Couch’s research focuses on understanding the mechanism of core-collapse supernova explosions, primarily through large-scale numerical simulation. He is also interested in multidimensional stellar evolution as well as methods and algorithms for extreme-scale computing. Couch received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at MSU in June 2015.