He received a B.Sc. degree in Chemical Physics from University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He was then named a Kavli Fellow at the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science where he completed his postdoctoral work studying how electrons lose their energy in a 2D material called graphene. He developed new techniques enabling him to resolve electrons in these materials on the timescales of femtoseconds (10-15 s) with sub-micron (<10-6 m) spatial resolution. He is continuing a similar research direction at OSU by building the Micro-Femto Energetics (mfE) Lab in Weniger Hall. In the mfE Lab, optical and photocurrent signals will be time-resolved to optimize the energy production of emerging materials.