He received his Ph.D. cum laude in 2013 from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Funded by an NWO-Veni grant (2013), he performed his postdoctoral research in the laboratories of Carl Figdor and Wilhelm Huck. Thereafter, he took a position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, to lead a new group in immunoengineering, with a focus on decoding cellular interactions by exploiting microscale tools.