He is interested in supernovae, compact objects, disk dynamics, plasma astrophysics, and turbulent star formation. He is originally from New York and earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 2005 from UCSB under the direction of Professor Lars Bildsten (Director and Permanent Member of the KITP). He then moved on to the Department of Astronomy at UC Berkeley as a Miller and TAC Fellow from 2005-2009. From 2009-2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at CITA. From 2011 onward, he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. University Relations, (515) 294-7958, online (at) iastate (dot) edu