Zach is Senior Editor in Books Research Publishing at Springer Nature in Heidelberg, Germany. He obtained his doctorate in materials science in 2012, working in the field of bulk metallic glasses. He joined Springer in 2018 after stints as a postdoctoral researcher at the German Aerospace Center and the Technical University of Munich.

His authors are broadly situated across applied physics and materials science, publishing everything from graduate-level textbooks to popular science titles aimed at a general audience.