David G. Stroud

B. A. in Physics, Stanford University, 1964, with Distinction in Physics, Honors in Humanities, and Phi Beta Kappa.
M. A. in Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1966
Ph. D. in Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1969.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, 1969-71.
Assistant Professor of Physics, Ohio State University, 1971-76.
Associate Professor of Physics, Ohio State University, 1976-81.
Professor of Physics, Ohio State University, 1981-present

Physicist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, CA, June-August, 1965.
Visiting Fellow, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Sept. - Dec., 1977.
Visiting Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University, Spring, 1978
Visiting Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratories, Ridgefield, CT, 1982 and 1983.
Professeur Associe, University de Paris VI, Paris, Spring, 1985.
Visiting Scientist, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, January-March, 1996.

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991.
Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University, 1996.
NASA Commendation for Contributions to Experiment Flown on Orbiter ``Columbia,'' 1997.
Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards, 1997, 1999, and 2005 (from physics graduate students).

Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters (Condensed Matter Physics), 1998-2001.
Co-Organizer, Materials Research Society Symposium on Microscopic Simulations of the Surface Properties of Solids and Liquids, held as part of the national meeting of the Materials Research Society, Boston, MA, December, 1997.
Director, Summer School on Physics of Porous Media, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1987.
Member, International Advisory Committees, Conferences on Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media), Paris, 1988; Mexico, 1993; Moscow, 1996; Hong Kong, 1999; Utah, 2002.
Member, NASA Advisory Panel on Colloidal Suspensions, 1992.
Member, NASA Advisory Panel on Quantum Well Composites, 1992.
Member NSF Panel on Illinois Science and Technology Center on High-Temperature Superconductivity, 1988.
Co-Organizer, Midwest Solid State Theory Conference, 1979.
Co-Organizer, First Conference on Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM I), Columbus, 1977.
Corresponding Investigator, U.-S./Israel Binational Science Foundation Grant on Composite Media, with David J. Bergman, 1978-81 and 1984-2003.
Consultant periodically for Chevron Oil Field Research Company (La Habra, CA), Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH).

Optical Properties of granular media
Josephson junction arrays; applications of small Josephson junctions in quantum computing;
High-temperature superconductors, especially flux lattice melting and effects of inhomogeneities
Ab initio molecular dynamics studies of metals and semiconductors (especially in the liquid and amorphous state)