Oksana Mozgina

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• A highly motivated professional with extensive experience in the field of advanced oxidation technologies and non-thermal plasma.
• Design, construction, testing, optimization and troubleshooting of prototype system utilizing high voltage, fluidics, high pressure gas mixtures for water treatment from organic and high-energetic materials.
• Spectroscopic characterization and environmental utilization of atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma.
• Operation, maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical equipment: Optical Emission Spectroscopy, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, UV-VIS Absorption Spectroscopy, HPLC, GC-MS.

Founder / Math Teacher

Tri-Valley Math Circles, San Ramon, CA

• Development and teaching of Math Competition classes and Standardized Test Preparation classes.

Vice-Principal / Math Teacher

Russian School of Mathematics, Dublin, CA

• Managing operation of the office with more than 800 students.
• Teaching middle, high school, and college level math courses, competition math, and college test preparation in classes averaging 17 students.
• Training and mentoring new teachers and staff.

Co-Founder / Project Manager

Corrvus, LLC, Irvine, CA

• Assembly and quality control of dynamic light scattering instrumentation modules.
• Managed daily activities and research account, including budgeting and spending.
• Phone customer support of particle size instrument operation and data analysis.

Research Assistant

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

• Conducted independent interdisciplinary research in the field of non-thermal plasma science and technology, focusing on pulsed electrical discharge in bubbled water.
• Design, constructing, testing and optimization of prototype treatment system for cleaning water, contaminated with explosive materials, using electrical discharge in bubbled water.
• Investigation of the processes involved in the plasma water treatment and analysis of long- and short‑lived active species produced by electrical discharge in water.
• Design and assembly of optical emission spectroscopy set-up for the characterization of discharge.
• Investigation of capillary discharge plasma and dielectric barrier discharge plasma efficiencies at ambient pressure for the treatment of vehicle exhaust fumes.
• Analysis of the energy consumption and operating costs of the treatment systems. Scale-up parameters.
• Preparation of quarterly project updates and yearly final reports for implementation of water remediation projects for the Picatinny Arsenal.
• Supervised and mentored junior research group members in research projects; trained sessions in the use of scientific instrumentation and computer data acquisition systems.
• Led weekly laboratory sessions in Modern Physics, Optics, and Electromagnetism.

Finance Planning Manager

Avrora Corporation, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Performed financial planning, cash flows structuring, managing corporate securities. Prepared financial forecasts. Monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements.
• Reorganized and coordinated interdepartmental financial information flows.
• Modeled the corporation financial activity.

Research Assistant

Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia

• Computer modeling of the dynamics of hydrated ions in the top layers of radiation–contaminated atmosphere.
• Mentoring and training undergraduate students and junior group members in research projects and in use of scientific instrumentation lab.

Supervisor / Interviewer

Nielsen Corporation, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Conducted social and marketing research for corporate clients such as Philip Morris and Johnson & Johnson.
• Designed research topics, focus groups and interviews. Performed data analysis and generated reports.

• O. Mozgina, A. Koutsospyros, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, C. Christodoulatos, K. H. Becker; Decomposition of Energetic Materials by Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Gas-Bubbled Aqueous Solutions. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 37, 6 (2009).
• A. Belkind, S. Gershman, O. Mozgina, C. Christodoulatos, K. Becker; Pulsed electrical discharges in water: fundamentals and applications, Proceedings of 28th ICPIG, 16 (2007).
• S. Gershman, O. Mozgina, A. Belkind, K. Becker, E. Kunhardt; Electrical Discharges in Bubbled Water, Contrib. Plasma Phys., 46, 1 (2007).
• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, C. Christodoulatos; Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Bubbled Water for Environmental Applications, PRE-8 Conference proceedings (2006).

• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, C. Christodoulatos; Degradation of Energetic Materials by Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Bubbled Water, CAPPSA-2007, Ghent, Belgium.
• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, S. Shah, C. Christodoulatos; Environmental Application of Electrical Discharge in Bubbled Water, PPPS-2007, Albuquerque, NM.
• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, C. Christodoulatos; Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Bubbled Water for Environmental Applications, PRE-8, 2006, Chania, Greece.
• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, C. Christodoulatos; Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Bubbled Water for Environmental Applications, ICoPS 2006, Traverse City, MI.
• O. Mozgina, S. Gershman, A. Belkind, K. Becker, C. Christodoulatos; Pulsed Electrical Discharges in Bubbled Water for Environmental Applications, ICoPS 2005, Monterey, CA.

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