From 2016 to 2018 he was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Materials and Structural Systems Division at NIST. His research interests focus on the development and use of advanced characterization techniques to study the micro- and nanostructure development in cementitious materials, including dissolution kinetics and reaction mechanisms of portland cement minerals. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015.