His main research area is data structures, with an emphasis on lower bounds and range searching. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2013 from Aarhus University, where some of his most notable results include the strongest lower bounds to date in both the cell probe and group model of computation as well as the fastest data structures for several fundamental problems in the area of geometric range searching. During his Ph.D. studies he earned a number of awards, including the STOC'12 Best Paper and Best Student Paper Award, the FOCS'11 Best Student Paper Award, a Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship and the Danish Minister of Science's EliteResearch (EliteForsk) travel scholarship.