 Since 2017 he has been an adjunct professor at the Broken Bay Institute - The Australian Institute of Theological Education in Sydney, Australia  .His dissertation discussed the history of the appointment of bishops after the Council of Trent.He studied theology at the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen from 1999 to 2000 and was invited to work as a post-doctoral researcher in the Faculté de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses at the Université Laval, Québec, in spring 2002.