Graduaded with third class honours in July 2005 as a Master of Laws at the Brussels University VUB, with specialisation in criminal law.

In December 2006, he graduaded as a Master of Laws: International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict (LL.M.) at the University of Nottigham (United Kingdom), where he worked as a researcher for the Office of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

In 2007, he was a trainee at the third chamber of the UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (UN-ICTY).

Since September 2007, he is working as a lawyer.

After a first year of working as a trainee at the office of the President of the Bar Council, Van Eeckhaut, in Ghent, he completes his traineeship at Me De Man’s office, where he became a staff member as from September 2008.

In 2008, he was laureate of the annual pleading contest “Georges Debra” at the Bar of Ghent.

He especially takes an interest in criminal law.