Education
Clark University, Worcester, MA Physics/Math BA 1976
Brown University, Providence, RI Solid State Physics Ph.D. 1981
Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC Semiconductors NRC Postdoctoral fellow
1981- 1983
Appointments
Hunter College of CUNY Professor (since 1991) of Physics 9/1983 - present
and Doctoral Faculty, CUNY Graduate Center (both Physics and Chemistry)
Visiting Positions & Honors
NATO Senior Guest Investigator, University of Rome, 7/90 - 8/90
Fulbright Scholar, Weizmann Institute of Science, 9/90 - 8/91
U.S. Army Summer Research Fellow, Army Research Laboratory, 6/92 - 8/92
Co-organizer and Proceedings Editor, 4th and 8th International Symposia on
Polymer Electrolytes (Newport, RI, 1994 and Santa Fe, NM, 2002)
Visiting Professor, University of Rome, 6/95 - 7/95
1996 Gordon Lecturer, Gordon Center for Energy Studies, Tel Aviv University,
7/96
NASA/NRC Senior Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Tech., 9/97 - 8/98
US Navy League Roosevelt Gold Medal for Science 2001
2002 Recipient of Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics,
and Engineering Mentoring, National Science Foundation and White House OSTP
2003 Richard Nicholson Excellence in Science Teaching Award, QEM Network
Visiting Professor, Chemistry Dept., Stony Brook Univ. (Fall 2004); Ceramic
and Materials Engineering Dept., Rutgers Univ. (Spring 2005).
