The Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) at the Ohio State University recently welcomed two new technical staff members to boost operations at the Battery Cell R&D Center and strengthen capabilities in semiconductor materials and device fabrication at Nanotech West Lab.
New IMR technical staff members support Battery Center, semiconductor fabrication
Mark Stasik
Mark Stasik now serves as facility and operations lead at the Battery Cell R&D Center, set to open this September in Ohio State’s Carmenton district on West Campus.
There, he is responsible for leading facility operations, including the installation, servicing, and maintenance of the center’s equipment. Additionally, he will develop not only the center’s safety protocols but its budget for operations. His role ensures the center’s facility and equipment run smoothly, so researchers can focus on their work in an advanced and fast-moving field.
Stasik hit the ground running, managing the complex logistics involved in setting up the Battery Center during its construction phase.
Right now, he is coordinating and navigating the logistics and challenges of equipment delivery, handling and placement. The first major piece of equipment under his care, a large roll-to-roll electrode coating system, arrived in May in multiple crates weighing several thousand pounds each.
Over the next several months, he expects the center to receive and install more than a dozen additional systems, each with unique handling and installation needs.
Stasik recognized the critical role batteries play in electrified mobility and looks forward to contributing to breakthrough energy innovation that could enable these new capabilities.
Stasik joins the university from Worthington Steel, in Columbus, Ohio, where he was a material scientist. There, he investigated technical requests submitted by businesses through mechanical testing, metallography, microscopy, photography and chemical analysis.
Prior to Worthington, Stasik was a research scientist working with advanced materials applications, including battery and fuel cell technologies, at Battelle Memorial Institute. Before that, he worked in General Motors’ Metal Fabricating Division in Warren, Michigan. He earned his master’s degree in materials science and engineering at Ohio State, following a bachelor’s in metallurgical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
Outside work, he follows basketball, enjoys exercising and music, playing guitar and piano.
Zane Jamal-Eddine
Zane Jamal-Eddine, Ph.D., is IMR’s newest research scientist specializing in epitaxial growth, design and fabrication of advanced semiconductor technologies. Working in IMR’s Microelectronics Innovation and Technology Cluster (MITEC) located at Nanotech West Lab, he will guide and enable collaborative research and training in semiconductor growth and processing for strategic defense and commercial areas of next-generation devices based on wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductors.
Previously, Jamal-Eddine obtained significant semiconductor industry experience, first at Lumileds where he was the senior epitaxy process engineer in charge of 7 industry-scale gallium nitride metal-organic chemical vapor deposition MOCVD systems, and later at Intel where he was a logic technology development engineer where he was the process owner for several plasma processing tools supporting three generations of Intel chip technologies.
In his role at IMR, Jamal-Eddine will lead and support research on the epitaxial growth of wide and ultrawide bandgap compound semiconductors using MOCVD and hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE), focusing on aluminum gallium nitride, gallium oxide and related advanced semiconductors of interest for applications in power electronics, high frequency RF electronics, and optoelectronics. He will also support collaborative research efforts in device fabrication, characterization, testing and analysis.
As IMR’s lead epitaxy research scientist, Jamal-Eddine is looking forward to engaging in high impact collaborations across the faculty, students and staff involved in compound semiconductor materials and devices research.
Along with IMR research scientist Joe McGlone, Ph.D., he will serve as a key partner with industry and government partners in support of IMR’s key role as the primary infrastructure hub for the Midwest Microelectronics Consortium (MMEC).
Prior to his stint in industry, Jamal-Eddine completed his doctoral degree under the guidance of Siddharth Rajan, a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in Ohio State’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. With Rajan, he worked on gallium nitride-based epitaxial growth and device design, characterization and fabrication, focusing on novel light emitting device technologies.
Outside the lab, he enjoys hiking and looks forward to further exploring the Columbus area through cycling.
IMR is excited to welcome back both Mark Stasik and Zane Jamal-Eddine to Ohio State!