He was elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy again as one out of the four in All Sciences elected that year. He supervised 18 PhD's of the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He mentored 30 post docs from different Countries. He had a number of very distinguished Professors and Researchers working and visiting him. He has published some 347 papers on Electronic Materials, liquid crystals and related instrumentation in high impact factor International Journals. These include papers in Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and four in the IEEE Transactions. More than 50% of the papers are published in the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics Journals. In addition, he and his group have presented some 250 papers at the various international conferences.