Michael Wächter studied mechanical engineering at Clausthal University of Technology. Since 2011, he has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for Plant Engineering and Fatigue Analysis (IMAB) at Clausthal University of Technology in the Structural Durability and System Behaviour department. He completed his doctorate "On the estimation of cyclic material parameters and damage-parameter-woehler-curves" in 2016. Since 2020, he has been head of the "Computational Simulation / Determination of Material Properties" field at IMAB.