Hans-Joachim Hübschmann graduated from the Technical University, Berlin, Germany, with a doctorate in food chemistry. He began his career in diagnostics and medical analytical instruments before working for a number of German companies in gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. In 2003 he rejoined Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen, as a product marketing manager, moving to the US company in Austin, Texas, in his current capacity as a technology manager two years later.