studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from 2000 to 2005 and also attended courses in English literature and Indo-European studies at the LMU. He received his doctorate from TUM in 2009 with a thesis on neutrino radiation transport in stellar explosions that he did at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA). After his postdoctoral period at the MPA, he held positions at Queen's University Belfast and Monash University (Australia). He has been an Associate Professor at Monash University since 2021.