Teaching and scholarly positions Strassler was a member at the
Institute for Advanced Study in 2002. From 2000 until 2002 he taught at the
University of Pennsylvania, and then moved to the
University of Washington, where he stayed until 2007. He then worked at
Rutgers University until 2013. In 2013 he was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and in 2015, was an associate in the Department of Physics.
Scholarly publications Strassler's scholarly publications has ranked
h-index of 44 as of May 2024 according to
INSPIRE-HEP and of 51 according to
Google Scholar. His publication, "
Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: duality cascades and χSB-resolution of naked singularities", co-written with
Igor Klebanov for the
Journal of High Energy Physics in 2000, developed the cascading gauge theory. His particle physics article "Echoes of a hidden valley at hadron colliders" (2006), co-written with
Kathryn Zurek, appeared in
Physics Letters B.
Science writing Strassler's physics-oriented blog,
Of Particular Significance, often includes reality-checks on mainstream media coverage of physics news. He has written for such outlets as the
New Scientist. His book
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean was published in March 2024, by
Basic Books. ==Accolades==