Was named one of the top 37 U․S․ scientists under 36 by Smithsonian magazine in 2007
Won the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the most prestigious award for young scientists in Germany, in 2004
Graduated from Emory University with a degree in psychology and anthropology in 1998 and earned his Ph․D․ in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 2004
Quote: "I remember as a kid, people would say, 'You love animals so much that you should be a veterinarian․' I thought, 'I'm not interested in that part of their insides․' I wanted to know how they think and why they behave the way they behave․"
Associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center
Best known as the co-founder of Dognition․com who hosted the miniseries "Is Your Dog a Genius?"
Co-wrote the book "The Genius of Dogs" with Vanessa Woods in 2013