He is also an asso­ciated faculty member in the Depart­ment of Molecular Biology. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins Univer­sity in Bio­chemistry and Bio­physics, and com­pleted post­doctoral research in the Depart­ment of Chemical Engineering at MIT, The White­head Insti­tute, and The Rocke­feller Univer­sity. His fields of research in­clude syn­thetic biology, meta­bolic en­gineering, protein en­gineering, sys­tems biology and struc­tural bio­logy. He has been honored with the NSF CAREER award, The Alfred P. Sloan Founda­tion Fellow­ship Award, and The Pew Scholar­ship, among other awards.