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Kamil Bartłomiej Stelmach

Curriculum Vitae

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
2020 Saint Regis Dr., Unit 204 E-mail: kstelmac@gmu.edu
Lombard, IL 60148 Tel.: 603-275-5821
Place of Birth: Tarnobrzeg, Poland
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DOB: December 8 , 1988
Fluent Languages: Polish, English Research Website: http://stelmachresearch.weebly.com
Nationality: Polish, American LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kamastro
EDUCATION
Keller Graduate School of Management, Downers Grove, IL 2016-2018
M.B.A. with a Concentration in Entrepreneurship (Expected)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2012-2017
M.Sc. in Chemistry (Defended Spring 2015)
Thesis: “Laboratory Investigations of Oxygen Incorporation in Interstellar and Planetary Ices”
Advisor: Dr. Paul D. Cooper
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo – UIMP, Santander, Spain 2014
NASA Astrobiology Summer School Scholar
Topic: Habitable Environments in the Universe
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 2007-2011
B.Sc. in Integrative Biology Honors and Chemistry
Graduated with Distinction
Minor in Astronomy
Thesis: “Microbial Catalysis Observed in the Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO ) in a
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Laboratory Hot Spring Apparatus”


Advisors: Dr. Bruce W. Fouke and Dr. Robert A. Sanford
SELECTED HONORS AND AW ARDS
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship ($30K/Year) 2013-2015
Awarded from Planetary Science Division
Barry Goldwater Scholarship ($7.5K/Year) 2010
Thomas R. McGetchin Memorial Scholarship 2010
Awarded from the University Space Research Association
James Scholar Summer Research Award ($1K)
Awarded from the University of Illinois.
Edmund James Scholar 2007-2011
Honors program for students at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of
Illinois.
Dean’s List 2007-2009
Illinois General Assembly Scholarship 2009
Awarded by Illinois State Capital Representative for merit.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Astrochemistry Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2012-2016
Identified CO-HOCO complex in the mid-infrared in an Ar matrix.
Studied reactions involving O in CH + H O ices.
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Studied reactions in the sublimation of N ices laced with CH /CO/H O (Pluto-ice analogs).
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Part-time since Summer 2015 semester.


Advisor: Dr. Paul D. Cooper
Geomicrobiology Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 2008-2011
Used an artificial hot spring to study the microbial effects on mineral precipitation.
Compared precipitation rates and morphology of the minerals formed.
Advisors: Dr. Bruce W. Fouke and Dr. Robert A. Sanford
Microgravity Research Project, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 2010-2011
Led a team of five students to design and build a microgravity experiment involving testing the
behavioral responses of nematodes.
Advisors: Dr. James Dalling and Dr. Soon-Jo Chung
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Summer 2011
Responsible for quantifying microbial bioburden within spacecraft materials using cryogenic
milling, classical microbiological techniques, and epifluorescence microscopy.
Advisors: Wayne Schubert and Myron la Duc
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA Summer 2009
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Applied metatranscriptomics tools to microbial mats.
Advisors: Dr. Dagmar Woebken, Dr. Luke C. Burow, and Dr. Brad Bebout
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Chamberlain University, Naperville, IL 2016-2018
Student Services Advisor
Phigenics, LLC, Naperville, IL 2014-2016
From 2014-2016, worked part-time on preparing figures, tables, and text for company’s CTO for
a book manuscript.
From Fall 2015 to Spring 2016, worked on analyzing water samples for chemical and biological
contaminants.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2013-2014
Graduate Lecturer (General Chemistry Laboratory I and II)
Graduate Hall Residence Advisor
Phigenics, LLC, Naperville, IL 2012-2013
Analytical Chemist (Part-Time)
Worked only on data entry after beginning graduate school.
University Housing, Champaign, IL 2009-2010
Residence Advisor
KrisDee & Associates, Inc., South Elgin, IL Summer 2007,
CNC Operator Summer 2008
SKILLSET
Biology
• Microbiological: Culturing Techniques, Microscopy and Epifluorescent Microscopy
• Molecular Biology: Enzyme Assays, Gel Electrophoresis, Nucleic Acid Extraction, PCR, RNAi
• Molecular Database Tools: NCBI, Wormbase
Chemistry
• Astrochemistry: High Vacuum Systems; Microwave and Tesla Coil Plasma Discharges; Low Energy Electron Gun (0-
10 keV) Irradiation of Cosmic Ice Analogues; Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA); Matrix Isolation Technique (with Ar and
N Matrices)
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• Chromatography: Gas, Ion, Column, TLC


• Spectroscopy: Transmission IR, UV-Vis, NMR (Classroom Experience Only)
• Wet Lab Chemistry: Distillation, Extraction, Titration, Recrystallization
Geology
• Mineral Identification with a Polarizing Microscope (Classroom Experience Only) and X-Ray Diffraction Analysis
• Thin Section Preparation and Analysis of Carbonate Minerals
Computer
• GRAMS/AI Spectroscopy Software; Origins Pro; Mathematica
• Google Drive; Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Macromedia/Adobe Flash Programming/Animating
• ChemDraw
• Exposed to Latex, Python, MATLAB, and FreeMat
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Astrobiology Graduate Conference, Atlanta, GA 2018
External Organizing Committee
International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, Urbana, IL 2017
Assistant Session Chair for “Dynamics and Kinetics” Session
Astrobiology Graduate Conference, Charlottesville, VA 2017
External Organizing Committee
Education Outreach
Created Conference Logos
Administered Social Media Sites
Astrobiology Graduate Conference, Boulder, CO 2016
External Organizing Committee
Administered Social Media Sites
Space Policy Advocacy, Washington, D.C. 2015
Spoke with U.S. House of Representatives and Senates members and lobbied for greater funding
to space research and exploration.
MEMBERSHIPS

• American Chemical Society (Physical Chemistry Division – Astrochemistry Subdivision)


• American Geophysical Union (Planetary Sciences Section)
• The Planetary Society
PUBLICATIONS
Stelmach, K.B., Neveu, M., Vick-Majors, T., Mickol, R., Chou, L., Webster, K., Tilley, M., Zacchei, F., Escudero, C.,
Flores, C., and Fernández, E.J.G. (2018) Secondary Electrons as an Energy Source for Life. Astrobiology 18(1):
10.1089/ast.2016.1510.
Stelmach, K.B. and Cooper, P.D. Using a High Vacuum Apparatus to Test Astrochemically Relevant Reactions. Planetary
and Space Science. In Preparation.
Stelmach, K.B., Yarnall, Y.Y., and Cooper, P.D. Sublimation of Chemistry of Nitrogen Ices as Analogs to Triton and Pluto:
A Pilot Laboratory Study Utilizing Irradiated 1:1:100 CH + H O + N and 1:1:100 CO + H O + N Ices. Earth and
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Space Science. In Preparation.


Yarnall, Y., Azari, F., Stelmach, K., Cooper, P.D., and Gadzhiev, O. Infrared Identification of the OC-HOCO Complex in
Argon Matrices. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. In Preparation.

TALKS
Stelmach, K.B., Yarnall, Y., and Cooper, P.D., Astrochemical Laboratory Experiments as Analogs to Plutonian Chemistry:
Using FTIR Spectroscopy to Monitor the Sublimation of Irradiated 1:1:100 CO + H O + N and 1:1:100 CH + H O + N Ices,
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International Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium, 2017, Urbana, IL.


Stelmach, K.B., Yarnall, Y., and Cooper, P.D., Forming Prebiotic Molecules in Nitrogen Dominated Ices: A Laboratory
Investigation, Astrobiology Graduate Conference, 2015, Madison, WI.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Stelmach, K.B., Cooper, P.D., Using a High Vacuum Apparatus to Test Astrochemically-Relevant Reactions Involving
Molecular Oxygen (O ), Astrobiology Graduate Conference, 2017, Charlottesville, VA.
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Stelmach, K.B., Yarnall, Y., Cooper, P.D., Reactions in the Sublimation of Matrix-Isolated Cosmic Ice Analogs: A
Laboratory Study Utilizing 1:1:100 CO + H O + N and CH + H O + N Cosmic Ice Analogs, Astrobiology Science
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Conference, 2017, Mesa, AZ.


Stelmach, K.B., Yarnall, Y., Azari, F., Cooper, P.D., Investigating the Reactions between OH and CO using the Matrix
Isolation Technique: Implications for Planetary and Interstellar Chemistry, Astrobiology Graduate Conference, 2014, Troy,
NY.
Stelmach, K.B., Sanford, R., and Fouke, B.W., Microbial Catalysis Observed in the Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate
(CaCO ) in a Laboratory Hot Spring Kinetic Apparatus, School of Earth, Science and Society Research Review, 2011, Urbana,
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Revised: January 2018

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