Dmitry Melnik

Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University

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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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