Study of Chemistry at the University of Chicago, BSc in Chemistry (1995), PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge working on "Conformational Effects of Asparagine-Linked Glycosylation" in Barbara Imperiali's lab (2000), Professor at MIT (2003-2010), Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, United Kingdom (from 2011), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (since 2018).