In 2000, Andreas Bach was awarded a PhD in chemistry from the University of Bern in Switzerland. Following his studies, he worked as a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry. In 2002, he accepted a position as a senior scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich. Here, he was appointed a lecturer in physical organic chemistry in 2007 where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses until 2017. From 2018 until present, Dr. A. Bach works as an Applications Specialist in Thermal Analysis at METTLER TOLEDO GmbH in Switzerland.