Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 1974
M.A., University of Texas at Arlington, 1972
B.S., University of Texas at Arlington, 1970
Professional Background
- University of Minnesota
- College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor, 1998-present
- Professor, 1990-present
- Associate Professor, 1986-90
- Assistant Professor, 1980-86
- Research Associate, 1978-80
- College of Science and Engineering, Distinguished Professor, 1998-present
- Chair of IUPAP -C9 Committee, 2006- 2009
- Elected Vice-President of IUPAP 2006-2009
- Elected to Executive Board of American Physical Society 2001-2002
- Selected as a member of the APS Visiting Scientist Program, 2001-present
- Member of APS Committee on Committees 2001-2003 (Chair in 2002)
- Member of David Adler Lectureship Award selection committee 2001-2002 (Chair in 2002- resigned for conflict of interest)
- Member of APS Committee on Education (2000-2002)
- Friend of Physics, appointed by President Judy Franz, 1999-present
Partial List of Service to the Community
- Elected to APS Panel on Public Affairs, POPA (2016-2017) and elected to the four-year Chair line (2018-2021)
- Elected AAAS Physics Councilor (2016-2018)
- Elected Secretary/Treasurer of APS Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public (2012-present)
- Elected Vice-President of IUPAP 2006-2009
- Elected to Executive Board of American Physical Society 2001-2002
- Selected as a member of the APS Visiting Scientist Program, 2001-present
- Member of APS Committee on Committees 2001-2003 (Chair in 2002)
- General Chairman of the Ninth Joint Intermag and Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, 2001
- Elected Divisional Councilor to the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the American Physical Society, 1 Jan. 1999- 2002
Scientific & Professional Societies
American Physical Society
