Professional Activities

Academic Rank

• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
• Graduate Faculty Member, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
• Graduate Faculty Member, Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota
• Graduate Faculty Member, Physics, University of Minnesota
• Graduate Faculty Member, Scientific Computing, University of Minnesota
• Graduate Faculty Member, Multiscale Science and Engineering Center, University of Minnesota

Positions/Employment

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering	2011 – Present
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering	2005 – 2011
Rice University, Houston Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of MechanicalEngineering and Materials Science	2000 – 2004
Freie Universitaet, Berlin Postdoctoral Associate Department of Physics	2003 (six months)
Texas A&M University, College Station Teaching/Research Assistant Department of Physics	1996 – 2000

Honors and Awards:

• Richard and Barbara Nelson Professorship, 2005 – 2011     
• Associate Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 2007 – Present
• EcoleCentrale Paris Fellowship, 2013
• Next Generation of the Professoriate - Teaching with Technology, 2006 – 2007
• NSF CAREER Award,Nano and Bio Mechanics Program, Division of Engineering, 2008

Visiting Scholar Positions

• Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Dresden, Winter 2012and Summer 2013 [Sponsored InternationalVisit]
• Ecole Centrale Paris, Fall 2012 and Summer 2013[Sponsored International Visit]
• Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, Spring 2012[Sponsored International Visit]
• Beijing Computational Science Research Center, August 2011 [Sponsored International Visit]
• University of Manitoba, September 2008[Sponsored International Visit]
• Universitaet Kassel, Department of Physics, Summer 2004[SponsoredInternational Visit]