Puru Jena(Virginia Commonwealth University):He served as Program Director at the Materials Science Division of the National Science Foundation during 1986-87 and as Jefferson Science Fellow and Senior Science Advisor at the US Department of State during 200708
2005-present -Distinguished Professor of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
2007-2008 – Jefferson Science Fellow and Senior Science Advisor, US Department of State
1986-987- Program Director, Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation
1982-2005- Professor of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
1980-1982-Associate Professor of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University
1978-1980-Associate Professor of Physics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
1977-1978-Visiting Scientist, Argonne national Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
1975-1977-Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1973-1975-Research Associate in Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1971-1973-Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada