Thomas Prohaska is chair for analytical and general chemistry at the Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. He studied technical chemistry at the Vienna University of Technology and received his PhD with summa cum laude in 1995. He became scientific researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna. BOKU in the same year to install a laboratory for elemental trace analysis. From 1998 to 2000 he was researcher at the EC joint research center IRMM in Geel, Belgium. He returned to the BOKU with a new focus on isotope research in 2000 and in 2004, he received the START award to setup a new research laboratory (VIRIS) for analytical ecogeochemistry.  He was associate professor at the BOKU from 2002-2018 before moving to Leoben. His research focus is based on elemental and isotopic analysis.