David Strubbe is an associate professor of physics and chair of the physics PhD program at the University of California, Merced and has been using and developing in nanoHUB since 2008. He was a postdoc in materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 2012 in the research group of Steven G. Louie at the Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, and was an NSF and Nano-IGERT fellow. He received his M.A. in physics, UC Berkeley, December 2007, and B.S. in chemistry and physics, University of Chicago, June 2005. He has received the NSF CAREER award and the Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.