Christopher Leighton

Mayon Chair holder, 2001-2006; Shell Chair holder, 2007-; Graduate Faculty in Physics, 2004-; University of Minnesota. McKnight Presidential fellow, 2007-2010.

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) conference Program Chair for 2010 meeting. Member, MMM conference Advisory Committee (2008-2011). Member, MMM Program Committee (2005-). Organizer, APS March Meeting Focus Topic (10 sessions), “Complex Multi-functional Oxides” (March 2006). Abstract sorter, APS March Meeting (March 2006). Member, executive committee, APS Topical Group on Magnetism (GMAG) (2005 –). Member, executive committee, MN chapter of the AVS (2006 –). Faculty mentor of the MN student chapter of the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2004 – present). Faculty mentor of the MN student chapter of the Material Advantage (2006 –). Conference session chair for APS, MMM, MRS, AVS and other national and international meetings/workshops (2001-). NIST Center for Neutron Research beamtime proposal reviewer (2004 –). Member, Proposal Review Committee of the Oak Ridge National Lab Center for Nanophase Materials Science (2006 –). Member, Proposal Review Committee of the Argonne National Lab Center for Nanophase Materials (2006 –)Member, Proposal Review Committee of the Los Alamos National Lab Neutron Science Center (2006 – present). Panelist and reviewer for NSF, DOE BES, and the ACS PRF. Referee for approximately 15 leading journals in Physics and Materials Science. Supervisor of over 20 UROP, REU, and directed research undergraduate research students at UMN (2001 –). Creator and administrator of the UMN Undergraduate Materials Research Travel Fund (2003 – present). Presenter at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development Annual Meeting, St Paul, MN (June 2007). Co-organizer and volunteer for the UMN involvement in the MRS sponsored “Strange Matter” exhibit at the Science Museum of MN (Spring 2006).