He received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley in 2008. He has also worked at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2011) and at the Institute for Advanced Study as both a Member (2011-2012) and a Junior Visiting Professor (2015-2016). He has also been the recipient of an NSF CAREER award. David’s research is focused on developing new nonperturbative methods for quantum field theory, with applications to particle physics, condensed matter physics, and quantum gravity.