He completed a degree in Electronics-Physics at the University of Neuchâtel in 1996. He was awarded a fellowship from the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences for a one year stay at the National Metrology Institute of Japan as a visiting scientist. He returned back to Switzerland to complete his PhD studies in microfluidics and nanotechnology at IBM Zurich Research Lab for which he was awarded a PhD by the University of Neuchâtel. He completed his post-doctoral research at IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 2005, he joined McGill University as assistant professor and moved to the McGill University and Genome Québec Innovation Centre in 2008. He currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Micro- and Nanobioengineering.