He has been a conference chair at international conferences, and has served as editor for the international journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells for 10 years. He has recently invented and developed an educational teaching kit that allows environmental science and policy to be taught to undergraduates and graduate students. His academic interests lie in conveying and describing the practical applications and implications of physical chemistry, solar conversion, renewable energy, biological science, and materials science and engineering. He has published over a dozen scholarly papers and conference articles on subjects in the areas of materials science, biology - inspired molecular engineering, and renewable energy. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Solar Energy Society, and the American Chemical Society.
Good science is extremely important as an international currency.