Peter Huybers received a B.S. (1996) from the United States Military Academy at West Point. His subsequent military career included the training and leading of a tank platoon as part of peace-keeping operations in Bosnia. He went on to receive a Ph.D. (2004) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to complete an NOAA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2004-2006) at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Since 2007, he has been an assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University.