Thomas Bayer graduated in the Molecular Biology program from the University of Vienna and received his PhD in (Bio)organic Chemistry at the TU Wien (Austria) before joining the Bornscheuer group as a post-doctoral fellow. Thomas Bayer received the Erwin Schrödinger fellowship by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), which included scientific stays at the University of Greifswald (Germany) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City (USA) in 2019–2020. Since 2021, he works at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology at the TU Graz (Austria)