EDUCATION

- Ph.D. in Physics, May 1984; The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

- M.S. in Physics, November 1982; The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

- B.S. in Physics, June 1977; Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

- August 1993 to present, Professor of Physics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

- May 1990 to August 1993, Associate Professor of Physics; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale                          

- August 1986 to May 1990, Assistant Professor of Physics; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS

     a) Junior faculty mentoring

- Effectively mentored junior faculty members through the tenure-probationary period (advised them where to submit external proposals, critically read their research proposals, gave them suggestions for how to approach specific topics in courses they were teaching, gave advice regarding how to deal with graduate students, etc.). As a result, the first five cases for promotion that came from during my tenure as Chair were successful, the next two are positively going through the process at this time, and the remaining two are making steady positive progress.

 - During my tenure as Chair, junior faculty in the Department have received: four NSF CAREER awards, four other standard NSF awards, an award from the NIH, three Summer Fellowship awards from the Air Force, three awards from the Petroleum Research Fund, one from the Department of Energy, two from the Research Corporation, one from the Department of Defense and two from private companies.

One of the junior faculty hired during my chairmanship received a PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award in the Sciences and Engineering).

     b) Recruitment

- Successfully worked to promote diversity among the faculty of the Department. As a result, the Department has increased its number of Hispanic faculty (to three), has hired its first woman faculty member in the last three decades, and has hired its first black faculty member ever.

- Developed new strategies for obtaining graduate student applicants from a variety of source countries. As a result, in the past four years the Department received its first students from countries which were part of the former Soviet Union, and we are currently engaged in recruiting students from Latin America.

     c) Strategic Planning

-  Developed the first departmental strategic plan. The plan was approved by the faculty in the department.

- Conducted review and updating of the plan after major goals (e.g. the approval of the doctoral program in Applied Physics) were accomplished.

      d) Promoting Research

- Developed and successfully implemented policies to increase research activity in the Department. These policies include:

   - establishing workload assignment policies that favor the submittal of external proposals;

   - establishing a policy that returns 50 % of the departmental overhead recovery funds to the faculty members that generated them.

As a result, ten out of twelve faculty members are externally funded.

      e) Program Development

- Wrote a successful proposal for a Doctoral Program in Applied Physics. The doctoral program was approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education on February 1, 2005. It is now in operation, and has graduated its first two students. Graduate enrollment in Physics is at an all time high as a result of the implementation of this program.

       f) Department Organizational Structure

- Wrote the Operating Paper for the Department of Physics. This document was approved by the majority of the faculty in the Department, and was then approved by the Dean of the College, the Provost, and the Chancellor. This Operating Paper is currently in effect.

      g) Assessment

- Developed assessment plans for the Department’s Master’s, Bachelor’s and doctoral degree programs.

- Completed a comprehensive departmental productivity self-study and lead the Department through internal and external program evaluations. The previous departmental evaluation had been conducted in 1986.

      h) Course Development

- Participated in the development of a course in Integrated Science, a joint effort by faculty from the Colleges of Education and Science, designed to allow Education majors to fulfill the State of Illinois’ teaching certification requirements in science. Have taught that course three consecutive years, and wrote the Physics portion of the laboratory manual for it. 

- Lead departmental efforts to modernize one of the two Core Curriculum course offerings in the Department of Physics, including a complete updating of its laboratory.

Honors and Awards

- Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected in November of 2005

- Winner of the North Eastern Association of Graduate Schools Annual Book Award in the Natural Sciences and Engineering, 1985

- Winner of a Davey Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 1981

GRANTS

Current grants (Previous grants are listed in the full CV):

- Principal Investigator, with co-PI M. M. Calbi, “Polyatomic adsorbates on carbon nanotube bundles” (DMR-0705077), National Science Foundation, $330,000; from 07/01/07 to 06/30/10

 - Principal Investigator, with S. Talapatra, B. Dave, and K. Mondal, Equipment grant, “ASAP 2050 Xtended Pressure Sorption Analyzer”, Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, February 2009

Articles published since 2006

1. D. S. Rawat, L. Heroux, V. Krungleviciute, and A. D. Migone “Adsorption of Xenon on Purified HiPco Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Langmuir 22, 234-238 (2006).

2. L. Heroux, V. Krungleviciute, M. M. Calbi, and A. D. Migone “CF₄ on Carbon Nanotubes: physisorption on grooves and external surfaces”, J. Phys. Chem. B 110 12597-12602 (2006).

3. D. S. Rawat, N.Taylor, S. Talapatra, S. K. Dhali, P. M. Ajayan and A. D. Migone “Effect of Surface Cleaning and Functionalization of Nanotubes on Gas Adsorption”, Phys. Rev. B 74, 113403 (2006).

4. V. Krungleviciute, K. Lask, L. Heroux, A. D. Migone, J.-Y. Lee, J. Li, A. Skoulidas, “Argon adsorption on Cu₃(BTC)₂(H₂O)₃ (BTC=Benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate) metal-organic framework”, Langmuir,  23; 3106-3109 (2007).

5. D. Rawat and A. D. Migone, “Phases of Ethane adsorbed on purified HiPco single-walled carbon nanotubes” Phys. Rev. B 75, 195440-1-5 (2007).

6. Dinesh S. Rawat, M. Mercedes Calbi, Aldo D. Migone, “Equilibration Time: Kinetics of Gas adsorption on closed and open-ended Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, J. Phys. Chem. C., 1 12980-12986 (2007).

7. Krungleviciute, Vaiva; Calbi, Maria; Wagner, Jeff; Migone,  Aldo; Yudasaka, Masako; Iijima, Sumio, "Probing the structure of carbon nanohorn aggregates by adsorbing gases of different size " J. Phys. Chem. C 112 5742 -5746 (2008).

8. V. Krungleviciute, K. Lask, A. D. Migone, J.-Y. Lee, J. Li, "Kinetics and equilibrium of gas adsorption on RPM1-Co and Cu-BTC metal-organic frameworks: potential for gas separation applications", AIChE J. 54 918-923 (2008).

9. D. S Rawat; V. Krungleviciute; L. Heroux; M. Bulut; M. M. Calbi and A. D. Migone, “Dependence of single-walled carbon nanotubes’ adsorption kinetics on temperature and binding energy“, Langmuir 24 13465-13469 (2008).

10. V. Krungleviciute, A. D. Migone, M. Pepka, “Characterization of single-walled carbon nanohorns using neon adsorption isotherms”, Carbon 47, 769-774 (2009)

11. D. S. Rawat, T. Furuhashi and A. D. Migone, “Study of butane monolayer adsorbed on Single-walled carbon nanotubes”, Langmuir 25, 973-976 (2009)

12. D. S. Rawat, A. D. Migone, J. L. Riccardo, A. J. Ramirez-Pastor, F. J. Roma, “Surface Area Measurements with Linear Adsorbates: An Experimental Comparison of Different Theoretical Approaches”, Langmuir 25, 9227-9231 (2009)

Last Updated April 8, 2010