Experience
Jasmina Pasalic is an Engineering Development Technician in JPL’s Electrochemcial Technologies Group. She supports the group’s goals of researching advanced storage energy technologies by performing a wide range of laboratory tasks such as materials testing, optimizing electrode fabrication, fabricating and testing batteries, carrying out failure analysis, and performing lab organization for efficient operations.
Jasmina has over 20 years of experience in the field of research and technology development. Prior to joining JPL, she worked as a Research Technician for Nanostream, which developed and manufactured capital equipment that speed drug discovery and development. In this role, she performed a variety of technical activities including manufacturing of microfluidic devices, quality control data analysis, biochemical sample preparation and high-performance liquid chromatography. Jasmina has also worked at Superprotonic, a fuel cell/energy technology company established to market and commercialize an innovative solid acid fuel cell technology developed and patented by the company's founders at the California Institute of Technology. She worked with a team that had scaled up technology from a pile of nickel-sized cells with a lifetime of less than 100 hours to a stack of five-inch plates that could produce 50 Watts of power for nearly 1,000 hours. She also worked at Contour Energy Systems, a startup with collaboration of Caltech and CNRS, the French National Center of Scientific Research. The company was pioneering breakthrough advancements in new fluorine-based battery chemistries, nano-materials science and manufacturing processes.