June 28, 2006: Habilitation, Theoretical Physics, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Since March 2003: Professor,
The University of Sydney, School of Physics, Sydney, Australia, ARC
Federation Fellowship, awarded July 2002
March 1999 - Feb.2003: Senior
Research Associate and Visiting Scientist, Northwestern University,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Chicago USA, and Theory Department,
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
March 1998 - Feb. 1999:
Staff Scientist, Theory Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Oct. 1996 - Dec. 1997: Visiting
Scientist (on leave of absence from the FHI), Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center, Electronic Materials Laboratory, California, USA.
March 1995 - Sep. 1996: Staff
Scientist, Theory Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max Planck
Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Sep.1990 – Feb. 1995: Post-doc,
Theory Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft,
Berlin, Germany
Jan. 1987 – Sep. 1990: Ph.D,
La Trobe University, School of Physics, Melbourne, Australia
1986: Trainee
Actuary, National Mutual, Actuarial Department, Collins Street, Melbourne,
Australia
1982-1985: Bachelor
of Science, La Trobe University, School of Physics, Melbourne, Australia,
Hons. H1, David Myers University Medal (top mark the Honours (4th) year in the physical sciences), 3rd Year Prize in Physics, 3rd Year
Prize in Applied Mathematics
Invited talks at Conferences/Workshops
Invited seminars at Universites/Institutes
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal, Surface Science
Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Magnetism
and Magnetic Materials, from Jan. 2010
Member of the International Steering Committee of the
International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS)
Member of the Editorial Board of the new Journal
``Advanced Studies in Catalysis''
Member of the executive committee of the International Conference on
Magnetism (ICM), Seoul Korea, July 8-13, 2012
Member of the advisory committee for the Psi-k conference, Berlin,
Germany, 2010.
Member of the local organising committee, Mini-Workshop on Computational
Physics and Material Science: ``Progress in Computational Electronic
Structure Calculations'', Fudan University, China, 2010