Daniel received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Neuroscience) and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college, he worked as a project coordinator with Jamil Zaki at the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, overseeing a large social network and well-being study. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Psychology and is interested in using computational neuroscience methods to study psychopathology and affective processes.