​Dan earned his Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 2014 where he focused on (a) identifying student difficulties with fluid dynamics and (b) revealing student reasoning by using resource graphs and in-the-moment productivity. After graduation, Dan spent 3 years at Gustavus Adolphus College (in St. Peter, Minnesota) in a teaching post-doc position where he developed a rigorous curriculum for their general physics course and had the chance to create a course of his own design (namely: how to win game shows using ideas from mathematics and physics). After Gustavus, Dan spent 6 years as a teaching professor at the University of North Carolina where he learned how to effectively run large lecture sections and modify the introductory curriculum to admit more biological examples. Dan is thrilled to have been hired by the University of Delaware and hopes that he can both continue his research into fluids with his new colleagues and update his course on games shows so that it can eventually become a part of the Delaware curriculum.​​