[2] His dissertation was titled Using black hole x-ray binaries as laboratories for probing accretion disk theory in strong gravity.
[3] He was a postdoctoral fellow in the school of natural sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study from September 2006 to August 2010.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) from September 2010 to August 2012.
Davis was a senior research associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics from September 2012 to July 2014.
He joined the department of astronomy at University of Virginia in August 2014 as an assistant professor.