 from Calvin College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994.He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute for Molecular Dynamics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA for two years prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1996.He was named a Gutgsell Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in 2006.