His laboratory focuses on membrane protein-lipid interactions, and how these interactions influence membrane protein structure and function. He received the Biochemistry Distinguished Dissertation Award for his doctoral work on structural studies of amyloid-related proteins in the laboratory of David Eisenberg at University of California Los Angeles. His postdoctoral work focused on ion mobility mass spectrometry of intact membrane protein complexes in the laboratory of Dame Carol V. Robinson at the University Oxford, and became a Nicholas Kurti Junior Research Fellow of Brasenose College.