In 1993, he joined as a research assistant and Ph.D. student the MANTRA Centre for Neuro-Mimetic Systems of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) were he was a member of Eric Vittoz' Analog VLSI for Perception Group. In 1998, he got his Ph.D. degree for the thesis entitled Analogue VLSI Emulation of the Cochlea
Since May 1998, he works as R&D engineer at the Swiss center for Electronics and MicroTechnology (CSEM) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland