Alex graduated from Brandeis University in 2009 with a B.A. in both Classical Archaeology and Anthropology. He did his first fieldwork in Menorca, Spain from 2007-2009 and Rome, Italy in 2008. In 2010, Alex was introduced to regional jungle survey with the El Zotz Archaeological Project in Guatemala; and in 2011, he took part in the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat (SLAM) project and the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP). Alex worked with the Boston University team in Menorca as a survey specialist from 2012-2014, in and around the site of Torre D'en Galmes and Isla del Rey. Since 2013, Alex has also worked at the Nuragic site of S'Urachi in West Central Sardinia, carrying out small scale survey operations around the site. Alex also has worked with the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, NY, since 2012, where he helps run an archaeological outreach program and assists in the creation of a series of iBooks for budding archaeologists. His main research interests include the archaeology of Spain, the Iron Age in the Western Mediterranean, theories of colonization and imperialism, and archaeological outreach, as well as comparative methodologies of archaeological survey. Some of Alex's other interests include geographic information systems, geophysics, and industrial archaeology.