Nathaniel graduated from Williams College in 2017 after two years of precision spectroscopy research. Characteristically slow to pick up on geography, he took a one-year detour to Cambridge, UK, where he helped build an erbium BEC experiment in the Hadzibabic-Smith group, before finding his way to Cambridge, MA and joining the Doyle group in 2018. He occasionally wanders across the street to the music building, where he can be found playing the piano or bassoon.