Mark is a postdoc in the Tabor group. He is from Ann Arbor, MI and graduated from Amherst College in 2016 with degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics, writing a thesis on the application of discrete variable representations to the argon-vinyl chloride weakly bound complex supervised by Mark Marshall. After working for Wolfram Research for a year, he went to the University of Washington to get his Ph.D in Chemistry with Anne McCoy, defending in the spring of 2022, focussing on reduced dimensional models and developing approaches to vibrational perturbation theory. He then did a postdoc with Ned Sibert at the University of Wisconsin from August 2022 to July 2024, working, among other things, on applications of distributed Gaussian basis sets to computing vibrational spectra from molecular dynamics simulations.

His research in the Tabor group is primarily on the fundamental physics of mechanochemical systems and the development of toolkits for molecular discovery, with a current focus on discovering novel metastable photoacids.