Armando has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Zurich. His particular background is in conflict research and social simulation. Armando came to George Mason University in early 2009 after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Policy Modelling in Manchester, UK. Before that he worked as a doctoral researcher at the Swiss Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and as a teaching assistant at the University of Zurich. Currently, Armando is the principal investigator of a project on studying irregular warfare using multi-agent simulation.