Evan is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in laser-based diagnostics and plasma transport studies. He received his PhD from the University of California–Davis in 2017, and has worked with diagnostics on the National Spherical Torus Experiment–Upgrade spherical tokamak in Princeton, New Jersey; the Wendelstein W-X stellarator in Greifswald, Germany; and the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak in Garching, Germany. He is currently working with the HSX Thomson scattering diagnostic and plasma transport studies using the ASTRA code.