Graham was born in 1985 in s-Gravendeel, a small village in the south-west of the Netherlands. He attended Leiden University where he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree (cum laude) under the supervision of Prof. Jan Reedijk. In 2008 he moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science to pursue his Ph.D. with Prof. Milko E. van der Boom, working on sequence-dependent assembly strategies and molecular logic. After his doctorate, Graham joined Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Theodor Agapie, working on multi-metallic complexes for small molecule activation. He returned to Israel in 2017 as a Horev and Azrieli Fellow to establish the De Ruiter Research Laboratory at the Technion.
