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Expert is a textbook author who is fully conversant with all aspects of high temperature superconductivity, from basic theory through fabrication techniques through device applications to economic analysis. He is currently serving as the principal technical adviser to a government R&D program on superconductivity.

Expert convened a review board to carry out peer evaluation for technology transfer projects at national laboratories. In only one month, he selected evaluation criteria, recruited panelists, arranged locale and support services, and helped researchers prepare, while still respecting the need to keep some information company confidential. This procedure was a "first" for the evaluation of technology transfer programs and it's description won the Lang-Rosen gold medal from the Technology Transfer Society.

He carried out a series of energy audits in industrial factories and calculated economic payback associated with introducing new energy saving technology. He used infrared thermography to quantitatively determine heat losses from furnaces, thereby convincing decision makers to invest in improvements.
Later, he recommended a broad range of energy management practices for southeastern European nations, which were transitioning from centrally-planned economies to free-market economies, where the cost of energy was being recognized for the first time. He showed the entire slate of proposed changes were cost-effective.

Expert holds a Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a creative scientist with exceptional ability to see hidden relationships. He is highly skilled in both theoretical and practical side of science, engineering, teaching and investment selection. Although his principal training is in condensed-matter physics, he is an experienced leader of successful innovative R&D teams that span many disciplines. Bridging between industry and academia has been a key feature of those activities.

He is the leading spokesman explaining principles of renewable energy systems (wind, solar, etc.) to the World Bank, the U.S. government, and others. He directed a team of 20 technical and business reviewers that evaluated proposals to the Department of Energy for cost-sharing projects to commercialize renewable energy systems. He insisted upon seeing real financial commitment from stockholders as the primary index to judge the quality of projects and devised a scoring system that optimized selection of $15,000,000 in contracts.

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Expert has prepared program plans ("roadmaps") for several aspects of the Department of Energy superconductivity program from 1990 to present day.He directed a team of experts that evaluated and priority-ranked a series of solar-energy plans and proposals submitted by companies to NREL in 1996.He evaluated the use of gadolinium isotopes as a "burnable poison" in controlling reactors, for U.S. Enrichment Corporation in 1993.He testified before the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission about industrial energy conservation in 1987.And he evaluated the feasibility of using a type of special container for low-level nuclear waste disposal, on behalf of a venture capital firm.