I'm originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Places I have lived and worked before Fullerton include:

• Vancouver, BC, Canada - B.Sc. in Combined Honours Mathematics and Physics at the University of British Columbia.
• Milwaukee, WI, USA - Ph.D. in Physics in the Center for Gravitation and Cosmology at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
• Berlin, Germany - Postdoctoral Fellow in the Astrophysical Relativity group at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany.
• Oxford, Mississippi - Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Gravitation, Astrophysics, and Theoretical Physics group at Ole Miss (the University of Mississippi).