Robert Stroud

Career After obtaining his PhD, he was offered a position at University of Oxford in the department headed by David Chilton Phillips, though the position's start date was to commence after a year. He undertook a postdoctoral appointment at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He enjoyed Caltech and was appointed as an instructor and ultimately declined the position at Oxford. He became an assistant professor of chemistry in 1973, associate professor in 1975. In 1976 was hired at the University of California, San Francisco to help establish a program in structural biology. At UCSF he used the Pacific electric ray, a model organism, to research the acetylcholine receptor that enables rapid signaling in the nervous system. Stroud has published over 360 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Awards and honors Stroud was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 in the Biophysics and Computational Biology section. He was the 3rd DeWitt Stetten Lecturer of the National Institutes of Health in 1984. He was elected President of the Biophysical Society of the US in 1988. In 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine UK. Stroud was elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1995. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He received the Hans Neurath Award of the Protein Society US in 2008, the Anatrace award of the Biophysical Society in 2009. In 2014 he was the 8th C.B.Anfinson Memorial Lecturer at the Weitzmann Institute. In 2015 he presented the Inaugural lecture, Indian Microbiology Society, New Delhi, India. In 2018 he was elected the UCSF Lecturer in Basic Science. In 2019 he was the Keynote speaker at the Annual Conference of the World Molecular Engineering Network, Cabo San Lucas Mexico.

Personal life Stroud is an avid windsurfer over four decades. He has an interest in music and playing stringed instruments; his father taught him how to play his first instrument, the banjo. He plays with bands including 'Robert Stroud and the Jailbirds', and 'The Twelve Pound Head'. While attending Cambridge University, Stroud competed in the Cambridge University swimming team and played on its water polo team. In 1990 he played with a water polo team winning a bronze medal in the Nike World Games.