Honors, Distinctions, Awards, Significant Achievements

Elevation to Senior Member, IEEE (May, 2007)

PI grants total $1.5M received over the past 7 years from NSF and DoD agencies. Co-investigator in grants exceeding $7M

US Patent (#7268563) awarded for “Measurement of point contact Andreev reflection characterstics of half metallic thin films”

Publications Editor, Program Committee member and Session Chair, 52^nd Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference, Tampa, Nov. 5 – 9, 2007

Invited Speaker in the Magnetism and Spintronics session, IUMRS-International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM), Bangalore, India, October 2007

Invited Speaker in Symposium J “Materials for Advanced Sensors and Devices” at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT 2007), Singapore, July 2007

Invited Speaker, 13^th Czech and Slovak Conference on Magnetism, Kosice, Slovakia, July 2007

Co-organizer of DMP/GMAG sponsored Focus Topic –“Magnetic Nanostructures: Materials and Phenomena” at the 2007 APS March meeting to be held in Denver, CO

Invited Speaker at the Nanomaterials Symposium, TMS 2007 Conference, Orlando, FL

Research nugget featured on NSF-CTS program website: http://www.nsf.gov/eng/cts/nuggets/1415/index.jsp

Nominee, APS GMAG Executive Committee – Member-at-Large position (2007)

Publications Editor and Program Committee member for 10^th joint INTERMAG/MMM Conference to be held in Baltimore, MD (Jan. 2007)

Brought in over $1M worth of PI grants over the past 5 years from NSF and DoD agencies.

Co-PI and core group member on several major interdisciplinary education and instrumentation grants such as the IGERT, REU, MRI from NSF.

Invited speaker at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2005 meeting, Boston, MA

Appointed by the Dean to a two year-term on the College of Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee (2005)

Tenured and promoted to Associate Professor at University of South Florida (2004)

Publications Editor and Program Committee member for the 50^th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) held in Nov. 2005 (San Jose, CA)

Awarded 3-year grant from NSF – CTS Division –“Magnetocaloric effect in nanoparticle assemblies for refrigeration applications” (2004)

Session Chairman, DQ “Soft magnetic materials I”, 49^th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), Nov. 2004, Jacksonville, FL

Advisory Committee member of Low Temperature Physics (LT-24) conference (Orlando, 2005)

Invited speaker at the Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM-13) international conference to be held in Singapore in December 2004

Invited speaker at the second Seeheim Conference on Magnetism (SCM 2004), Seeheim, Germany (June 26 – July 2, 2004)

Invited speaker at the IEEE NTC Quantum Device Technology Workshop, May 2004, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (http://www.clarkson.edu/CQDT/)

USF President’s Award for Faculty Excellence (2003)

Invited speaker at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting in 2003

Patent disclosure on “Integrated point contact junction system for studies on magnetic and superconducting materials” with co-inventor and grad student Jeff Sanders (2003)

Faculty mentor in NSF-REU site on “Integrated Interdisciplinary Nanoscience REU” at USF (2003-2006)

Awarded 3-year grant from Department of Army -“Ordered nanoparticle arrays on tunable substrates for RF device applications” (2003)

Awarded Summer Research Grant from Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) to support graduate student research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2003 & 2001)

Proposal reviewer for US Department of Energy (2003)

Awarded 3-year NSF-GOALI grant to develop new nanostructured magnetic materials for advanced electromagnetic applications (2002)

Co-PI and core group member of NSF-IGERT (Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, Research and Training) grant awarded to USF (2002)

Awarded a 2-year subcontract from Materials Modification Inc. in an NSF Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant (2002)

Co-authored paper on discovery of nanoscale Kagome molecular magnetism highlighted under ‘News and Views’ in the Oct. 1, 2002 issue of Nature Materials.

Proposal reviewer for US Army Research Office (2002)

Local Chairman, 47^th Annual conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM), Tampa, Nov. 2002

Patent disclosure on “Nanoscale Kagome Lattices” filed jointly with Dr. Mike Zaworotko and Mr. Brian Moulton of USF Chemistry department (2002).

Recipient of a Nanoscale Exploratory Research (NER) grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) under the National Nanotechnology Initiative program (2001)

Invited speaker and session chair, 8^th Annual joint INTERMAG/MMM conference, San Antonio, TX (2001)

Invited speaker, International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Singapore (2001)

Awarded DoD subcontract from DARPA/Univ. of New Orleans (2000)

Panelist and proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation –Division of Electrical Communication Systems (ECS), Division of Materials Research (DMR) & Division of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation (DMII). (1999 – present)

Awarded Louisiana State Board of Regents Support Fund under the Industrial Ties Research Support (ITRS) program at University of New Orleans. (1999)

Research Institution Investigator in NSF Phase 1 STTR grant awarded to Materials Modification Inc. and University of New Orleans (1999)

Recipient of National Research Council (NRC) Associateship from Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB (1998)

Invited Speaker and session chair, American Physical Society (APS) annual March meeting (1997)

Organizing committee: Conference on Spectroscopies of Novel Superconductors, Cape Cod, MA (1997)

Referee for journals: Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (1996 – present)

Member of Professional Societies: American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), The Metals, Materials and Minerals Society (TMS) (1995 – present)

Selected to participate in two international workshops on superconductivity at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy with full financial assistance (1991, 1992)

Recipient of first prize in the Young Physicists Colloquium (national level competition), Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India (1992)

Over 35 talks and colloquia in Universities and National Laboratories

Over 50 contributed presentations at major professional conferences

Over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals