He received his B.B.A. in International Management from the International University in Germany and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from INSEAD. Prior to joining Rice University, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he received the Faculty Impact Award for teaching excellence. More recently, he was selected by Poets & Quants as one of the world’s 40 best business school professors under the age of 40.