Professor Steven graduated from New College of Florida in 2002 with a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia in 2006. He was an NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in Ken Houk's at UCLA before joining the faculty at Texas A&M in August, 2010. He moved to the University of Georgia in January, 2017, where he spends most of his time thinking deeply about stacking interactions.