After obtaining a joint PhD in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science with Dana Ballard and Mary Hayhoe at the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester in 2008, he started a postdoc at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) working with Jochen Triesch in the theoretical neuroscience group. In 2009 he started as a lecturer at the Goethe University, Frankfurt and since 2010 he is the principal investigator of the 'beliefs, representations, and actions group' at FIAS. After a year as a substitute professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University Osnabrück he is now an associate professor for 'psychology of information processing' in the department of psychology at the Technical University Darmstadt.