He earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Harvey Mudd College in 1989 where he carried out undergraduate research in synthetic chemistry under the direction of Bill Daub. Doug attended graduate school at Penn State University, working in the areas of bioanalytical chemistry and neuroscience in the laboratory of Andy Ewing. After completing his Ph.D. in 1994, Doug accepted a postdoctoral position with Bruce Hammock, in the Departments of Entomology and Environmental Toxicology at UC Davis. In 1997 Doug started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 2004 he moved to LSU where his research program focuses on the development of new bioanalytical techniques to study enzyme inhibition and protein aggregation. He also studies electroosmotic flow dynamics and the immobilization of magnetic particles in capillaries and microfluidic devices.