Benjamin Bernschütz received an Audio Engineering Diploma at SAE Cologne in 2003, a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Communications Engineering from TH Köln in 2007, a M.Sc. in Computer Science from TH Köln in 2009. He worked for several years as audio engineer, sound system engineer, and as research associate at the institute of communications systems at TH Köln in the field of acoustics, signal processing, and spatial audio technology. He received his doctoral degree in 2016 from Technical University of Berlin, Audio Communication Group.