His research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications to mathematical physics. After completing his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Lund University in Sweden in 2006, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2006-2007) and as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK (2007-2009). Before joining the Baylor faculty in 2010, he spent one year (2009-2010) at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Germany.