He received his PhD in 2001 from MIT, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington and at SLAC. He was the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and was a Sloan Foundation Fellow. Katz’s interests include application of quantum field theory and effective theory to Beyond the Standard Model physics and condensed matter systems. Presently he is focused on developing Hamiltonian truncation methods for studying non-perturbative phenomena in quantum field theory.