Prior to his studies, Andreas Wachtel worked for nine years for the German company Siemens in Germany, México and the USA.

He started his Bachelor degree in 2007, and finished his Masters degree in applied mathematics in 2012 at the Technical university of Dresden (Germany).

Then, he went on to do his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Strathclyde (located in Glasgow, UK).

In December 2015 he finished this project, and found  a temporary job as a programmer at the Student Loans Company in England.

After that,  between  August and December 2016, he was a maths teacher in the Colegio alemán Alexander von Humboldt (in México).

Since January 2017, he is a professor for applied mathematics at the ITAM in the Departamento Académico de Matemáticas.

And as of, January 2018 he will be member of the  Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level I).