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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–present)
• 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 and 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)
• Fellow, Royal Numismatic Society (London) (2009)
• Honors Tutorial College Distinguished Mentor Award (2007)
• Distinguished Professor (elected 2005)
• Fellow, Institute of Physics (United Kingdom) (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.
• Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar (2002–2007)
• American Men and Women of Science, Who’s Who, etc.

Visiting positions

• Sabbatical visitor, Dept. of Physics, Auburn University (2026)
• Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge (2018)
• Leverhulme Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (2009)
• Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (2001, 2009)
• Visiting Professor, Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona – CSIC (2006)
• Associated Western Universities Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab (1996)
• Paul Scherrer Institute, Zurich (1992)

PhD graduates (25)

See our former students, and the AcademicTree link for ancestors and descendants.

Funding: non-NSF sources

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (DOE): Theory of Ultra-conducting aluminum-graphene materials (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)
• DOE: Fused Deposition Modeling Additive Manufacturing of Carbonized Structures via Waste-Enhanced Filaments (2022–2025)
• 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)
• Axon Technologies, Tempe (2001)
• Motorola Inc. (2000)
• ONR: Growth, Doping and Contacts for wide-gap semiconductors (1995–2000)

Funding: NSF awards, 1993–present