He finished his Ph.D. on the Philistine material culture of the Iron Age IIA in 2006 at Bar-Ilan University and was a post-doctorate fellow at the Semitic Museum in Harvard University and a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 2009, together with Dr. Joe Uziel, he initiated the Tel Burna Excavation Project. Since then he has served as the project’s director. He has extensive experience in field archaeology from different periods. For the last 15 years he has served as an area supervisor for the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project.