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Professor Strauss received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Winona State University in 2016, where he conducted undergraduate research in the laboratories of Professors Francis Mann and Robert Koptizke. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2021 under the mentorship of Professor William Dichtel, where he was supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the International Institute for Nanotechnology’s Ryan Fellowship. After completing his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Professor Stephen Buchwald. Professor Strauss began his independent career in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in 2025.
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Independent research and teaching in chemistry.
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