Dr. Bruce Strauss

Dr. Bruce Strauss is presently a private consultant with clients at major physics laboratories and corporations.  He spends considerable time as an officer with the IEEE Council on Superconductivity.

He was previously a Physicist/Program Manager for the United States Department of Energy’s R&D on upgrades for the LHC Accelerator Project covering applications of advanced superconducting magnets. As a member of the Office of High Energy Physics at DOE, he is responsible for their superconductivity wire and magnet activities. He received his undergraduate and doctoral education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Chicago.

Following early experience at the Avco Everett Research Laboratory and at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.  At Fermilab, he rose to the rank of Assistant Director of the Tevatron Project. He was responsible for the procurement scheme for the entire superconductor inventory for that project.

He left Fermilab to join the Magnetic Corporation of America where he served as production manager for superconducting wire and magnet fabrication. Subsequently he was the principal of two management-consulting organizations. Clients included government agencies, national laboratories and industrial concerns. A significant consulting contribution was to Management and Administration Branch of the DOE for the Independent Cost Estimation (ICE) process for all of the technical components, installation and commissioning for the Superconducting Super Collider.

Dr. Strauss is an incorporator of the Applied Superconductivity Conference, Inc. now the Applied Superconductivity Education Foundation where he presently serves as the corporate treasurer as well as a member of several technical committees. He is also Past-President of the IEEE Technical Council on Superconductivity. He is a fellow of the IEEE and was named a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Swerdlow Award for contributions to Superconductivity. He has been the chair of the MT-20, MT-23 and 2010 Applied Superconductivity Conferences.

Dr. Strauss is a member of Sigma Xi and Eta Kappa Nu.

Dr. Strauss has published over 150 peer reviewed papers and is the holder of five U. S. patents.