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Awards

2024 Faculty Merit Award in Teaching, Saint Joseph's University
2023 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Saint Joseph's University
2023 Faculty Service Merit Award, Saint Joseph's University
2023 Faculty Merit Award in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Saint Joseph's University
2022 William F. Homiller Award for Teaching Excellence, University of the Sciences
2021 Second Place, Greater Philadelphia Social Innovator Award
2021 Outstanding Chapter Advisor in the Nation, Society of Physics Students and American Institute of Physics
2018 Inaugural Award, Charles Kaufman Foundation Integrated Research & Education Award
2016 Bright Ideas Award for Teaching, University of the Sciences
2011-2015 Blanchard Professorial Chair in Physics and Mathematics
2008 Allan Rothwarf Award for Teaching Excellence, Drexel University

PI, $100,000.00 Undergraduates Investigating Quantum Effects in Multi-Gap Superconductivity in Novel Superconductors, The Charles Kauffman Foundation (2018-2022)
PI, $ 66,300.00 RUI: Probing the Energy Gap of “Clean” MgB2 using High Resolution Tunneling Spectroscopy, National Science Foundation (2015-2020)
Co-PI, $ 50, 000 STEM Research Summer Scholarships, J&J Pharmaceuticals (2021-2022, 2022-23, 2023-2024, 2024-2025)
Co-PI, $ 17, 500 STEM Equity Research Scholars, Bristol-Myers Squibb (2021-2022)
PI, $35, 000.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2024-2025)
PI, $35, 000.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2023-2024)
PI, $35, 818.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2022-2023)
PI, $29. 975.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2021-2022)
PI, $29,914.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2019-2021)
PI, $25,507.00 Constellation Energy to Educate Grant (2018-2019) + $25, 507.00 matching
PI, $ 15,000.00 Physics Wonder Girls Camp: A Summer STEM Day Camp for Middle School Girls, The Lindback Foundation (2017)
PI, $ 8, 255.00 Physics Wonder Girls Camp, Puratos Corporation (2018) + $ 8, 255.00 matching
PI, $ 8, 000.00 Physics Wonder Girls Camp, Puratos Corporation (2019)
PI, $4,300.00 Incorporating Optics and Photonics in a Physics Girls Camp, SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics (2018)

PI, $623,337.00 NSF S-STEM Scholarship Program, Indiana Wesleyan University - IWU (2015)
PI, $230, 000.00 NSF RUE "Probing the Energy Gap of “Clean” MgB2 using High Resolution Tunneling Spectroscopy" (2012), IWU
PI, $460,000 NSF S-STEM Scholarship Program, Drexel University (2007)

Employment History before University of the Sciences/Saint Joseph's University

1. Indiana Wesleyan University (Sept 2011-Aug 2015)

Blanchard Endowed Chair of Physics and Mathematics/Associate Professor of Physics

PI/Program Director, NSF-IWU S-STEM Scholarship Program funded at $623,337.00

PI, NSF-RUI Superconductivity Research grant, funded at $230,000.00

Advisor, Society of Physics Students Chapter

2. Drexel University (Sept 2004-Aug 2011)

Assistant Professor of Physics

Demonstrated microwave resonant activation in hybrid MgB2/I/Pb and MgB2/I/Sn Josephson heterojunctions.

Measured substructure in the energy gap of MgB2 and validated theoretical MgB2 models of Cohen and Louie

PI/Program Director, NSF-Drexel S-STEM Scholarship Program, funded at $460,000.00

2008 Allan Rothwarf Awardee for Teaching Excellence

Advisor, Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society Chapters

3. University of Maryland College Park Center for Superconductivity Research (Sept 1999 - Aug 2004)

Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Quantum Computing, in charge of six graduate students

Proposed and developed the Josephson Phase Qubit, measuring quantum coherence and entanglement between coupled qubits

4. University of Washington (Sept 1991 - Aug 1999)

Graduate Research Student

Measured liquid-vapor coexistence and critical temperatures in two-dimensional monolayer Helium 3/Helium 4 mixtures at 0.2 Kelvin

Measured desorption and binding energies in 2D helium films (bosonic 4He and fermionic 3He films)

Measured phase separation in Hydrogen-Deuterium monolayer mixtures using neutron scattering (CEA-Saclay, France)

5. University of the Philippines (Oct 1988 - Aug 1991)

Instructor of Physics and Associate Member, National Research Council of the Philippines.

Co-PI, UP Research Grant in Theoretical Path Integrals.

Taught large classes of Introductory Physics and Natural Science courses to university students and college teachers.

Calculated and published the Path-Integral formulation of ring-shaped topological defects, including the Aharonov-Bohm Effect.

Participant, Summer School in High Energy Physics, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

6. University of the Philippines (June 1983 - Sept 1988)

Undergraduate Researcher in Theoretical Physics (Thesis: A Review of Berry's Geometric Phase)

President, University of the Philippines Dept of Science and Technology Scholars Association

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