He additionally has affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, the School of Neuroscience, and the Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center. He earned B.S. degrees in physics and applied mathematics from the University of Rochester in 2002, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Cornell University in 2007 and 2008 respectively. Prior to joining the Virginia Tech faculty in 2012, Dr. Verbridge carried out postdoctoral work jointly in the departments of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Cornell.