Professional Service Activities

Membership in Professional Societies

 

American Physical Society (APS)

Materials Research Society (MRS)

IEEE Magnetics Society (Senior Member, IEEE)

The Metals, Minerals and Materials Society (TMS)

 

 

Conference Service

 

Publications Editor & Program Committee member, 53rd MMM Conference to be held in Austin, TX (Nov. 2008)

 

Advisory Committee Member, “Disorder, Complexity and Biology (DISCOMB ’09)” to be held in Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (Jan 2009)

 

Publications Editor & Program Committee member, 52nd MMM Conference to be held in Tampa, FL (Nov. 2007)

 

Session Chairman, 52nd MMM conference, Tampa, FL [Nov. 2007, GB: Multiferroics]

 

Co-organizer of GMAG/DMP sponsored Focus Topic “Magnetic Nanostructures: Materials & Phenomena” at the 2007 APS March Meeting, Denver, CO.

 

Publications Editor & Program Committee member, 10th joint INTERMAG/MMM Conference, Baltimore, MD (Jan. 8 – 11, 2007)

 

Best Poster Award Selection Committee, 10th joint INTERMAG/MMM Conference, Baltimore, MD (Jan. 8 – 11, 2007)

 

Session Chairman, CIMTEC 2006 Conference, Acireale, Sicily (June 2006). Session title: “Magnetic Ceramics”.

 

Session Chairman, APS March Meeting 2006, March 13 – 17, 2006, Baltimore, MD

[G22 Focus Session: “Magnetic Nanoparticles I”]

 

Publications Editor & Program Committee Member, 50th annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference (Nov. 2005, San Jose, CA)

 

Session Chairman, “CH: Itinerant Magnetism”, 50th annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference (Nov. 2005, San Jose, CA)

 

Session Chairman, 49th annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference, November 7 - 11, 2004 in Jacksonville, FL.

 

Conference Report, Invited by conference organizers and publisher to write the conference report for the second Seeheim Conference on Magnetism (SCM 2004), Seeheim, Germany (July 2004)

 

Advisory Committee Member, Low Temperature Physics (LT-24) conference to be held in Orlando, FL (2005)

 

Local Chairman, 47th annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference, November 11 – 15, 2002  in Tampa.

 

Session Chairman, 47th annual Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference, November 11 – 15, 2002  in Tampa.  [Responsible for chairing session FG on “Ferrites, Garnets and other Microwave Materials”]

 

Session Chairman, 8th joint IEEE Magnetics/MMM conference, Jan. 2001, San Antonio, Tx

[Responsible for chairing session EP on “Anisotropic magnetoresistance, magnetoimpedance and Hall effect”]

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

 

 

Proposal and Panel Reviewer activites for federal funding agencies

 

Proposal Reviewer, NSF CAREER program, Division of Materials Research (DMR)

Panelist, NSF IMR/MRI program, Division of Materials Research (DMR)

Panelist for NSF Chemical Transport Systems Division

Panel Reviewer for NSF Division of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation (DMII) SBIR Phase I and Phase II programs

Panelist for NSF Electronics, Photonics and Device technology proposals. NSF – ECS division

Panel Reviewer for NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering programs

Proposal reviewer for NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR) Ceramics and Condensed Matter Physics Programs (2000 – present)

Proposal reviewer for Army Research Office (ARO) Materials Science program

Proposal reviewer for Department of Energy (DoE) Condensed Matter Physics

Proposal reviewer for ACS Petroleum Research Fund

Proposal reviewer for US Civilian Research Development Foundation (CRDF)

 

Reviewer activities for professional journals

 

·                       Physical Review Letters

·                       Physical Review B

·                       Journal of Applied Physics

·                       Applied Physics Letters

·                       Applied Physics A

·                       IEEE Transactions of Magnetics

·                       Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

·                       Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

·                       Advanced Functional Materials

·                       Journal of Materials Research

·                       Materials Letters

·                       Journal of Materials Science

·                       Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

·                       Solid State Electronics

·                       Chemistry of Materials

·                       Polymer International

·                       Journal of American Chemical Society

·                       Langmuir

 

 

University Governance and Service activities [@ Univ. of South Florida]

 

·         Physics Department Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) (2002 – 2005, 2007 - 2009)

·         Physics Faculty Search Committee (2007-08)

·         Steering Committee: USF Functional Multi-scale Materials by Design (FMMD) initiative

·         Physics Faculty Search Committee (2006 – 2007)

·         Physics Faculty Search Committee (2005 – 2006)

·         College of Arts & Sciences Tenure & Promotion Committee (2005 – 2007)

·         Physics Department Graduate Recruitment Committee (2005 - present)

·         CAS Dean’s Search Committee (2004)

·         Review panelist for USF internal grants (Fall 2003)

·         Physics Department Faculty Search Committee (2003-2004)

·         Physics Department Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) (2002 – 2005)

·         Physics Faculty Search Committee (2002 – 2003)

·         Colloquium Chairman (2001 – 2002)

·         Physics Faculty Search Committee (2001 – 2002)

·         Physics Faculty Search committee (2000 – 2001)

·         Physics Department Graduate Committee (2000 – present)

·         USF College of Arts and Sciences Nobel Laureate Lecture series organizing committee (2002 – 2004)