Materials Science Division

Education

• Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Purdue University

Present Position

• Senior Scientist and Group Leader of the Superconductivity & Magnetism Group, Materials Science Division

Professional Experience

• Aug 2007 - Present Senior Physicist, Materials Science Division
• May 1994 - Jul 2007 Physicist, Materials Science Division
• Dec 1988 - Apr 1994 Assistant Physicist, Materials Science Division
• Sep 1988 - Dec 1988 Term Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
• Dec 1987 - Sep 1988 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory

Selected Awards

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1999
• University of Chicago Outstanding Accomplishment Award, 1998
• Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Materials Science, 1997
• Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Materials Science, 1990

Selected Professional Activities

• Editor, Physica C, 2003- Present
• External Reviewer: Center of Excellence (COE) program, Tsukuba University, Japan, March. 12 – 13, 2007
• Conference Main Organizer: International Conference on Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Magnetism, Chicago, IL, Aug. 28 – Sept. 1, 2006
• Co-Chair and Report Editor, Dept. of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Basic
• Research Needs for Superconductivity,May 2006 (with John Sarrao (Los Alamos National Laboratory)).
• Discussion coordinator: US-Spain Workshop on Nanoscale Materials, Segovia, Spain, Sept. 20-23, 2005
• Program Committee member & session chair: VORTEX IVConference on Vortex Matter in Nanostructured Superconductors, Crete, Greece, Sept. 2005.
• Co-organizer: ITS sponsored workshop on "The Possibility of Room Temperature Superconductivity and Related Topics", June 10-11, 2005 at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,
• INUS-coordinator: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS-CTC) Core-to-Core Program on Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductors (2004 – present).
• Academic Advisory Board Chairman: Joint Argonne – University of Notre Dame Institute for
• Theoretical Sciences (2004-present)
• Chairman: American Physical Society/DMP- focus session on high temperature superconductors, Minneapolis, MN, March-2000
• Session Chairman: International Workshop on Vortex Physics in High-Temperature
• Superconductors, Hachimantai, Japan, June 21-26, 1998
• Discussion moderator: International Workshop on New Physics in the Vortex State of the High
• Temperature Superconductors, Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, Hatoyama, Japan, April 11-13, 1996
• Workshop Organizer: Workshop on Vortex Dynamics, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, June 24-29, 1995
• Co-Chairman: Workshop on Flux Dynamics in High Temperature Superconductors (NSF- Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity), March 13-14, 1992
• Session Chairman: 18th Rare Earth Research Conference, Lake Geneva, WI, Sept. 12-16, 1988
• Associate Member, Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity, supported by the National Science Foundation
• External examiner, Ph.D Thesis Committee for S. Fleshler, Purdue University; J. Fendrich, Iowa State University; A. Petrean, Western Michigan University; R. Olsson, Michigan State University; Lucien Undreiu, Western Michigan University; Ana Mazilu, University of Illinois at Chicago; Ruobing Xie, University of Notre Dame; Umesh Patel, Northern Illinois University

Research Interests

• Materials science
• Nanoscale superconductors and magnets
• Vortex matter in superconductors
• Highly correlated electrons in metals
• Physics of granular matter

Research Supervision

• 12 Ph.d, diplome students and postdocs supervised since 1990
• Supervised over 20 undergraduate science majors in the Science and Engineering Research Semester (SERS) program supported by the DOE-Division of Educational Programs since 1985.