His focus is on applications in optical interconnects, microwave photonics, sensors, and biomedical imaging and spectroscopy. He received the M.Sc. degree in applied physics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. As a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist he worked at the COBRA Research Institute in Eindhoven, at the Laser Centre, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and at the University of California Santa Barbara. In these positions he explored all the major photonic integration technologies and their use in fields like satellite positioning, computer-communication and defense.