Prof. Davis obtained his Master's and Ph.D from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 2003 and 2008, respectively, working on superfluid helium-3. Before this, he did his undergraduate degree in physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After his Ph.D. his post-doctoral research was in nanomagnetism and nanomechanics at the University of Alberta, where he was hired as a faculty member in October of 2010. He was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2013 and the Provost's Award for Early Achievement of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2014.