Ryan completed his B. A. in Physics and in Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. As an undergraduate, he conducted research on transition edge sensors for detection of neutrinoless double beta decay with the experiment CUPID. During his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, he studied the direct detection of dark matter using noble gases. His work with the LZ experiment, a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber, helped to establish unprecedented dark matter sensitivity. He also investigated superfluid helium as a detection medium for low mass dark matter. In 2021, Ryan became a fellow of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium, which supported the remainder of his Ph.D. With this support, Ryan built a prototype neutron detector based on scintillation of pressurized helium gas with silicon photomultiplier read-out. Ryan looks forward to researching spin systems for quantum sensing with Prof. Ashok Ajoy as a Hoffman Postdoctoral Fellow.