Dr. Strauss works in the bioscience division of Los Alamos National Laboratory on protein structure prediction. He is a Co-developer of the Rosetta protein structure prediction algorithm and the Mammoth rapid structure comparison algorithm. He received his doctorate from Cornell in 1990 in experimental molecular collision dynamics, and has a Bachelor’s degree from Caltech in Electrical Engineering. He has developed picosecond circular dichorism instrumentation and methods for the study of early events in protein folding. He holds patents in laser engineering and heterodyne imaging developed during his work on advance instrumentation for airborne Lidar chemical sensing systems. He discovered quantum resonances in the optical excitation of Two electrons and a Proton. And he compiled the first multi-year daily weather summary of another planet, mars, from in situ instrumentation. Recently, he has helped develop a new form of agent-based parallel optimization theory known as Probability Collectives.