David earned his PhD at Georgia Institute of Technology, performing research both as a synthetic and analytical chemist and added molecular and structural biology expertise as a post-doctoral fellow. After several years working in small technology-based companies, he returned to Georgia Tech to join the Fernández group to advance metabolomics and lipidomics research efforts. He is currently a senior research scientist in the lab investigating metabolomic profiling of biological systems to understand system perturbation, for example from exercise, injury, disease, or therapeutic administration. David also leads the metabolomic and lipidomic services available in System Mass Spectrometry Core at Georgia Tech.