He received his BA and MA in Latin Philology from Lund University and his PhD from Stockholm University in Sweden. He has studied the medieval auxiliary sciences (palaeography, codicology, diplomatics, textual criticism and editorial technique) at the Vatican Library in Rome, and held research fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He is one of the founding members of the Ars edendi research program.