Josh received his BSc in Physics from the University of Windsor in 2006. He went on to pursue a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Alberta, where he specialized in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and coherent electron sources,  which he completed in 2012. Wanting to learn something completely different, Josh joined the superconducting qubit group of John Martinis at UCSB in 2012. There he worked on quantum-limited amplifiers, contributing to the invention of the impedance matched parametric amplifier. Josh moved to Google along with much of the Martinis group in 2014 where among other things he lead the development of qubit compatible indium bump bonds. Recently, his research focus has shifted to the origins of loss and defects in superconducting qubits in order to develop the next generation of materials. This has brought him to Rigetti Computing, where he recently joined as Director of Quantum Materials.