He is the leader of the MUSC Air Quality Exposure Lab and serves as principal investigator for an R00 awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that focuses on developing approaches to better understand and assess complex environmental exposures. Dr. Pearce has published work on exposure monitoring, modeling, and characterization. His long-term research goal is to pioneer methodologies that will lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of links between complex environmental exposure and human health. Dr. Pearce holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Science from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and completed his postdoctoral training in environmental biostatistics at Emory University in Atlanta, GA conducting research with the Southeastern Center for Air Pollution Epidemiology, a USEPA Clean Air Research Center.