Amru is a postdoctoral associate at NIST, working with Dr. Jack Douglas and Prof. Francis Starr from Wesleyan University. His academic and research background includes obtaining doctoral and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the development of computational models and techniques to study the complex energy landscapes of different glassy systems. Before his time at Penn, he pursued a bachelor's degree at IIT Bombay, majoring in Chemical Engineering and minoring in Engineering Physics.