CV

Education:

PhD, Physics, Washington University in St Louis, (1989)

MS, Physics, University of Akron, (1983)

BS, Applied Mathematics, University of Akron, (1982)

Appointments:

Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor,Ohio University, (9/2005-)

Professor of Physics, Ohio University, (9/2001-9/2005)

Associate Professor of Physics, Ohio University, (9/1997-9/2001)

Assistant Professor of Physics, Ohio University, (7/1993-9/1997)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Visiting Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois (7/1992-7/1993)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois(7/1991-7/1992)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics, University of Notre Dame, (4/1989-7/1991)

Honors:

Physics and Astronomy student organization PANDA, Outstanding Professor Award (2024).

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award (2022)

Festschrift: The Form and Function of Disorder, Physica Status Solidi B (2021)

Leverhulme Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (2009)

Distinguished Professor (Elected 2005)

Fellow, American Physical Society (Elected 2003, Division of Materials Physics) Citation: For fundamental contributions to the physics of non-crystalline materials and development of efficient first-principles electronic structure methods.

Fellow, Institute of Physics (United Kingdom) (Elected 2005)

Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar (2002-2007)

Honors Tutorial College Distinguished Mentor Award (2007)

Fellow, Royal Numismatic Society (London) (2009)

American Men and Women of Science, Who’s who etc.

Visiting positions:

Paul Scherrer Institute, Zurich, 1992

Associated Western Universities Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, (1996)

Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, (2001, 2009)

Visiting Professor, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona – CSIC, (2006)

Leverhulme Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, (2009)

Visiting Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge, (2018)

Sabbatical visitor, Dept. of Physics, Auburn University, (2026)

PhD Graduates (25):

phdtree.org link for ancestors and descendants

Funding: Non-NSF sources

Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (DOE): Theory of Ultra-conducting aluminum-graphene materials (2025)

DOE: Fused Deposition Modeling Additive Manufacturing of Carbonized Structures via Waste-Enhanced Filaments (2022-2025)

DOE: Ultra-Conductive Carbon Metal Composite Wire for Electric Motors (2024-2025)

ONR/U. Connecticut: Structural Optimization of Transport Properties in Artificial Interfacial Solids for High ZT Thermoelectrics (2023-2026)

ARO: Charge transport in complex systems (2013-2015)

ARO: Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Monolithic silicon microbolometer materials for uncooled IR detectors (2006-2011)

ONR: Growth, Doping and Contacts for wide-gap semiconductors (1995-2000)

Axon Technologies: Tempe, (2001)

Motorola Inc. (2000)

Funding: NSF awards, 1993-