Dr. Roman Bielski
1308 Sheridan Road
Coopersburg, PA 18036
Phone:
(610) 967-9754
Fax:
(856) 467-6317
E-mail: raba@earthlink.net
Specialties:
- Formation and application of micro and nanocapsules for ultra-sensitive detection in biological fluids.
- Food and measurements in petroleum industry.
- Environmental remediation.
- Chemistry of carbohydrates.
- Radiation safety.
- Measurements in petroleum industry.
- Ultra-sensitive detection.
- Formation and modification of polymers.
- Total synthesis (carbohydrates, pheromones, etc.).
- Phase transfer catalysis.
- Synthesis of small molecules containing radioactive atoms.
- Heterogeneous reactions.
- Separations and chiral processes.
Expertise/Achievements:
- Development of microcapsules with density adjusted to that of petroleum products; it enables tagging, measurements and safe delivery of various gasoline additives.
- Development and industrial scale demonstration of a successful method to chemically destroy methyl bromide from fumigations; it employs only non-hazardous reactants.
- Design of ultra-sensitive detection methods employing nanocapsules.
- Design and synthesis of various derivatizing agents containing iodine-125.
- Novel method of synthesizing olefins from diols via bis-xanthates (with D.H.R. Barton).
- Development of a novel method enabling measurements of multi-phase flows (crude oils).
- Design and execution of total syntheses of lineatin and disparlure from monosaccharides.
- Successful execution of a new methodology which uses phase transfer catalysis to transform components of byproducts and waste streams into saleable products.
- Fundamental discovery of a novel approach towards absolute asymmetric synthesis.
- Co-author of more than 30 publications, 11 patents and 12 invited presentations.
Professional Experience:
- 2001 - Present Value Recovery, Inc., Bridgeport, NJ, Senior Chemist
- 1999 - 2001. PetrAmec, Inc., Exton, PA, President and Principal Scientist
- 1995 - 1999. PetroTraces, Inc., Houston, TX and Bethlehem, PA, R&D Manager, Principal Scientist and Radiation Safety Officer
- 1993 - 1997. AttoChrom/Bio Traces, Inc., Fairfax, VA and Bethlehem, PA, Senior Research Scientist
- 1988 - 1992. Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Senior Research Associate
- 1987 - 1988. Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; Visiting Professor
- 1978 - 1987. Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw, Poland, Assistant Professor
- 1976 - 1978. Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK, Postdoctoral Fellow
Education:
- PhD., Organic Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- M.S., Technology of Petrochemical Products, Department of Chemical Technology, Warsaw Institute of Technology
