He received his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney in 2007. He was appointed to the position of Sesqui Lecturer in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at The University of Sydney after completing his PhD. In 2008 he commenced the position of Clinical Physicist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA and became an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His research activities involve developing novel MR imaging techniques for investigation of human disease. Current focus areas include: breast, prostate, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and acute stroke MR imaging, as well as applications of MRI to radiotherapy treatment planning in cancer. He is also involved in investigating the role of neurotranmitters in neural transmission during brain activation and in pain management.