A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Rogalski received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2002. Since leaving Michigan, he has been a C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During 2002-2003, while on leave from MIT, he spent the year at the University of Washington. At Michigan, Dr. Rogalski won a number of awards for his thesis research, including the Sumner Myers Award and the Wirt and Mary Cornwell Prize. He has also received a prestigious Clay Liftoff Fellowship (Summer 2002) and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-2005). He also has a Masters degree in music performance.