Nick received his BS and MS degrees in neuroscience from Brandeis University. After a brief dip into the Bay Area tech scene, he returned to Boston to begin a PhD program in Network Science at Northeastern University and a research fellowship at BWH’s Channing Division of Network Medicine, before transferring to the MIT Media Lab graduate program. Nick, while in the Boyden lab, worked on topics ranging from connectomics to C. elegans expansion microscopy to library screening for protein-protein interactions, the latter in collaboration with George Church’s lab at Harvard. After receiving the PhD, he went on to a postdoc at Harvard.