He then moved to the United States in 1978 to pursue his Ph.D at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning his doctorate degree in mathematics in 1981.
[2] Having returned to America, Struppa accepted a professorship at George Mason University, where he founded a research center for the application of mathematics and served as director of it.
[1] In 2019, Struppa refused to take down two The Birth of a Nation posters[5] at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University.
[11] He is also the co-author of more than ten books, including The Mathematics of Superoscillations, with Chapman physicists Yakir Aharonov and Jeff Tollaksen.
[4] Struppa is married to Lisa Sparks, who is the founding Dean of the School of Communication and the Foster and Mary McGaw Endowed Professor at Chapman University.