 He continued his education at The Rockefeller University, earning a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior and Molecular Neurobehavior under Dr. Fernando Nottebohm in 1995.He continued his postdoctoral education at The Rockefeller University until 1998.Jarvis became an assistant and an adjunct assistant professor at The Rockefeller University in 1995 until 2002.He then was an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center until December 2016, when he returned to Rockefeller University, where he is a professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language.