He received his PhD degree in physics from the same institution in 2007 and was then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg with a Von Humboldt fellowship. At present, his research interests include nano-optics and plasmonics, with special emphasis on mid-infrared group-IV plasmonics, linear and nonlinear properties of metal nanoantennas, and group-IV nanostructures working at the telecommunication wavelengths.