His laboratory is interested in applying state-of-the-art microfluidic technology to relevant problems in systems biology. After studying biology and chemistry in Fairleigh Dickinson University (Madison, NJ, USA) in 2001, he obtained his PhD in biochemistry and Molecular biophysics at the California Institute of Technology in 2007 by the supervision of Stephen Quake. Between 2005 and 2008 he was a research associate at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Stanford University. He holds the 1st place in the Innovator’s challenge of 2005 of the California Institute of Technology, UC Berkeley and Stanford University, as well as the Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Biotechnology or related fields, the best Caltech PhD thesis submitted in a give category.