In 2000 he completed his Ph.D. in Visual Psychophysics, submitting a thesis ‘Estimating Time-To-Contact (TTC) from Retinal Flow: the Roles of Global and Local Expansion’. From 2006-2010 he was a Research Fellow at the Sensory Motor Neuroscience Centre, Behavioural Brain Science Centre of the University of Birmingham, UK where he conducted haptics research in the context of the European IMMERSENCE, FP6 Integrated Project.