He received his PhD in 2007 from the School of Physics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia for work in the field of time-resolved neutron scattering in ferroelectric materials. After which he spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher within the Structure of Materials group at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France. His current research is in the application of advanced neutron and X-ray scattering techniques for multi-length-scale investigations of electro-mechanical materials.