His active duty military service ended in 1985, though he remained a reservist until 1994.
[3] Mobley taught at the University of California, San Francisco until 1997, when he returned to Stanford as a faculty member.
[4] In 1999, Mobley became the first holder of the John E. Cahill Family Professorship at Stanford.
[4] In 2009, Mobley began teaching at the University of California, San Diego.
[5] Mobley was granted fellowship by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.