He received his B.A. in Biology from the University of Delaware in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Health from 2007-2010 and was an Assistant Professor at the Wistar Institute from 2010-2016. The Hensley laboratory studies mechanisms that promote antigenic drift of influenza viruses and factors that influence influenza vaccine responsiveness.