He obtained a BSc degree from the University of Melbourne in 2008, and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Newcastle in 2013. As a graduate student, he won the B. H. Neumann prize for the best student talk at the Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society. He does research in special functions, number theory, and experimental mathematics; in particular, he has been interested in uniform random walks, elliptic integrals, and Ramanujan-type mathematics. He has coauthored the book "Lattice Sums Then and Now", published by Cambridge University Press.