Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He received his PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia in 2002. After several years as a as a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France he joined the faculty at JCVI in 2007. In 2013 he assumed a faculty position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.