Joe earned his B.A. in biological chemistry from Dartmouth College under the mentorship of Professor Ekaterina Pletneva, with whom he studied electron transfer proteins. He completed his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, in the laboratory of Professor John Arnold. At Berkeley, Joe investigated the bonding and reactivity of complexes bearing uranium-silicon and -germanium bonds, as well as the interactions of uranium with small molecules. Now advised by Professor Rebecca Abergel as a Hoffman Postdoctoral Fellow, Joe aims to develop signatures and protocols to safeguard materials relevant to advanced reactor fuel cycles.