After receiving his PhD degree in organic chemistry from Lund University in 2008 he continued with a post-doc in chemical biology of oligonucleotides at McGill University in Montreal 2008-2011. Richard then took up a position as researcher at Lund University before joining Red Glead Discovery in 2014. In 2019 he was appointed Associate Professor at Lund University. He has gather broad experience within research of biomolecules, such as peptides, carbohydrates, and oligonucleotides and is the co-author of 23 research articles and three patents. He is also co-supervisor of two PhD-student and a Post-doctoral fellow at Lund University.