Benjamin is a native of Wisconsin, where he attended UW Madison for his B.S. and M.S in Kinesiology. Although Ben has been nearly all over the world since, when it comes to anything related to artisan cheeses or showing goats, his true Wisconsin roots come out. Ben moved to the Bay Area to complete his PhD in Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley.  It was at Berkeley where Ben developed an expertise in using stable isotopes to measure metabolic flux and biosynthetic processes in vivo, pioneering the development of the lactate clamp. Ben then moved overseas to complete a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Sports Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, where he and his extensive bicycle collection fit right in.