In 2016, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research project "Metric measure spaces and Ricci curvature - analytic, geometric, and probabilistic challenges" [REF].
Among his PhD students are Max-Konstatin von Renesse, Hendrik Weber, Nicola Juillet, Anca Bonciocat, Robert Philipowski, Martin Huesmann, Matthias Erbar, and Christian Ketterer.