After having received a master's degree in engineering mathematics at Lund University and finished an internship at NVIDIA, Pontus became an industrial PhD student at the company, supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program. He is supervised by Tomas Akenine-Möller and he is affiliated to Lund University, where his supervisors are Kalle Åström and Magnus Oskarsson.

His research interests span computer graphics, image analysis, and human perception. Currently, his research is in image quality assessment. Previously, he has been working on high frame rate rendering.