He holds a PhD in Statistics from the UCL University (Belgium). Before joining the UAE, he worked as a Senior Medical Statistician at the University of Oxford for 10 years. He was the Principal Statistician for the OPTIMA project and for the EXCEL study at DTU (University of Oxford). In October 2016, he received an award from the UAE University for excellence in research. He also received in February 2016, from the UAE University, a “Certificate of Achievement” for publishing in top 1% journals.