The Wall Street Journal has hired Bob Henderson as a reporter covering financial markets.

Henderson has been a freelance journalist for the past seven years, focusing primarily on science and finance.

He previously worked at Barclays Capital as head of index, hybrids and exotics trading and at JPMorgan Chase as managing editor of commodity exotics trading, among other positions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electric engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of South California. He also has a master’s and a doctorate in physics from the University of Rochester.