He received his Dipl.-Inform. degree in computer science in 1992 and Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering in 1997 from the Universit�t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. His laboratory applies computational and experimental approaches to gain insights into structure and function of tissues, cells and proteins of the normal and diseased heart. Current research foci are on confocal microscopic imaging of tissues, cells and proteins, computational modelling and experimental studies of electrical signalling in cardiac tissue, and modelling of ion channels and drug binding.