Rob obtained his B.S. in Cell Biology/Biochemistry from Bucknell University in 1997. Following two years in Caltech‘s Biochemistry PhD program, he moved with his advisor, Barbara Imperiali to MIT in 1999. He received his PhD from MIT in 2003 in Biological Chemistry. Rob completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Ernst Bamberg at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since that time he has been in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he is currently Professor.