He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne (EPFL), obtained an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University. He recently joined Clemson in 2014 from the DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) where he was a Principal Engineer in the Science and Technology Directorate and Program Manager for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Technologies.