About Us
Dr. Matt
Aldissi founded Fractal Systems
Inc. in the early part of 1997. His prior two appointments were at Foster-Miller Inc. and Cape Cod Research as a senior staff
scientist, where he worked on the development of conducting and ferromagnetic polymers,
semiconductors and nanocomposites. He has also developed electrode materials
for capacitors and batteries. Prior to that, he held the position of research
fellow, then vice president for Advanced Technology at Champlain Cable Corp., Colchester, VT (1/1990-10/1993). There, he
developed applications of conductive, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric polymers
in the wire and cable industry. Prior to that, he was a research staff member
at Los Alamos National Laboratory
(January 1983 to January 1990), working on different aspects of conductive
polymers for various applications including EMI shielding, batteries,
photovoltaics, electrochromic, electroluminescence and nonlinear optical
properties, ferroelectric polymers and biomaterials. Prior to Los Alamos, he held a postdoctoral
position working on conductive polymers at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Oct., 81-Jan. 83).
Dr. Aldissi received his BS in
chemistry, MS in polymer chemistry and Ph.D. in polymer science, all from the Univ. of Montpellier, France. He is the
author of more than 100 publications and more than 25 patents and patent
applications, and winner of two R&D 100 awards (1989 and 90). Dr. Aldissi
taught a graduate course on conducting polymers at the Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, and is teaching short courses with Advanced Polymer Courses. He chaired a
working group for the Department of Energy on the use of conducting polymers in
surface transportation applications in 1992. He is a member of the American
Chemical, Electrochemical and Materials Research Societies.
Dr. Bogomolova is a Senior Staff Scientist at Fractal Systems, Inc. since
incorporation of the Company. She obtained her M.S. in Chemistry, from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1985
and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology,
Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991. She was a Research Assistant at the
Institute of Biotechnology, Moscow in 1991-1993, Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Institute of Biotechnology, Moscow from 1988-1991, Postdoctoral Fellow in 1993
at TUFTS University, Biochemistry Dept, Boston, USA, Research Associate at
TUFTS University/Catalytic Antibodies Inc. in 1993-1996, Research Associate at
TUFTS University, Physiology Dept. in 1996, Scientist at One Cell Systems, Inc
in 1997 and Senior Research Scientist at Fractal Systems, Inc from Jan, 1998 to
present.
Dr. Özlem Yavuz joined Fractal Systems (January, 2002) as a
senior scientist. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry “Carbazole
Containing Polymers” (12/99), M.S. in Physical Chemistry “Polymer-Metal-Protein
Complexes” (6/95), and B.S. in Physical Chemistry “Corrosion of Pyrite” (2/93)
all at Istanbul Technical Univ., Turkey. She had a postdoctoral fellowship at
the Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Central Florida (4/00-11/01), a Visiting
Scientist at Dept. of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Univ. of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, UK (3/97-8/97, 8/98-10/98), and a Research Assistant at Istanbul
Technical Univ. (1/94-4/00).
Dr. Yavuz’s areas of expertise are: (i) Catalytic Reactions:
Redox Polymerization of Acrylamide by Using Ce (IV)-Oxalic Acid Redox pair,
Radical polymerization of Acrylamide and N-Vinylcarbazole using AIBN, Catalytic
Behavior of Electrochemically Prepared Polycarbazole and Co-Electropolymerized
Acrylamide and Carbazole Film, (ii) Synthesis and Characterization of Organic
Conductive Polymers, (iii) Optical Characterization of Polymerica Films, (iv)
Spectrophotometric and Electrochemical Characterization of Organic Dyes, (v)
Fluoresence Measurements: Single-Photon Fluoresence of Organic Dyes, Two-Photon
Fluorescence Study of Organic Dyes and Life Time Measurements, (vi) Corrosion
Inhibition and Photactive Behavior of N-Substituted Polycarbazole Coated
Natural Pyrite, Corrosion of Pyrite in Neutral, Acidic and Basic Medium, Effect
of Polyacrylic Acid and Polyvinylpyrrolidone on Fe and Cu Corrosion, and (vii)
Voltammetric and Spectrophotmetric Studies of Polymer-Metal-Protein Complexes.
Dr. Elena Komarova has received her MS in polymer science
and engineering from Mendeleyev University for Chemical Technology of Russia
(March 1997, Moscow, Russia). She graduated with Ph.D. in Photochemical Sciences
from Bowling Green State University in August 2002. She joined Fractal Systems,
Inc. in December 2002.
Krista Reber joined Fractal Systems, Inc. in October of
2000 with a BSc. in chemistry from the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Krista Reber joined Fractal Systems
in October of 2000. She graduated
Summa cum laude from the University of
South Florida, Tampa with a B.Sc. in chemistry. During her undergraduate studies she had received several awards
including the Inorganic Chemistry Award (1999), American Chemical Society Analytical Chemistry Award (00), Outstanding
B. Sc. Chemistry Major Award (00), and has been on the National Dean’s List,
and the Dean’s List of Scholars. She
has also been a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and
the National Golden Key Honor Society. At FSI she has been actively involved
in the assembly and characterization
of both TiN and highly conductive
ICP capacitors. Her
ICP capacitor work involved experimentally optimizing the parameters
needed to develop high surface area conducting polymer electrodes with wide
voltage windows. The processing techniques included both electrochemical
and chemical synthesis of polymers such as polypyrrole, polyaniline, and polythiophenes.
Analysis techniques she performed on these materials include FTIR,
UV-vis, Atomic Force Microscopy, and CH Instruments Electrochemical Workstation
(Impedance, cyclic voltammetry etc). Other
projects she had been involved with include conductive poly(methyl acrylate)
films, electrophoresis, and radar
absorbing materials.