SYLWIA A. STOPKA

EDUCATION
The George Washington University, Washington D.C. (2012 - present)
Ph.D. track in Chemistry, Research Assistant 
Akos Vertes Research Group

State University of New York (SUNY) At Oswego, Oswego, NY (2008 - 2012)
B.S. in Biochemistry

AWARDS

• 2015 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, Scholar
• 2015 US Young Investigator Travel Grant, Association for Mass Spectrometry Applications to the Clinical Lab Conference
• 2014 Washington-Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Young Investigator Travel Award for the 62nd annual ASMS
• 2012 Student Fellowship for the 3rd International Workshop on Nanoscale Imaging

COLLABORATORS

• Scott T. Retterer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
  
• Éric Maréchal and Denis Falconet, CEA-CNRS-INRA-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
  
• Trust Razunguzwa and Nicholas Morris, Protea Biosciences Inc., 955 Hartman Run Road, Morgantown, WV

PROPOSALS
“Laser Desorption Ionization of Biomolecules and Cells from Plasmonic Structures”, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 2013.

PROJECT EXPERIENCES
2012-present The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Graduate student with current research interests in developing plasmonic and nanophotonic ionization platforms for probing biochemical compositions in biology cells. Another interest is utilizing the ambient ionization source LAESI-IMS-MS for exploring biological changes in microorganisms.    

2013-2015 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
Designed and nanofabricated ionization platforms that have plasmonic properties for mass spectrometry.

2011-2012 State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Fellowship at the Environmental Research Center that specialized in the analysis of emerging and legacy contamination. Research in the analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers within environmental samples using gas chromatography-MS.

MEMBERSHIPS

• American Society for Mass Spectrometry
• American Chemical Society