Dr. Hauser hails from New Jersey where he obtained a bachelor's degree at Rutgers. He received a PhD degree in physics from The Ohio State University in 2010. He won the California NanoSystems Institute’s Elings Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 2012 to 2015. In 2015 Dr. Hauser joined the faculty of the University of Alabama. Information about his research group can be found at http://hauserlab.ua.edu/