Program Director
National Facilities
Division of Materials Research
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation

• Place of Birth: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Doctorate in Physics, March 1979, University of Grenoble, France
• Masters in Physics, June 1975, University of Grenoble, France
• BSc in Math and Physics, June 1974, University of Grenoble, France
• Condensed Matter Physics Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Materials Research. (IPA).
• 2004-Current: Adjunct Professor, George Washington University
• 1989- 2004 Clemson University, Clemson SC
• 1982-1989: Memphis State University, Assistant / Associate Professor
• 1988-1989: University of Joseph FOURIER of Grenoble, France, Visiting Professor.
• 1997-1998: Visiting Scientist, NHMFL-Pulsed Field facility
• 1984, 1985, 1986.Visiting Scientist at U.C.L.A., Summer
• 1987: Consultant at The Naval Research Laboratories
• 1987-1988: Visiting Associate Professor, Universite Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France)
• 1980-1982: University of Southern California Post-doctoral Research Associate
• Member of the American Physical Society (1980-current)
• Member of Materials Research Society
• Over 80 publications and contributions in condensed matter physics, metals, semiconductors, superconductors charge density waves under extreme conditions (magnetic, mechanical, temperature ...etc)
• Trained several graduate students