Anton Beck studied industrial engineering at the Vienna University of Technology with a focus on thermal energy systems. In his master's thesis, he conducted a numerical study on the charging and discharging behaviour of latent heat thermal energy storage systems with different fin tube geometries. From 2015 to 2018, he conducted his PhD thesis at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology with a focus on cost-efficient heat exchanger network synthesis for processes with changing energy demands and the integration of thermal energy storage. Since 2018, he has been a research engineer in the competence unit “Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems” at AIT where he specializes in the optimization of complex industrial energy systems.