After completing his PhD in Exoplanet atmospheres at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (France) in 2009, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard College Observatory (USA) to work on NASA’s Kepler mission, and became a Carl Sagan fellow at Caltech (USA). In 2013, he went on an Assistant Professor position at the University of Colorado Boulder (USA) before joining the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy in 2015. He is a NWO-TOPII and ERC Starting Grant Laureate.