EDUCATION

1969                           B.Sc. Chemistry, Pahlavi University , Shiraz

1974                           Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, Michigan State University , E. Lansing , MI

1974 – 1975              Post. Doc. Ames National Laboratory – Iowa state University, Ames , IA

APPOINTMENTS

2001 – Present         Professor, Department of Chemistry, The George Washington University , Washington DC

1975 – 1979              Research Fellow, Ames National Laboratory – Iowa state University, Ames , IA

1991 – 1996              Program Director, Division of Materials Research National Science Foundation/DMR

2002 – 2005              Program Director, Division of Materials Research National Science Foundation/DMR

2006 – Present         Program Director, Division of Materials Research National Science Foundation/DMR

1975 – 1979              Assistant Professor, Arya–Mehr University of Technology, Tehran

HONORS AND AWARDS

2001             Columbian Distinguished Professorship Award, The George Washington University , Washington DC

2000             Hillebrand Prize, American Chemical Society

1997             Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize, The George Washington University , Washington DC

1990             Columbian College Dean’s Award for Scholarly–Creative Excellence in Research

2004             Distinguished Alumni Award, Pahlavi University , Shiraz

1999             R&D–100 Award

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Spectrochimica Acta, Part B: (Since 1990)

Founding member, Journal of Spectrochimica Acta Electronica (Since 1990)

Applied Spectroscopy (Since 2005)

Quimica Analitica Journal (Since 1998)