His research interests are in the areas of team knowledge emergence and decision making, emergent leadership, team cohesion, and modeling multilevel dynamics. His work currently appears in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and Psychological Methods. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Organizational Research Methods and as a reviewer for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, and the National Science Foundation. He is the recipient of the 2015 Owens Scholarly Achievement Award as well as the 2013 Organizational Research Method Best Paper Award. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University (2006) and his M.A. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) from Michigan State University.