After earning a PhD degree from the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) in 2009, he spent three years in Boston as Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University. He was also the 2010-2011 Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include the economics of intellectual property, the mobility of scientists across countries, and collaboration in science.