He received his BS in Astronomy and Physics in 2003 from the University of Washington, and his PhD in Physics in 2008 from Arizona State University. He was a postdoctoral research associate from 2008-2011 at Texas A&M University, and took a prize Hubble Fellowship in 2011 to the University of Texas at Austin, where he joined the faculty in 2012. He uses the world’s largest ground-based telescopes in concert with deep space-based imaging to discover and characterize the most distant galaxies in the universe.