Keutsch was born in
Tübingen, Germany. He studied chemistry at the
Technical University of Munich with a scholarship from the
German National Academic Foundation, receiving a diploma with Vladimir E. Bondybey. After graduating in 1997, Keutsch moved to the
University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2001. His supervisor was
Richard J. Saykally on high-resolution vibration-rotation-tunneling spectroscopy of
water clusters. Keutsch then went to
Harvard University as a postdoc, where he worked on stratospheric chemistry under the supervision of
James G. Anderson. Keutsch began his independent academic career in 2005 as an assistant professor at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently the Stonington Professor in Engineering and Atmospheric Science at
Harvard University. == Honors and awards ==