He is a member of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute that he joined in 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow. He studied computer science and applied mathematics in Grenoble, France and obtained his PhD in 2002 from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany for his work on topological methods in vector and tensor visualization. His current research focuses on the structural analysis and effective visual representation of large-scale scientific data in applications including cardiovascular research, neuroscience, computational fluid dynamics, and fusion research.