Education and Employment
- University of Winnipeg (UWinnipeg): Professor of Physics
- UWinnipeg: Adjunct Professor of Applied Computer Science
- University of Manitoba: Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy
- UWinnipeg (2016-2023): Associate Professor of Physics
- UWinnipeg (2011-2016): Assistant Professor of Physics
- Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics: previously Director, Past Director, Director-Elect
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: Affilicate Member
- McGill University (2008-2011): Research Associate and Instructor in Physics
- McGill University (2006-2008): Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics
- California Institute of Technology (2003-2006): Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in Theoretical Physics
- University of California, Santa Barbara (2003): PhD in Physics
- Advisor: J. Polchinski, "Warped strings: Self-dual flux and contemporary compactifications."
- Wake Forest University (1998): BS with Honors in Physics and Mathematics, summa cum laude
- North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (1994): high school
Major Grants, Awards, and Honors
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant 2012-2031 (with Early Career Researcher Supplement 2012-2015)
- UWinnipeg Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship 2025
- Outstanding Referee Award, APS Journals
- Institute of Particle Physics/Perimeter Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowship, McGill 2006-2008
- John A. McCone Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech 2003-2006
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 1998-2001
- Broida Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara 1998-2000
- Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Outstanding designation 1996
- Reynolds Scholarship, full merit scholarship, Wake Forest University 1994-1998
- International Physics Olympiad, Bronze medal (15th place) 1994
Professional Service
- Peer referee for Canadian Journal of Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, EPL, European Physics Journal C, International Journal of Modern Physics A, Journal of High Energy Physics, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Physical Review D, Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B
- External grant referee for NSERC, US National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, CONICYT Chile, FWO Belgium, Scientific Foundation Ireland
- Local organizing committee for 2016 annual meeting
of the Canadian Astronomical Society, hosted by UManitoba
- Local organizing committee chair for 15th
Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics 2014
Statistics
- 67 Seminars, colloquia, and conference presentations
- 25 Public lectures and media appearances
- 4 Conference proceedings and theses (some refereed)
- 54 Refereed journal articles (over 1950 citations, h-index 26)
- 1 Postdoctoral scholar supervised
- 4 PhD theses supervised
- 5 MSc theses supervised
- 12 Undergraduate honours theses supervised
- 34 Undergraduate research projects (typically summer) supervised
- 4 High-school internship projects supervised