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Biographical Information
Office
Bateman Physical Sciences PSF 470
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-1504 USA
Home
256 East Louis Way
Tempe, AZ48864-3858
Tel: (480) 491-2549
Personal
Date of Birth: 12 March, 1944
Marital Status : Married 1967, two children
Citizenship: Dual Nationality (UK and USA)
Professional Experience
| 1997 -2003 |
University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University |
| 1980-1996 |
Professor, Physics & Astronomy Department, Michigan State University |
| 1976-1980 |
Associate Professor, Physics Department, Michigan State University |
| 1974-1977 |
Associate Professor, Department of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University |
| 1970-1974 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University |
| 1968-1970 |
Research Associate, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 1968 |
D.Phil., Oxford University |
| 1965-1968 |
Research in Solid State Theory, Department of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University |
| 1962-1965 |
B.Sc., (1st Class Honours) Theoretical Physics, at Manchester University |
Honors and Affiliations
General Series Editor, Fundamental Materials Research
[Published annually by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 1994 -]
D.Sc., Oxford University, 1993
Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 1989
Fellow of American Physical Society
Fellow of the British Institute of Physics
Member of the European Physical Society
Member of Sigma Xi and AAAS
Occasional Consultant
AERE, Harwell, England
Armstrong World Industries, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
ATT (Bell Laboratories), Murray Hill, New Jersey
Axon Technologies Corp., Phoenix, Arizona
Energy Conversion Devices, Detroit, Michigan
Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan
IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York
ILL, Grenoble, France
Mol F lex LLC, East Lansing, Michigan
NEC Institute, Princeton, New Jersey
NIST, Washington, D.C.
Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, California
Visiting Appointments
| Summer 2002 |
Visiting Professor,University of Paris VI, France. |
| Fall 1998 |
Distinguished University Lecturer, Delft Technical University, Holland. |
| Summer 1997 |
NATO visitor to University of Lancaster and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. |
| Fall 1996 |
Monash Professor, Faculty of Science, Monash University, Australia |
| Summer 1996 |
Yamada Foundation Visiting Professor at Osaka University, Japan |
| Summer 1993 |
Consultant at the NECI Institute, Princeton, New Jersey. |
| Summer 1992 |
Consultant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, (Washington, DC) |
| 1990 - 1995 |
Visiting Professor, Physics Department, University of Reading, England |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Sabbatical spent at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, (Washington, DC), Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago) and Ford Motor Company (Detroit). |
| Spring 1987 |
NATO visitor to University of Lancaster |
| Spring 1986 |
SERC Senior Visiting Fellowship at Imperial College, London |
| Summer 1984 |
Visiting Scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut |
| 1982 - 1983 |
Sabbatical spent in Oxford and Cambridge Universities
with SERC Senior Visiting Fellowship and Visiting Fellowship at New College, Oxford. |
| Summer 1982 |
Visiting Professorship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| Summer 1980 |
Summer Visitor, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Winter 1979 |
Visiting Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
| Summer 1979 |
Summer Visitor, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center |
| Summer 1978 |
Scientific Consultant, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble |
| 1978 |
Senior Visiting Fellowship from SRC. to spend six months at Oxford University |
| Summer 1977 |
Consultant at A.E.R.E. Harwell, England |
| Summer 1976 |
Summer Visitor, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center |
| Summer 1975 |
Scientific Consultant, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble |
| Summer 1974 |
Summer Faculty Program, IBM Research Labs., Yorktown Heights, New York |
| 1972 - 1973 |
Junior Faculty Fellowship from Yale University to spend one year at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart. |
| Summer 1972 |
Summer Visitor, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Summer 1971 |
Summer Visitor, University of Stuttgart |
| Summer 1965 |
Research Assistant at National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank, W.Virginia |
Books & Journals
Co-editor (with S.J.L. Billinge) of Beyond the Average Structure: From Semiconductors to Proteins (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2002)
Co-editor (with L. Tichy) of Properties & Applications of Amorphous Materials NATO-ASI series (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001)
Co-editor (with L. A. Kuhn) of Protein Flexibility & Folding (Elseviewr Science, Inc, 2001)
Co-editor (with P. M. Duxbury) of Rigidity Theory and Applications (Plenum Press, New York, 1998)
Co-editor (with S.J.L. Billinge) of Local Structure from Diffraction (Plenum Press, New York, 1997)
Co-editor (with M. I. Mitkova) of Amorphous Insulators & Semiconductors
Proceedings of NATO ASI (1996)
Co-editor (with T. J. Pinnavaia) of Access in Nanoporous Materials (Plenum Press, New York, 1996)
North American Editor, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (1995 - 1997)
Series editor Fundamental Materials Science , new series published by Kluvwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Co-editor (with A. Wright) of Amorphous Insulators (March 1995 issue of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids)
Editor of Excitations in Disordered Systems (Plenum Press, New York, 1982)
NATO Advanced Study Institute Series B78.
Patent
Patent # 6014449 issued in 2000 to M.F. Thorpe and D. J. Jacobs
Computer Implemented System for Analyzing Rigidity of Substructures within a Macromolecule
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