Claudius is Zimbabwean and a French resident. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa following a BSc Honours in Biochemistry from the University of Zimbabwe.

Claudius has several years of international research experience in plant functional biology and seed physiology. In 2010, he joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as a postdoctoral fellow and in 2015, he joined the University of Cambridge as a research fellow in the department of biochemistry. In 2017, he received a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and joined the Laboratoire Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale at CEA in Grenoble, France. Since 2020, he was Researcher Seed Technology at Rijk Zwaan in the Netherlands.

Claudius joined Euroseeds in September 2021 as Technical Manager Plant Health and Seed Trade.