Malte Kaspereit is head of the research group “Advanced Separation Processes”, located at the Institute for Separation Science and Technology at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). After studying process engineering at the Technical University of Clausthal (Germany), he worked for more than 10 years as (senior) researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg (Germany). He obtained his PhD and habilitation from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. His research is devoted to the development of efficient process solutions for challenging separation problems in the production of bulk and fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biological products. His particular focus is on preparative chromatography. Malte Kaspereit is a member of the SPICA executive committee, which organizes the renowned bi-annual “International Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied Techniques”.