Thomas Huber received his Diploma of Chemistry from the Technical University Munich and completed his PhD at ETH-Zurich. He has since held positions in physical chemistry at ETH-Zurich (1997), in the Supercomputer Facility at ANU (1998-2000), in the Department of Mathematics at UQ (2001-2005) and in the School of Molecular Bioscience at UQ (2006-2010). He moved to ANU as ARC Future Fellow (2010-2014) before being appointed Professor at the Research School of Chemistry.