He was Ramon y Cajal senior researcher at the University of Tarragona (Spain) in 2012-13, postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in 2010-11 and research scientist at the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation in Torino (Italy) in 2007-10. He obtained his Ph.D. in statistical physics from Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) in 2007. In 2014, he received the Junior Scientific Award from the Complex Systems Society. His research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation (including an Early Career Award) and the U.S. Army Research Office.