Martin Tollinger received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Innsbruck. He then joined the laboratories of Julie D. Forman-Kay and Lewis E. Kay at the University of Toronto for a postdoc in NMR spectroscopy in the field of protein folding (1999-2003). A Schrödinger Return Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund enabled him to continue this work at the Max Perutz Lab in Vienna. After obtaining his venia docendi from the University of Vienna, he was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Innsbruck in 2012. Martin Tollinger's research interests lie in NMR spectroscopic studies of proteins and their interactions with RNA and low-molecular-weight ligands.