Born in Slovakia, completed Masters in Applied Mechanics and Mathematics with distinction, moved to Portugal for Ph.D. program in Engineering Science, more precisely Structural Biomechanics, got the Marie Curie Fellowship for Experienced Researchers in France, moved to Japan for second post-doc developing Finite Element Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver, spent 8 months exploring the field of Computational Combustion in Saudi Arabia and then went back to Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University; currently an assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology.