Studied Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at the Universities of Bari (Italy) and Tübingen (Germany) from 1998 to 2005. He obtained a diploma in Mathematics in September 2005. He completed his PhD studies at the University of Ulm (2005-2008). He obtained his PhD degree in June 2008. Since May 2008 he is a PostDoc at the BCCN Freiburg.