Recipient of the 2009 R&D 100 Award as a co-inventor of the TEAM electron microscopy stage
2009 Doctor Honoris Causa from Linköping University, Sweden
Recipient of the 2009 Bunshah award
TEAM Project Institutional Committee and Editorial Board member 2004-2009
Visiting Professor of Surface Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University 2000-2012
Chair of the Surface Engineering Division of IUVSTA 2007-2009
Editor of Surface and Coatings Technology
Co-chair of Midwest AVS Symposium/ IUVSTA Highlight Seminar and ECM 106, April 2009
elected to the FS-MRL Executive Committee
AVS activities
Editorships
1993 – present Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Vacuum
1995 Proceedings Editor of International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films" (ICMCTF), San Diego
1995 Guest editor in the international journal of Thin Solid Films
1995 Guest editor in the international journal of Surface and Coatings Technology
1996 Proceedings Editor of ICMCTF, San Diego
1996 Guest editor in the international journal of Thin Solid Films
1996 Guest editor in the international journal of Surface and Coatings Technology
1999 Editor of the Proceedings of MRS Symposium Advances in Materials Problem Solving with the Electron Microscope
2000 - present Associate Editor of AVS' Surface Science Spectra
2007 - present Editor of Elsevier Surface and Coatings Technology
Organization of Scientific Conferences
VEIT - program committee member 1978-2009
PSE - 2006 - 2008
AVS International Symposium
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1992)
Chairman of VMD Program Committee and Session Chairman Session Chairman (1993)
Chairman of VMD Program Committee and Session Chairman Session Chairman (1994)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1995)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1996)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1997)
Session Chairman (1998)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1999)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (2000)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (2001)
Co-chair of Topical Conference on In-Situ Electron Microscopy (2007 and 2008)
International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1992)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1993)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1994)
Proceedings Editor and Session Chairman (1995)
Proceedings Editor and Session Chairman (1996)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (1997)
Program Chairman (1998)
General Chairman (1999)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (2000)
Member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman (2001)
Symposium Chair (2002-2008)
International Union of Vacuum Science, Technique and Application (IUVSTA)
Member of the international advisory committee of the 11th IUVSTA International Conference on Thin Films, Cancun, Mexico, August 30- September 3, 1999
Member of the international advisory committee of the IUVSTA Workshop on Selective and Functional Film Deposition Technologies as Applied to ULSI Technology, Mie, Japan, November 19-24, 2000
Chair of IUVSTA HIPIMS Workshop, Belgium, November 2008
Chair of IUVSTA Workshop, Busan, Korea, September 2009
Materials Research Society
MRS Fall meeting: Symposium Organizer, Symposium Q: Advances in Materials Problem Solving with the Electron Microscope (1999)
University of Illinois Conferences
Chair, Surface Analysis 2003- The 25th Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, University of Illinois, June 3-6, 2003
Chair, Gatan Nanofactory Workshop, University of Illinois, Nov 14-15, 2005
Chair, MMMS05: Dynamics of Materials Revealed by Electron Microscopy, June 9-10, 2005
European Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering, member of the international advisory committee (2004, 2006, 2008)
Chair The 67th Annual Physical Electronics Conference, University of Illinois, June 19-22, 2007