Martin Brändle (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7752-6567), 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 Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Information Centre of ETH Zurich as IT coordinator. In an after-diploma study in information and documentation at HTW Chur he graduated as information specialist in 2002. As deputy head of the Information Centre he was responsible for teaching chemical information, development of information systems using visualization, and as a subject specialist. Since 2014, he works as IT specialist at University of Zurich, where he is responsible for administration and development of its publication repository ZORA, the journal platform HOPE, the University’s Open Access Monitor, and other initiatives in Open Publishing.