Objective:
- Pushing out at the forefront of science and enabling others to do the same.
Education:
- 1980: B.Sc (Physics), Summa cum Laude, University of Ottawa, Canada.
- 1985: Ph.D. (Physics), University of Ottawa, Canada.
Employment:
- 1985-1988: Postdoctoral Fellow of H. Krakauer, College of William & Mary.
- 1988-1990: National Research Council Associate, Naval Research Laboratory.
- 1990-2004: Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).
- 1998-2004: Head, Theory of Functional Materials Section, NRL.
- 2004-present: Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, currently Group Leader, Advanced Materials Group.
- 2009-present: Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Other Positions:
- American Physical Society, Division of Computational Physics, Executive Committee Member, 2010-2013.
- American Physical Society, Publications Oversight Committee, 2009-2012.
- Editorial Board Member, “New Journal of Physics (IOP/DPG), “Phase Transitions” (Taylor and Francis) and “Functional Materials Letters” (World Scientific).
Highlights:
- Fellow of the American Physical Society.
- Conference Organization: “ESCM: Electronic Structure and Magnetism in Complex Materials” Conferences (2000 and 2002); “Quantum Complexities in Condensed Matter” (2003); “Telluride Workshop on Novel Oxides” (2005), “Novel and Complex Materials” (2005); “Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics” (2003, 2009, 2012).
- NRL Technology Transfer Award for Thermoelectrics Work (1998).
- 420+ Scientific Publications, 25,000+ Citations, h-index of 59.
- NRL Sigma-Xi Pure Science Award for 2000.
- E.O. Hulburt Annual Science Award, 2003 (NRL’s highest scientific award).
- ORNL Directors Awards: Individual Achievement in Science & Technology (2008); Group Achievement in Science & Technology (2009).
- Gordon Battelle Prize (2011).
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Thesis Advisor:
- Y.P. Varshni (University of Ottawa, Deceased).
Postdoctoral Advisors:
- H. Krakauer (College of William and Mary)
- Warren E. Pickett (Naval Research Laboratory – currently at U.C. Davis)
Postdoctoral Fellows:
- L. Nordstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden).
- A.Y. Liu (Georgetown University).
- R.W. Nunes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).
- S.G. Kim (Mississippi State University).
- J.E. Pask (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
- N. Marzari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
- M. Fornari (Central Michigan University).
- A. Aguayo (Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Mexico).
- S.V. Halilov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
- D.I. Bilc (Universite de Liege).
- M. Suewattana (Mahidol University, Thailand).
- R. Kagimura (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil).
- H. Takenaka (University of Pennsylvania)
- L. Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory).
- S. Takagi (Tohoku University)
- A.S. Henry (Georgia Tech).
- Xin Chen (Current)
Ph.D. Student:
- Alaska Subedi (MPI Stuttgart)
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