He is a professor in chemistry at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and leads the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at the School of Basic Sciences.

He then joined the lab of Karsten Meyer at University of California, San Diego as PhD student and graduated with a thesis on "Metal complexes of tripodal N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: synthesis, structure, bonding, and reactivity.

[6] They aim at the development of catalysts that are made of Earth-abundant elements and that enable the chemical transformations important in synthesis, energy, and sustainability.

[7] They focus on base metal catalyzed organic synthesis,[8] electrochemical water splitting,[9] CO2 reduction,[10] fuel cell catalysis,[11] and the development of synthetic models for the active site of metalloenzymes.

In 2017, he was awarded with the National Latsis Prize by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the International Latsis Foundation,[13] the Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship for 2017,[6] and the Tajima Prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry.