Emotions are intricately interwoven into every facet of our daily lives, from guiding simple value-based decisions to navigating complex and nuanced social interactions. As a neuroscientist, Jeremiah wants to understand how our brains generate and express emotional states and research why and how these processes go awry in disorders featuring emotional dysregulation. Unfortunately, studying these processes is a challenge for many reasons and not all these challenges come with straightforward solutions. His career thus far has been a bit unorthodox, mixing the development of tools and methodology with extensive experimentalism. He has used his background in neuroscience, engineering, and business to create a series of specialized positions in both academic and non-academic sectors to study both basic science questions and clinically relevant issues related to the neural basis of emotion. To that end, he currently works as a Staff Scientist in the Translational Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Minnesota, as a Research Consultant and Design Engineer at Gray Matter Research, and is exploring the neurotech startup world. His goal across all his positions is to make life easier for people, whether that is by developing tools to enable complex research projects or alleviate the symptoms of debilitating mental illnesses.