He leads an interdisciplinary team to develop novel technologies to define the mechanisms by which microbes interact with and manipulate their environment. The ultimate goal of his research is to engineer these interactions to control microbial pathophysiology and ecology. He completed Ph.D. in Biophysics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Tuominen, followed by postdoctoral training in Microbiology with Dr. Derek Lovley. He has received the Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award in 2016, Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award in 2015 and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface in 2014.