He obtained an S.B. degree at MIT (2004) and a Ph.D. degree at Caltech (2010) before conducting research as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (2010-2012). Since 2012, his independent career at UIC has focused on developing new organometallic species for applications in sustainable chemical synthesis, modeling of bioinorganic systems, and now for natural products characterization.