He received his PhD from Brock University (Ontario, Canada) in 2014 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Graz, Institute of Molecular Biosciences (Graz, Austria). Following Graz Drew was a postdoctoral research associate in the Biology and Soft Matter Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Department of Physics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN, USA). Dr. Marquardt's research focuses on biological membrane mimetic systems, including membrane structure and dynamics, and lipid/small molecule interactions.