Professional Experience
9/01 - Present  Professor, UIC Chemistry Department
9/01 - Present Adjunct Professor, UIC Bioengineering Department
1996 - 8/01      Associate Professor, UIC Chemistry Department
1998 - 8/01      Associate Professor, UIC Bioengineering Department
1/98 - 5/98       Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Forensic Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
1990 - 1996     Assistant Professor, UIC Chemistry Department
1996 - 1997     Guest Associate, Argonne National Laboratories
1988 - 1990     Postdoctoral Research, Advisor: John T. Yates, Jr., Univ. of Pittsburgh
1984 - 1988     Graduate Research Associate with Scott L. Anderson (now at Utah), State University of New York at Stony Brook

Honors and Awards

UIC Researcher of the Year in the Natural Sciences, 2009
Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, 2009
University of Illinois Junior Scholar, 1995 - 1998
NSF Young Investigator Award in Chemistry, 1994 - 1998
Teaching Recognition Award, UIC, 1997
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Chemistry, 1988 - 1990
SUNY at Stony Brook Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, 1987 – 1988