applied research, basic research, combustion,
atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, research and development, molecular physics, interdisciplinary
research.
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Dmitry Melnik
Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University
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