Miles completed his bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 2019 at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Pos, working on heavy metal transport systems in bacteria. Having completed his master's degree with a thesis on ER-organelle membrane contact sites in 2022 in the Stolz lab at the IBC2, Miles started his Ph.D. with Ivan Dikic the same year, studying the action of newly discovered and annotated microproteins in autophagy.