He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After receiving his doctorate in 1998, he moved to Madison, WI, to take a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, where he accepted a faculty position in 2003. He has had continuous NIH funding since 2002 and been the recipient of multiple NIMH grants, including an R01, K08, and K02. His work has been published in top journals in the field, including Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, and Cerebral Cortex.