Since 2025, he has held the position of Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Discrete Mathematics at Leipzig University, with an affiliation to the Max Planck Institute. He graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D. three years later.

He subsequently held positions at University of Warwick and Georgia Institute of Technology, followed by an appointment at Masaryk University. His research focuses on combinatorics and graph theory. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 research papers published in leading international journals.

He has been awarded all three types of European Research Council grants: an ERC Starting Grant (2010), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), and an ERC Advanced Grant (DYNAMITE – Structure and Randomness in Large Discrete Objects, 2022–2027).

Among other distinctions, he is a recipient of the EMS Prize (2012) and the Neuron Award for Young Scientists (2010). In 2025, he was appointed Extraordinary Professor in Leipzig.