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 and intrinsically denatured proteins (1999-2003), funded by the Austrian Science Fund. A Schrödinger Return Fellowship enabled him to continue this work at the Max Perutz Lab in Vienna, where he obtained a venia docendi from the University of Vienna in 2010. After moving to the University of Innsbruck, he was appointed as Associate Professor in 2012. Martin Tollinger's research interests lie in NMR spectroscopic studies of proteins, ribonucleic acids and their interactions with one another.