I'm a physics professor at Osaka Metropolitan University in Osaka, Japan. My research primarily focuses on dynamics, transport and resonance properties of open quantum systems as well as more general non-Hermitian physics (including PT-symmetric systems). I am originally from North Carolina and I did my Ph. D. at the University of Texas under the guidance of Tomio Petrosky. I did postdocs in Europe and Canada before coming to Japan on a JSPS fellowship in 2012. I took my current position in Osaka beginning in 2014.