Dr. Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes is currently a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt in Germany. He earned his Diploma in Chemistry at the Georg August University of Göttingen (Germany) in 1991 and his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from the same university, working with Prof. Manfred Eigen at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In his thesis, he investigated the mechanism of gene regulation by the cAMP receptor using biophysical methods. After completing his PhD, Dr. Meyer-Almes worked as a scientist with the biotech start-up Evotec for 7 years. His last position was head of Research and Development in the subsidiary Evotec Analytical in Düsseldorf. Then, he accepted a position as laboratory head in the lead finding unit at Bayer Healthcare AG, where he worked for 3 years. The main areas of his research are the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein–ligand interactions as well as drug design.