Martin Brändle, a native of Berne, Switzerland, studied chemistry at the University of Berne and finished his studies there in 1994 with a PhD in physical chemistry. From 1995 till 1997 he was an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow in the Quantum Chemistry group of Professor Joachim Sauer, Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, where he worked in the field of zeolite catalysis. In another postdoc at ETH Zurich in the group of professor Reinhard Nesper at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry from 1997-99, he was active in computational chemistry on inorganic nanotubes. In 2000 he turned to the Information Centre as IT coordinator and was also engaged in developing e-learning content within the German BM...