He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Ulm, Germany in 2010. He then held a postdoctoral research position at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. After guest assistant professorships at the Technical University Munich, Germany and the University of Washington, USA, he joined the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo in 2014. His main research interests lie in copula modeling, computational statistics, data science and quantitative risk management.