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Professor Robert M.
Strongin's major interests and expertise are in functional materials
design via physical organic and synthetic organic chemistry principles. He
specializes in the design and evaluation of new materials as selective
probes and chemosensors to address materials, bioorganic and biomedical
problems.
He earned his
doctorate in Organic Chemistry under the guidance of Professor Amos B.
Smith, III at the University of Pennsylvania where his graduate
research led to co-authorship of thirty peer-reviewed publications. After
earning his doctorate, he began his first faculty appointment at
Louisiana
State University where he was the Phillip
and Foymae Kelso West Distinguished Professor (1995-2006) and was named an
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator in 1998. He has won several other research
and teaching awards and established the LSU Initiative for Maximizing
Student Diversity (IMSD) Program for training underrepresented groups in
biomedical research. He moved to the Department of Chemistry at Portland State University in 2007.
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