I received my PhD (Physics) in 1988 from the University of British Columbia after completing my BASc (Engineering Physics) at Queen's University in 1984.

Following my PhD, I spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York where I continued on as an Assistant and Associate Professor. I moved to McMaster University in 1998.

I received the Brockhouse Medal from the Canadian Association of Physicists in 2019 and am a Fellow of the American Physical Society.