He holds a M.Sc. in Epidemiology from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has been involved in research related to the pathophysiology of hypertension and to the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases and obesity at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is currently a PhD student in epidemiology in the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health of McGill University, under the supervision of Dr. Gilles Paradis. His current research focuses on body size, growth, and blood pressure in children and adolescents.