His PhD thesis from 2012 on Quadrilateral Surface Mesh Generation for Animation and Simulation was awarded the EUROGRAPHICS Best Ph.D. Thesis Award and in May 2016 he received the EUROGRAPHICS Young Researcher Award. Currently he is leading the Mesh Generation and Optimization group, which scientifically contributes to the areas of geometry processing, in particular direction fields, parametrization and quad/hex mesh generation, and nonlinear/mixed-integer optimization.