Fred Streitz holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and a B.S. in Physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He joined the Physics and Applied Technology Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1999 after an Assistant Professorship in Physics at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
Dr. Streitz is currently Group Leader for the Modeling and Simulations Group in H-Division at LLNL. He is active as both an experimentalist and a computational physicist, with research interests that include investigating the kinetics of phase transformations and measuring the dynamic response of materials at high pressure. Most recently he led the research team that was awarded the 2005 Gordon Bell Prize for creating the first science application to break the 100 TFlop/s barrier.