He is a SNSF professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and director of the Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at its school of engineering.

He then joined Jürg Dual's Institute for Mechanical Systems at ETH Zurich as a PhD student and graduated in 2010 with a thesis on "Micromirrors for integrated tunable mid-infrared detectors and emitters.

"[5][4] In 2011, he went to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Ming C. Wu's Integrated Photonics Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley.

[1][2][3] The research interests of Quack's group include photonic micro- and Nanosystems Engineering for integrated transducers.

[11] Quack's research has been featured in several international news outlet's such as Inside Unmanned Systems,[12] Swissinfo,[13] Phys.org,[14] Bilan,[15] Laser Focus World,[16] and Enerzine.