Prior to arriving at Vassar, Brian Daly received the PhD. in Physics from Brown University and worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has been a member of the Physics and Astronomy Department at Vassar College since 2005. He is co-author of 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, and regularly presents his research at international conferences in physics and optics.