Alessandro Butté received his MSc. at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in chemical engineering. After a postdoc at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), he joined ETH Zurich as senior scientist. In 2008, he joined Lonza as head of downstream technologies in the small molecules and peptides sector and, later, as project manager. In 2013, he rejoined ETH as lecturer and, in 2017, he co-founded DataHow AG, where he is serving as CEO. He is the author of more than 90 papers on international peer-reviewed journals and several patents. In 2015, he completed an executive MBA at the University of St. Gallen.