Professional Experience

2021 - present: Director, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Binghamton University
2018 - present: Director, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Renewable Energy Generation and Storage, Binghamton University
2018 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University
2014 - present: Faculty Member, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Binghamton University
2012 - 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy, Binghamton University
2010 - 2012: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellow, Princeton University
2007 - 2010: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, CNRS/University of Strasbourg, France
Summer 2006: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Program Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan

Education

2001 - 2006 PhD in Physics, McGill University, Canada
1999 - 2001 MSc in Physics, McMaster University, Canada
1996 - 1999 BSc in Physics, McGill University, Canada

Distinctions and Awards

2022 Featured as Pioneering Investigator in Chemical Communications
2016 - 2022 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2014 Featured as Emerging Investigator in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
2014 Featured as Emerging Investigator in Chemical Communications
2010 - 2012 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Fellowship
2007 - 2010 Marie Curie (European Union) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 - 2009 FQRNT (Quebec) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2007 Best Poster Award, European Conference on Molecular Electronics
2006 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Program Fellowship
2004 - 2005 Carl Reinhardt McGill Major Fellowship
2004 Best Poster award, Trends in Nanotechnology Conference
2003 CAP/NSERC (Canada) Student Presenter Award
2002 - 2004 NSERC (Canada) Postgraduate Scholarship
2002 - 2004 FQRNT (Quebec) Doctoral Research Scholarship (declined award)
2002 - 2004 W. C. Sumner (Canada) Memorial Fellowship
2001 - 2002 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined award)
2000 - 2001 Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology