He obtained his Ph.D. in population genetics in 2008 at Uppsala University with affiliation to Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2009, he took a postdoctoral position at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University and has established his own laboratory in this department. In 2016, he received the European Research Council (ERC) Staring Grant. His research focuses on somatic mosaicism and its importance for the risk of various human diseases, with special interest and focus on mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood cells.