M. Ski Krieger completed his undergraduate training in Physics and Classics at the University of Chicago, which is where he acquired a love of philology. After a brief stint in Crimea working for the Peace Corps he returned and did his doctoral work in theoretical soft-matter physics at Brown University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, where his work covers epidemiology, immunology, culture and language, and the origin of life.
