He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1998. His research interests include thermal management of electronics, thermoelectric effects and their application, transport in supercritical water, applied heat conduction, heat pipes and thermal design. He comes to Tufts from Bell Labs Ireland, where he was a co-manager and scientist in a 10-member research group. Prior to that, he was a member of the technical staff at Core Bell Laboratories, part of Lucent Technologies. He holds three patents, with 16 more pending.