lesar@iastate.edu | Ames Laboratory

Richard LeSar

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2220C Hoover Hall

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011

Phone 515-294-1841
Fax 515-294-5444
Email lesar@iastate.edu

2006 - present Professor and Chair, Materials Science & Engineering Department, Iowa State University
2006 - present Associate Scientist, Ames Laboratory, Ames, IA
1993 - 2006 Technical Staff Member and various management positions, Los Alamos
1993 - 2006 Adjunct Professor, Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
1987 - 1997 Affiliate Faculty Member, Department of Physics, Colorado State University
1989 Visiting Scientist, FOM-Institut voor Atoom en Molecuulfysica, Amsterdam
1988 - 1989 Visiting Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer, University of Michigan
1984 Distinguished Visiting Scientist, National Research Council of Canada

2005 - present Member of the U. S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
2004 Co-Chair of the Gordon Conference on Physical Metallurgy
2001 - present Member of the Editorial Board of the Annual Reviews of Materials Research
1999 - 2002 Editor of Computational Materials Science, Elsevier Press
1995 Associated Western Universities (AWU) Department of Energy Distinguished Lecturer, “Grand Challenges in Computational Materials Science.”
1985 NATO Travel Award
1974 Gomberg Prize in Chemistry, University of Michigan
1974 James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan

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