Awards and Honors: 2003: 3M Corp Young Faculty Award 2004: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Young Faculty Teaching Award 2011: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Award for Excellence at the Student Interface 2011: French Ministry of Higher Education and Research Univ-Link Excellence Award for US-France academic collaboration 2011: Invited Professor: University of Rennes, France 2013: Invited Professor: Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China 2016: Senior Member of SPIE 2019: University of Arizona, College of Engineering Award for Excellence at the Student Interface   Selected relevant scientific activities: Chalcogenide Glasses: Development of novel infrared telluride glasses exhibiting the widest optical transparency ever reported in the far-infrared. First demonstration of low-loss optical fiber for the long-wave infrared with single mode propagation at 10 microns. Optical Biosensing: Development of first opto-electrophoretic sensors based on conducting chalcogenide glass that act as both an optical element for infrared signal collection and an electrode for electrophoretic capture of target bio-molecules. Photo-induced structural changes Development of first model for photo-induced fluidity in network glass predicting fluidity based on photon count. Demonstration of the correlation between the bond density in network glass and the magnitude of photo-structural changes.   Research Funding: (last 5 years: $10.2M)   Northrop-Grumman, $50K, 2018-2019, “Additive Manufacturing of infrared glass” (PI) NSF-DMR, $563K, 2018-2022, “Fragile-to-Strong Transitions in Phase-Change Materials for Next-Generation Memory Devices” (PI) TRIF Equipment Enhancement Fund, $119K, 2018-1019 “Broadening the user base of the confocal Raman spectrometer in the Kuiper Facility” (PI) Keck Foundation, $900K 2017-2020 “A new era of computing: Phase (φ)-bits, a new paradigm for quantum information processing” (Co-PI)