Prof. Dr. Karsten Mäder is the head of the Institute of Pharmacy at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. He studied Pharmacy at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1986 to 1990. After completing his Diploma and PhD at the same place, he was a DAAD Postdoc scholar at the Dartmouth Medical School (NH, USA) in 1994/1995. In 1996/1997, Prof. Dr. Karsten Mäder returned to the Humboldt University of Berlin and received a Habilitation scholarship from the German Research Foundation DFG. After Habilitation, he was a scientist at Philipps-University Marburg (1997/1998) and Free University Berlin (1998/2000). Prof. Dr. Karsten Mäder worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Switzerland from 2000 to 2003. Since 2003, he has been a Full Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His main research areas include polymer- and lipid-based nano-drug delivery systems, parenteral controlled release dosage forms, and the noninvasive in vitro and in vivo characterization of DDS. Prof. Dr. Karsten Mäder has received several awards, including the APV Research Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Scheele-award of the German Pharmaceutical Society, the Capsugel Award for Innovative Aspects in Controlled Drug Release, the Young Investigator Award of the International EPR society, the Phoenix award in pharmaceutics, and the best paper award of the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics.