 Since 2008 Skinner was a vice-chair and in 2014 he was the chair of American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry.While at the University of Chicago, Skinner actively participated in the University of Chicago-Argonne National Laboratory partnership by serving on the advisory board of the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials in 2016.Since 2015 he is an active member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Welch Foundation.