Moogega Cooper OFFICE:

PERMANENT:

Hess Lab, Room 117 3400 Lancaster Ave Philadelphia, PA 19141 215-895-2523 [email protected] EDUCATION:

714 Pine St Darby, PA 19023 757-218-4049 [email protected]

Doctorate of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Expected June 2010 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA GPA: 3.84/4.0 Advisor: Dr. Alexander Fridman Dissertation Topic: Sterilization and Complete Removal of Extremophile Microorganisms using Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, April 2008 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA GPA: 3.82/4.0 Advisor: Dr. Alexander Fridman Bachelor of Science, Physics, May 2006 Hampton University, Hampton, VA Summa Cum Laude Courses taken included: Quantum Mechanics I & II Numerical Methods Electricity and Magnetism I & II

EXPERIENCE:

GPA of 4.01 on a 4.1 scale Mechanics I & II Thermodynamics Astronomy I & II

Ph.D. Candidate, April 2008 - Present Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA • Develop an understanding of sterilization efficacy on varying spacecraft materials • Study mechanisms of sterilization by atmospheric pressure plasma. • Develop standards for achieving complete destruction of extremophile microorganisms • Maintain contact with NASA scientists at JPL and the Department of Planetary Protection located in NASA Headquarters to update on advances to the plasma system Graduate Student Researcher, September 2006 – April 2008 Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA • Sterilize spacecraft materials using atmospheric pressure plasma. • Study mechanisms of sterilization by atmospheric pressure plasma. • Maintain contact with NASA scientists at JPL and the Department of Planetary Protection located in NASA Headquarters to update on advances to the plasma system Co-op Student, June 2003 - September 2006 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia • Determine a relationship of the frequency of pediatric asthma-related hospitalizations with PM2.5 and tropospheric ozone concentrations. (Summer 2006) • Develop 3D simulations of the Launch Abort System (LAS) to further be applied as a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) visualization (Fall 2006) • Utilized Mathematica, Excel, and MaxIm imaging software to aide in investigating plasma behavior in various experimental setups. (Summer 2004 and 2005) • Catalogued scientific database searches based on robustness and search results in the Floyd L. Thompson Technical Library (Summer 2003)

Student Data Analyst, July 2002 to May 2005 Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia • Verify data from the SABER (Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry) instrument using Interactive Data Language (IDL) • Used IDL to simulate ion counts taken by the Galileo Plasma instrument HONORS:

• 1st Place Oral Presentation (Math, Physics & Comp. Sci.), 63rd Joint Annual Meeting of the Natn’l Institute of Science & Beta Kappa Chi Honor Soc., March 2006 • Hampton University Presidential Scholarship, 2003-2006

FELLOWSHIPS: • ICOPS Student Travel Grant, 2008

• Lee Smith Fellowship, 2007 • Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Education, 2006-2009 • Drexel Univ. Dean's Fellowship, 2006-present TEACHING ACTIVITIES:

• Teaching within the A-Plus Program at Hampton University, June, 2006 • Developing a one week physics lesson plan for the A-Plus Program at Hampton University, a summer program for high school and middle school students, Spring 2006

PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES: • Referee, 30th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and

Biology Society, August 20 - 24, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. • Referee, 29th Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug 23-26, 2007, Lyon, France. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: • IEEE Member, 2008-Present, Member Number 90350799

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President, Sigma Pi Sigma Physics National Honor Society, 2005-2006, Member 2004-6 Associate Zone Director, Society of Physics Students, 2005-2006 President, Beta Kappa Chi Science Honor Society, 2005-2006, Member 2004-2006 Secretary of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society, 2005-2006 Golden Key International Honor Society, Member 2005-2006

Moogega Cooper, Yong Yang, Gregory Fridman, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Gary Friedman, & Alexander Fridman. “Uniform and Filamentary Nature of ContinuousWave and Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma. (in preparation) • Sameer U. Kalghatgi, Gregory Fridman, Moogega Cooper, G. Nagaraj, M. Peddinghaus, M. Balasubramanian, A. Brooks, V. Vasilets, A. Gutsol, A. Fridman, G. Friedman. “Mechanism of Blood Coagulation by Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma.” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 35(5), Part 2, Oct. 2007, pp. 1559-1566. • RJ Exton, S Popovic, GC Herring, M Cooper. 2005. Levitation using microwaveinduced plasmas. Applied Physics Letters, 86(12).

PUBLICATIONS: •

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: • Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Moogega

Cooper, Nachiket Vaze, Gregory Fridman, Shawn Anderson, Alexandre Tsapin, Alexander Gutsol, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Fridman, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey.

• Moogega Cooper. “Validation of SABER Temperature Measurements Using Groundbased Instruments.” In Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, p. 4099-4101, Anchorage, Alaska, 20-24 Sept., 2004.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Invited

• Fundamental Plasma Kinetics of Decontamination of Biological & Chemical Agents, Alexander Fridman, Alexander Gutsol, Gregory Fridman, Haider Hasan, Moogega Cooper, Nachiket Vaze, Alexander Dolgopolsky, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey. • Medical Aspects of Plasma Interaction with Living Tissue, Gary Friedman, Greg Fridman, Rachel Sensenig, Alexey Shereshevsky, Andrew S. Wu, Marie L. Peddinghaus, Manjula Balasubramanian, Monica Jost, Ari Brooks, Richard Hamilton, Danil Dobrynin, Sameer Kalghatgi, Moogega Cooper, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey.

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Oral Physical and Biological Mechanisms of Plasma Interaction with Living Tissue, G Fridman, D Dobrynin, G. Friedman, A Fridman, 35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), June 15 - 19, 2008, Congress Center Karlsruhe, Germany. Sterilization and Complete Removal of Bacteria Using Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas, M Cooper, G Fridman, N Vaze, D Staack, S Anandan, Y Cho, A Gutsol, A Fridman, A Tsapin, 35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), June 15 - 19, 2008, Congress Center Karlsruhe, Germany. Effects of Substrate Conductivity on Dielectric Barrier Discharge Sterilization Efficacy, M Cooper, G Fridman, N Vaze, A Gutsol, Y Cho, S Anandan, A Tsapin, A Fridman, 35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), June 15 - 19, 2008, Congress Center Karlsruhe, Germany. Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Moogega Cooper, Nachiket Vaze, Shawn Anderson, Gregory Fridman, Victor N. Vasilets, Shivanthi Anandan, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Tsapin, Alexander Fridman, First International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Poster • Phemenological Estimation of Sterilization Kinetics Using Dielectric Barrier Discharge, H Hasan, G Fridman, M Cooper, N Vaze, A Dolgopolsky, A Gutsol, A Fridman, 35th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), June 15 - 19, 2008, Congress Center Karlsruhe, Germany. • Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Moogega Cooper, Nachiket Vaze, Shawn Anderson, Gregory Fridman, Victor N. Vasilets, Shivanthi Anandan, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Tsapin, Alexander Fridman, First International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas. • Characterization of Filament Behavior and Plasma Uniformity in Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharges, Moogega Cooper, Yong Yang, Gregory Fridman, Halim Ayan, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Gary Friedman, & Alexander Fridman, First

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International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas. Modeling Atmospheric Pressure Non-Thermal Plasma Discharge Sterilization, Haider Hasan, Shailesh Gangoli, Moogega Cooper, Greg Fridman, Nachiket Vaze, Alexander Dolgopolsky, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, First International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas. Mechanism of Blood Coagulation by Non-Thermal (Cold) Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma, Sameer Kalghatgi, Gregory Fridman, Gayathri Nagaraj, Moogega Cooper, Manjula Balasubramanian, Ari Brooks, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, Gary Friedman, First International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas. Modification of the Pathogen Detection and Remediation Facility (PDRF) System for Modular Versatility, Ryan Robinson, Gregory Fridman, Nachiket Vaze, Moogega Cooper, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, First International Conference on Plasma Medicine (ICPM-1), October 15th - 18th, 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas. Sterilization of Living Human and Animal Tissue by Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma, Gregory Fridman, Moogega Cooper, Danil Dobrynin, Halim Ayan, Alexander Fridman, Alexander Gutsol, Victor Vasilets, Sameer Kalghatgi, Gary Friedman, Alexey Shereshevsky, Ari Brooks, Marie Peddinghaus, Manjula Balasubramanian, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey. Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Moogega Cooper, Nachiket Vaze, Gregory Fridman, Shawn Anderson, Alexandre Tsapin, Alexander Gutsol, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Fridman, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey. Chemical Kinetics of Air Sterilization Using Atmospheric Pressure Non-Thermal Dielectric Barrier Discharge, Haider Hasan, Shailesh Gangoli, Moogega Cooper, Greg Fridman, Nachiket Vaze, Alexander Dolgopolsky, Victor Vasilets, Alexander Gutsol, Alexander Fridman, NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), Plasma Assisted Decontamination of Biological and Chemical Agents, September 16-26, 2007, Çesme, Turkey. Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, M. Cooper, S. Anderson, G. Fridman, V. Vasilets, A. Gutsol, A. Tsapin, A. Fridman, 18th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, August 26 - 31, 2007, Kyoto, Japan. Spacecraft Sterilization using Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Moogega Cooper, Alexander Fridman, Alexander Gutsol, Victor Vasilets, Gregory Fridman, Shawn Anderson, Alexandre Tsapin, Drexel University Ninth Annual Research Innovation Scholarship and Creativity Day, April 17, 2007, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Observations of Jupiter’s magneto-sheath with the Galileo Plasma Instrumentation, Moogega Cooper, William Paterson. 63rd Joint Annual Meeting of the Natn’l Institute of Science and Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society, March 22-26, 2006, Montgomery, Alabama. Validation of SABER Temperature Measurements Using Ground-based Instruments. Moogega Cooper. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2024 September, 2004, Anchorage, Alaska.

MEDIA APPEARANCES: • “Graduate degrees in engineering promote promising careers,” Sue Marquette Poremba.

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