Mark Koziel Email & Phone Number

US

• Performs engineering work in connection with the operation, instrumentation and maintenance of water purification equipment and facilities.
• Assists in calibrating and maintaining recording, regulating, and treatment devices on purification equipment
• Completes daily control logs detailing plant activity, treatment changes, equipment readings, and problems
• Calculates actual dosage rates of water purification chemicals and monitors residuals to ensure compliance with City or other governmental standards
• Receives reports from the control laboratory regarding analyses of water samples, records data and compares data with instrument panel gauge data to ensure water quality standards are maintained.

Lemont, IL, US

• Developed nanostructured materials for use in RF devices and reusable N95 facemasks, which included:
• Fabrication of 1D nanomaterials using electrospinning and electroplating technology
• Material microstructural, chemical, and rheological property characterization using SEM, TGA-MS, and rheometer
• Printing and slot-coating of cathode material for solid state batteries
• Participated in a new effort to make sensors and other printed electronics with aerosol jet printing

Lemont, IL, US

• Employed the Advance Photon Source to perform XPCS and SAXS
• Studied the rheology of silica nanoparticles with varying PEG chain lengths
• Synthesized various poly(ionic liquid)s for the purpose of being utilized as a polymer brush

Naperville, Illinois, US

• Characterized polymers for attributes such as viscosity, density, particle size, and molecular weight
• Generated numerous latex and dry polymers for cardboard strengthening
• Performed many experiments working with silica stability in various brines using polymers

Naperville, Illinois, US

• Formulated and evaluated the stability of various blends of chemistries
• Analyzed water samples for various properties such as metal ions present, hardness, and turbidity
• Completed numerous tests ranging from small jars to one-hundred-liter pilot cooling towers with success in minimizing scale and corrosion with various chemistries

Rutherford, New Jersey, US

• Instructed children ages 3 to 16 in math and reading comprehension
• Compiled data on children’s improvement to track academic progress

Chicago, IL, US

• Applied density functional theory to investigate the electronic structure of molecules
• Evaluated various possible nanocrystals for their use in photovoltaic solar cells
• Investigated the effects that ligands have on nanocrystals such as stability and band energies

Master'S Degree, Materials Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts, Chemistry