Career
Before joining Purdue University, he was a staff member in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory and worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar and Scientist at Caltech. He received a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1999. Professor Strachan"s research focuses on the development of predictive atomistic and molecular simulation methodologies to describe materials from first principles, their application to problems of technological importance and quantification of associated uncertainties.
Application areas of interest include: coupled electronic, thermal and mechanical processes in nano-electronics, Microelectromechanical Systems and energy conversion devices.
Thermo-mechanical response and chemistry of polymer composites and molecular solids as well as active materials including shape memory and high-energy density materials. Guest Editor with professors
Gerhard Klimeck and Mark Lundstrom of Special Issue to appear in Computing in Science and Engineering on "Cyber-enabled simulations in nanoscale science and engineering" March/April 2010. Site Lead and Chair of the Steering Committee, NCNPurdue Program, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, an National Science Foundation research and cyber-infrastructure center.
Developed nanoHUB-U course "From Atoms to Materials: Predictive Theories and Simulations", 2013.