Honors, Distinctions, Awards, Significant Achievements

• PI grants total $2M received over the past 7 years from NSF, DOE, DoD agencies. Co-investigator in grants exceeding $8M

• Publications Editor, Program Committee member, 53^rd Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference, Nov. 2008, Austin, TX

• Invited Speaker, Novel trends in magnetic materials for electromagnetic applications workshop, Santorini, Greece (September 2008)

• Invited Speaker, Symposium I: Synthesis and metrology of nanoscale oxides and thin films, 2008 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, March 2008, San Francisco, CA

• Invited Speaker, Focus Topic on Complex Oxides, 2008 APS March meeting, New Orleans, LA

• Elevation to Senior Member, IEEE (May, 2007)

• US Patent (#7268563) awarded for “Measurement of point contact Andreev reflection characterstics of half metallic thin films” (September, 2007)

• 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)

• 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