He is an experimental social psychologist interested in the causes and consequences of anger and aggression. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2007 and has received numerous awards: a DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, the Association for Psychological Science’s ‘Rising Star’ award, the Society for Australasian Social Psychology’s Early Career Researcher Award, and the NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award. He is an Academic Editor at PLOS ONE (an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the Public Library of Science).