University and Departmental Services

  1. Member, Executive Committee, College of Arts nd Sciences, CWRU, 2015 – 2018
  2. Chair, Graduate Admissions, Dept. of Chemistry, CWRU, 2010 – 2015
  3. Advisor for ~12 undergraduate and graduate students, CWRU | 2001 – Present
  4. Co-Director, Center for Chemical Dynamics (CCD), CWRU | 2002 – Present
  5. Director, Analytical Core Facility for Nanomaterials, CWRU | 2005 – Present
  6. Member, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, CWRU School of Medicine | 2004 – Present
  7. Co-Founder, Cleveland NanoCrystals Inc. through CWRU Technology Ventures | 2004 – 2007
  8. Member, Nanotechnology Steering Committee, CWRU | 2003 – 2015
  9. Chemistry Department Representative, NSF-MSP, CWRU | 2002 – 2007
  10. Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Chemistry, CWRU | 2003
  11. Member, Undergraduate Recruiting Committee, Department of Chemistry, CWRU | 2001 – Present

K-12 Outreach Programs in Cleveland:

  • Outreach Spectroscopy Lectures/Shows to Cleveland Elementary Schools | 2003 – Present
  • Talks in public libraries to children and parents on spectroscopy and nanoscience | 2003 – Present
  • Teaching & Course Development, Summer School for Cleveland High School Teachers (NSF-MSP) | 2002 – Present
  • High School Visits and Lectures on Nanoscience and Chemistry | 2002 – Present
  • Proposal Reviewer for: NSF, ACS-PRF, DOE, DOD, NIH, etc.

Editorial Review for Journals

  1. Editorial Board Member (since 2010) | Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy (Springer)
  2. Editorial Board Member (since 2002) | International Journal of Nanotechnology (Inderscience)
  3. Chairman and Proceedings Editor | SPIE-Optics and Photonics (2005)
  4. Reviewer for Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Advanced Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Photochemistry and Photobiology, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, Inorganic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemistry, EES, etc.

Other Academic Services

  1. Co-organizer of the 2015 ACS Protein-Nanomaterial Interfaces Meeting  |  Boston, MA
  2. Co-organizer of the 2015 Inter-American Photochemistry Conference  |  Sarasota, FL
  3. Co-organizer of 2015 ACS Meeting  |  Boston, MA
  4. Session Chair of “Ultrafast Photochemistry” at 2013 Inter-American Photochemical Society Meeting  |  Sarasota, FL
  5. Conference Session Co-organizer for the 2013 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium  |  Washington, D.C.
  6. Co-organizer of “Sufrace, Colloids, and Nanomaterials 2012: A Joint Universirty of the Philippines – Case Western Reserve University Symposium” at the University of the Philipines  |  Manila, Philipines
  7. Co-organizer of the 2012 International Conference of Clean Energy  |  Xi’an, China
  8. Co-organizer of 2007 ACS Meeting  |  San Fransisco, CA
  9. Co-organizer and Secretary for the 1999 IUPAC Workshop on Advanced Materials  |  Hong Kong, China
  10. Organizer and Co-chair of the 2005 conference on “Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials IV”, SPIE MEeting  |  San Diego, CA