As APM at Glenn Research Center Dr. Struk is responsible for GRC's aircraft icing research including the High Ice Water Content and remote sensing flight campaigns utilizing NASA's S-3B aircraft. Dr. Struk is an airline transport rated pilot and flight instructor with over 1800 hours of flight experience including over 1000 hours of instruction given. He has co-piloted NASA's DHC-6 "Twin-Otter" turboprop aircraft in support of various icing research missions including the Super Large Droplet (SLD) icing flight hazards. Dr Struk is type rated in a Learjet Model 25 turbojet aircraft and supported NASA high-altitude solar cell calibration flights.

Previous to joining the IIFD team, Dr. Struk spent the majority of his career in the Space Processes and Experiments Division of GRC where he has lead research activities in both basic and applied research supporting NASA's new space exploration missions. His work has spanned a diverse area from fundamental physical processes in fluids, combustion, and reacting systems to applied research in soldering and developing an electronics repair capability for future space flight crews. As part of NASA's microgravity program, Dr. Struk worked on a variety of experiment looking at low-gravity effects utilizing drop towers, aircraft, and spacecraft.

Dr. Struk received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Case Western University.