Prior to this appointment, he completed a one-year research fellowship at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and a two-year post-doctoral stay at Linköpings Universitet. He holds a D.Sc. in Materials Science from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (2008), for which he was awarded the ETH medal, as well as an M.Sci. and B.A. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (2004). Currently, his research focuses on the use of polymer semiconductors in flexible electronic components such as thermoelectric generators and plastic solar cells.