Curriculum Vitae
- Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1979).
- Royal Society European Exchange Fellow, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud (1980-1981).
- IBM World Trade Fellow, IBM San Jose Research Laboratory (1982).
- Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California (since 1982).
- IBM Fellow (since 1999).
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (2007);
- Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University (2007);
- Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliou, Taiwan (2007);
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (2008);
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, World Class University Program, KAIST (2009);
- Honorary Professor, University College London, United Kingdom (2009).
- Honorary Doctorates: RWTH Aachen University (2007); Eindhoven University of Technology (2008); University of Regensburg (2011); Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (2013).
- Elected Fellow, The Royal Society, London (2000);
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (USA) (2008);
- Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA) (2009);
- Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2015).
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009);
- Honorary Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2012);
- Fellow, TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences (2012);
- Elected Fellow, The Royal Academy of Engineering (2019).
- Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, since April 2014.
- Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics since April 2014, Managing Director 2016-2020