 In 1978 he graduated with a degree in Thermal Engineering.He then worked for a year as a Project Leader with the operation before returning to the Technological University where he was employed, in the first instance, as a Research Assistant, and then from 1983 till 1984 as a Development Engineer.In 1984 he received an engineering doctorate for work on "Vacuum Drying of Plastic Granules in a Rotating-drum Dryer in the presence of Inert Gas".