Received his M.Sc. in communications engineering from the TU Darmstadt, Germany. After that, he joined the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute where he was involved in the design, fabrication and characterization of photonic integrated circuits for telecom applications. He also worked for Geiri GmbH as project manager in the development of optical sensors with application in high power networks. Currently, he is a senior application engineer at VPIphotonics GmbH.