ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

HONORS

Awards and Honors 2019 Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Birmingham, UK 2019 Visiting Fellowship, Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK 2018 Mid-Career Award of the International Liquid Crystal Society (ILCS) 2018 Winner of the NASA iTech competition (as a leader of iFeather team of University of Colorado Boulder), Cycle II Energy 2018 Visiting Professor Fellowships of JSPS, Japan 2017 CNRC Chair, CNRS, University Paris-Sud, France 2017 “Paris Sciences Chair” Award, ESPCI Paris, France 2016 APS Fellow election, American Physical Society 2015-2016 GSoft Award for Soft Matter Research from the American Physical Society (APS) 2015 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship (USAF-SFFP) 2014 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany: http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/bessel-award.html 2013 Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award (http://science.energy.gov/early-career/ ) 2013 Visiting Fellowship of the Isaac Newton Institute (INI) for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK; INI Program "Mathematics of Liquid Crystals" 2012 Selected as a MSE fellow, University of Colorado 2011 Kavli Frontiers Fellow, Selected by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House 2010 Sigma Pi Sigma Favorite Professor selected by CU Physics Sigma Pi Sigma Student Chapter 2009 Selected as Founding Fellow of RASEI 2009 University of Colorado Energy Initiative Seed Grant award 2009 NSF CAREER Award  2008 University of Colorado JFDA award 2008 NSF-DARPA PTAP award 2008 University of Colorado Innovation Seed Grant award 2008 Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center Investigator 2008 ICAM-I2CAM fellowship (mentor-driven) 2007 International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) Grant 2006 Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society 2004-2006 ICAM (Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter) two-year Fellowship 2006 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) Conference organization grant from I2CAM for "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications", 2006 2005 Travel Fellowship of International Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter (IICAM) 2005 UNESCO "Bio-image" Grant and travel Fellowship 2005 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) The 2003 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering 2002 conference grant of American Physical Society "Opportunities in Biology for Physicists" The International Liquid Crystal Society 2002 MultiMedia Award The 2002 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering The 2002 Microscopy Society of America - Royal Microscopical Society Scholarship 2001 David B. Smith Fellowship (Kent State University) Focus on Microscopy FOM2001 Travel Scholarship 1998 International Science Foundation (G. Soros) Award recognizing outstanding research Professional achievements and service GSoft Awards Committee member, American Physical Society, 2016-2017 Chair of the 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, University of New England, Biddeford, ME Vice Chair of the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, University of New England, Biddeford, ME Co-organizer of the Symposium "Liquid Crystalline Materials—Displays and Beyond" at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting, March 28-April 1, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona Co-Chair of the Workshop "Plasmonics and its Applications," Boulder, Colorado, March 21-22, 2016 Invited Editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Organizer of the annual inter-continental advanced materials for photonics (I-CAMP) summer schools Co-organizer of the Frontiers of Soft Matter Symposium, Boulder, Colorado, May 16-18, 2012 Co-Chair of the I-CAMP'12 School in Boulder, Colorado, July 16 - August 11, 2012 Co-Chair, Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop on Liquid Crystal Colloids Chair of the I-CAMP'11 School, Argentina-Uruguay, May 28 - June 17, 2011 Co-Chair of the Metamaterials Workshop in Hangzhou, China, April, 2011 Chair of the I-CAMP 2010 summer school in Australia, June 20-July 10, 2010 Chair of the CIMOPV workshop in Brisbane, Australia, July 1-3, 2010 Chair of the Inter-continental advanced materials for photonics I-CAMP 2009 held in China, June 28-July 19 Chair of the Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop (PSSM09), June 22, Lviv, Ukraine: "PSSM-09" Chair of the LC2CAM conference (together with N. Clark), August 7-10, 2008 Program/organizing Committee member for the annual "Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies" Conference at the annual Photonics West symposia, San Francisco, CA Organizer and local coordinator of the CU-Boulder Branch of the International Institute for complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) Editorial Board Member of the international journal "Advances in Condensed Matter Physics" Advisor of the University of Colorado SPIE student chapter Advisor of the University of Colorado MRS student chapter Referee for Science, Nature, Procs. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physics Letters A, Applied Optics, J. Phys.: Cond. Matter, Nanoscale Research Letters, Europhys. Lett., European Phys. J. E, Nanotechnology, J. Mol. Liquids, Soft Matter, PLoS One, JSTAT, ACS Nano, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Advances in Cond. Matter Physics, Opto-Electronics Review, Sensors & Actuators B, Electrocemical and Solid State Letters (ESTL), J. Nanoscience Lett., and Langmuir Chair of the Soft Matter Oversight Committee of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter Instructor of the SPIE conference short courses (such as SC790 short course) on Liquid Crystals Member of the SPIE Regional Chapter Task Force Committee Instructor for the SPIE Traveling Lecturer Outreach Program Member of the Board of Governors of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM) Chair of the "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications" conference, Dayton, June 12-16, 2006 Member of the SPIE Scholarships and Grants Committee Program Committee member, Conference GL06-108, "Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications," 13-15 June 2006 Chair of the "Liquid Crystals in optics and Photonics" conference, Kent, OH, October 27-28, 2005 Organizer of the Outreach Day, Science Tours for high school students, and Career Workshop, Western Reserve Academy and Kent State Univ., OH, October 26-28, 2005 Organizing Committee member, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium GLPS2006, Dayton, OH, June 12-16, 2006 News and highlight articles about our research A highlight about our Science article written by C. Blanc, "Colloidal crystal ordering in a nematic liquid crystal,” Science 352, 40 (2016) Our research from the article by B. Senyuk et al. was highlighted on the Front Cover of the issue #45 (volume 11, 2015) of the Soft Matter Journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry Our Optics Express article [A. Martinez, I. I. Smalyukh "Light-driven dynamic Archimedes spirals and periodic oscillatory patterns of topological solitons in anisotropic soft matter."] was highlighted by F. Castles, "Spiralling solitons" in Liq. Crystal Today 24, 132 (2015) Our Soft Matter article by N. Petrit-Garrido et al. was featured on the front cover of November 7, 2014 journal issue #41 Our Physical Review Letters article by Campbell et al. is featured on the journal cover B. Verberck, “Knotty business,” Nature Phys. 10, 86 (2014) Our paper by Q. Liu, M.Campbell, J. Evans & I. Smalyukh in Advanced Materials is featured on the journal cover Our paper "Mutually tangled colloidal knots and induced defect loops in nematic fields." by Martinez et al. is featured on the cover of March 2014 issue of Nature Materials W.T.M. Irvine and D. Kleckner, “Liquid crystals: Tangled loops and knots,” Nature Mater. 13, 229 (2014) An image from our manuscript on Topography from topology is featured on the cover of Advanced Materials, Issue #41, November (2013) E. Terentjev, “Liquid crystals: Interplay of topologies,” Nature Mater. 12, 187 (2013) M. Ravnik, “Topology with Liquid Crystals,” in a Viewpoint of Physics 6, 65 (2013) R. Daw, “Topology matters,” Nature 493, 168 (2013): News & Views highlight of our article in Nature 493, 200-205 (2013) F. Castles, “Liquid crystal research highlights,” Liq. Cryst. Today 12, 81 (2012) J. N. A. Matthews, “Globetrotting school aims to fuse condensed matter and culture,” Phys. Today 66(9), 22 (2013) M. Bowick, “Defects and Design,” in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics, August 2013 T. Phillips, “Topological colloids,” A monthly magazine from the American Mathematical Society, February 2013 L. Snider, “Research by CU-Boulder physicists creates 'recipe book' for building new materials,” CU-Boulder press release, December 2012 Rachel Won, “Large-scale control,” Nature Photonics 6, 138 (2012): highlight of our PNAS article by A. Martinez et al. Our Optics Express article “Alignment of high-aspect ratio colloidal gold nanoplatelets in nematic liquid crystals,” was selected for the Journal of Applied Physics 110, 033535 (2011). Our research on colloidal self-assembly in liquid crystals is highlighted by the National Science Foundation. Ingo Dierking, “Editor's interview with Ivan Smalyukh,” Liquid Crystals Today 20, 116 (2011). Elizabeth Skwiot, “ICAM Members Honored by US President Barack Obama for Their Work,” ICAM news, August 2011. “PRESIDENT HONORS OUTSTANDING EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS,” White House Press Release, November 5, 2010. D. J. Broer, “Liquid crystals: Defects dictated,” Nature Materials 9, 99-100 (2010): a News and Views article about our paper published in the same issue [ Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010) ]. Narture Materials highlight [ Nature Materials 9, 2 (2010). ] about our article [C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, Science 326, 1083-1086 (2009) ]. Nature Photonics highlight [ Nature Photonics 4, 66 (2010) ] about our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010). “I-CAMP 09 tours China,” by Karie Friedman, ICAM News, October 2009. Our paper on alignment of bacteria is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. Nature Photonics, October 2008 issue, article by Rachel P.C. Won about the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder organized by Ivan Smalyukh: "View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals Glow". An article “Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example” by By Karie Friedman, ICAMNews, October 2008 issue: "Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example". Our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. CARS microscopy textures of liquid crystals from our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures are featured on the cover page of the latest issue of Optics Express, Volume 16, issue 14 Our paper on laser manipulation of defects is featured on the cover of Optics Express, Volume 15, issue 7 Research highlights on the web page of ICAM: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/?page_id=7 Cover page of the Physical Review Letters, Volume 96, issue 17; image of a liquid crystalline pattern formed by DNA from our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Bioinfo-online, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by ScienceDaily, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Medical News Today, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by WordPress.com, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by EurekAlert, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) was featured by the V.J. of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Issue 16 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Let. 90, 085503 (2003) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2003) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051703 (2002) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Volume 4, Issue 10 (2002) Phillip Espinasse, Liquid Crystal Imaging goes 3D, OE Magazine, May 2003, Page 6. Patricia E. Cladis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., A hard look at Soft Matter, 41 (18), 3505 (2002); see also Angew. Chem. 114 (18), 3655 (2002) Ingo Dierking, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy: Imaging Liquid Crystal Director Fields in Three Dimensions, CHEMPHYSCHEM 2, 663-664 (2001)

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