He received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a B.A. in Physics at the University of Virginia in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering also from the University of Virginia in 2010. From 2010-2013, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. In 2012, he sailed as faculty on Semester at Sea for the Engineering Maymester, short-term voyage through South and Central America. Dr. Moored joined the faculty at Lehigh University in 2013. His research interests are in bio-inspired propulsion, unsteady aerodynamics and fluid-structure interaction. He is currently a PI on an ONR MURI topic of non-traditional propulsion and he has recently received an NSF CAREER award for examining the fluid dynamic interactions among swimmers in a school.